Profile avatar
cagraham.bsky.social
Historian and author of Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause: Confessions of a Southern Church. A Clodhopper from North Carolina, forced to live on the mountain of conceit, Richmond, Va. Museums are not neutral.
976 posts 1,779 followers 278 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 27 Comments 22

""I don't think the great harm of slavery was the involuntary servitude and the forced labor and all of the cruelty. I think the great harm of slavery was the narrative that we created to justify enslavement."--Bryan Stevenson kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/trump-cuts...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Dr. Luther Porter Jackson (b. 1892) historian & civil rights leader, founded the Virginia League of Voters, wrote a weekly column “Rights and Duties in a Democracy,” challenged segregation in Richmond & produced outstanding scholarship at Virginia State University in the 1920s, 30s & 40s.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Team: As my colleagues alluded to last week, @rrchnm.bsky.social was hit hard by the recent DODGE NEH grant terminations. These actions have hindered -- but will not stop -- our mission to democratize access to history for the public's benefit. Learn what was cut in the release below.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic is asking the public to help them track changes the Trump Admin is making to history-- in national parks, websites, wherever. Please share-- and please contribute! thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

George III didn't unilaterally impose taxes on the colonies without Parliament. We weren't represented there of course and that was the sticking point, but still it wasn't being done by unilateral executive power alone. It's not as bad as the Revolution's central grievance, it's worse.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Seen in Richmond

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

If the conservative project wasn’t entirely intellectually bankrupt you might expect to see meaningful pushback on this from Virginia’s seemingly endless supply of “war buff” boomers, being as how one of the programs cut is digitization of WWII military records.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

“The second album”—Today marks the anniversary of Reckoning’s UK release: April 9, 1984. Which track is your go-to from the band’s sophomore release?

submitted 4 days ago • 245 comments

🤬

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

April 7, 1775: A meeting of the committee of Chesterfield County, Va., resolves to promote the manufacturing of homespun cloth to assist the boycott of British goods. John Brown of Norfolk and Capt. Sampson of the ship Elizabeth are both named and shamed for their Loyalism.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

@luvbourbon.bsky.social has my proxy on this one.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

From today’s anti-Trump protest in Boston:

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Looks good

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Surprised that Nimitz Library carries my book (digital, via EBSCO) and disappointed that it hasn't been yanked.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

What I mean is that the George Washington statue in the background on the Virginia Capitol grounds (1850s) was also the site at which the 1863 Richmond Bread Riot originated, and also a bunch of 2020 BLM protest marches. (Featured, also, is the gust of pollen haze.)

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Be still my RevWar/CivilWar/anti-maga heart.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Now leaving the Anthropocene and entering the Fafocene.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Many, many, many things are breaking my heart, but as a former administrative assistant for graduate students in history and museum studies, this hits home hard. I wasn't a professor, but I felt so very proud of them and have kept up with many as they moved into their careers. I loved "my" students.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I can't believe I ever mocked the 19th century for having a panic every 20 years.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 came from some states insisting that captured fugitives be granted due process before rendition. The Slave Power DID NOT like that. In Virginia, Lincoln's suggestion that fugitives be granted due process convinced its leadership to just up and secede.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I like this website

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Yesterday, the entire staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services were put on administrative leave. AASLH is in conversation with the American Alliance of Museums and other museum associations about legal options to challenge this action. Read more at tinyurl.com/5ah8axrp.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

🫡

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

This (Figures, since I posted it a few days ago.)

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

🤐

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

One of the reasons I resist comparing Trump and MAGA to the Confederacy is that in doing so we distance ourselves from the extent to which their core beliefs have resonated throughout our history. It encourages a myth that these ideas are not part of our political culture. 🗃️

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

Rev. Russell has a cameo in my book.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments