Chris Graham, Birthright Citizen
@cagraham
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.
I’ve never read the Odyssey but it’s true about the DNA. Just finished this book and I immediately recognized the several Odyssey references.
In fact, I’m just getting back from the funeral of my uncle John Graham, my dad’s youngest brother and the last of his generation and the last of his kind—a genuinely good man. RIP Uncle John.
August Willich, legendary capital-C Communist and general in the United States Army who used Prussian tactics to beat the shit out of some Texans at Rowlett's Station disagrees with the White House.
Hey! That’s the old RevWar gallery in my museum. School groups LOVE to run by it and git the buttons that make the cannons go BOOM. Anyhow, the new gallery is opening on Saturday. Come on down to the South Carolina State Museum and say hi.
My pup's hobby has long been to eat my hands, even if I'm still alive.
We Claude Akins-stans are a bit on edge until we hear your verdict
Incredible thread. This is the earliest one I remember that I had.
When the star of my dissertation was on her death bed in 1846, her husband recorded things in his diary. He actually never remarried, which is a bit of a surprise.
This paint roller, but to the tune of Wings of a Dove www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSu3...
When I first came to work in Richmond in 2016 I went to Beth's exhibit at Diversity Thrift with lots of playful reinterpretations of the city's monuments. I knew this was the place for me 'Momma Beth' Marschak is remembered as one of Richmond's original activists www.richmonder.org/momma-beth-m...
This is the ideal male body type. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
Everyone knows about George Washington's false teeth, but few know that his primary motivation for fighting for American independence was the pursuit of life, liberty, and FRESH BREATH.
historians have doubts about whether the moment depicted actually happened.
Just read in this book that Benjamin Franklin Randolph is buried real close to where I am now, so obviously, I ran over there immediately.
QRP with the doctor you'd trust leading the hantavirus response instead of RFK Jr.:
Just thinking about these two. I often think about these two... real relationship goals here.