Stephanie McCurry
@smccurry3
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Professor at Columbia University, Historian of the South, Author of Confederate Reckoning; Masters of Small Worlds. Burgeoning #twitterstorian . Mom.
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My campus, my neighborhood- Columbia under police control today - sacrificing everything a university stands for to satisfy a bunch of right wing politicians.
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It’s out! What the statues commemorate. The history of the CSA in 1000 words. The Confederacy Wasn't What You Think - The Atlantic
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I wrote a book about this. Check it out. Confederate Reckoning. Seriously. All these subjects.
The thing about the Confederacy that gets overlooked is what a shitty country it was in general. They had no freedom of speech, and thousands were arrested on suspicion of Union sympathies. Within a year of forming there were riots over food shortages.
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This is like professors insisting on giving a lecture on a snow day or the wed before Thanksgiving. Just shut up and vote.
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A must read. I find this personally painful. There is so little real understanding of what wealth and privilege mean for those who don’t have it in the academy. I have it now but didn’t when I had to make my way. Solidarity first gens!
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Wrote an article about the Confederacy last week. Hate mail still coming. One guy cc’d the chair of my department. Guess he thinks the Chair can fire me. The takeaway: they are nasty on the way down. Watch out friends.
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If you want to know what the Confederacy actually was - “a proslavery anti-democratic state, dedicated to the proposition that all men were NOT created equal”- you can always read my book.
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Omg Columbia FINALLY acknowledged we have to go online for Fall. As little as two weeks ago they tried to convince faculty to do in person classes. All that work for nothing. Leadership?
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CNN Rep commentator saying radical Republicans impeachment of Andrew Johnson seen as a big mistake. What is he talking about?
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Bloody Sunday- 50 years ago and the pain and loss hits hard still. We left 5 months later. My dad trailing round the embassies till someone took us. Never wanted to go. The utter violence - raw military power - and no proper acknowledgement yet.
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FUCK!!! Amy Comey Barrett shoved through. Feel sick. This is democracy in America? These people will pay. Expand or reform the Court, abolish the Electoral College, recalculate the Senate. The slaveholders’ insurance policies have to go.
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Sec. 9 (4). ‘No bill of attainder or ex post facto law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed”. Anything else you need receipts on?
Dr. McCurry:Can you please cite the article of the CSA Constitution that explicitly denied the right of a State within the Confederacy to abolish slavery? Conversely, can you cite the article of the 1860 US Constitution that granted the US government the right to abolish slavery?
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Just finished copy editing this. Will be out in the world soon. Pretty no?
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Among everything else ongoing at Columbia tonight - 1 K police massed on campus - word now that the President and administration have requested police presence on campus through May 17 th.
That is itself a massive provocation. What is going on here?!
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Medal to the journalist who called out that question: “ how many of your staff are sick Mr President?” “ Are you a superspreader Mr President?” Talk about not controlling the image😂
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I can’t read that Douthat op ed NYT. I was raised Catholic in an anti- contraception and anti- abortion culture and saw the wreckage in the lives of girls and the profoundly different social trajectories of that generation of boys and girls. Is that what they want? Clearly Yes
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I have been given an unexpected gift in life - grown kids in the same city as me. Cannot believe my luck. Great craic too those two.
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Hard to sleep with a police helicopter over your ( Columbia University) apartment. Ominous sign to go with the letter the President sent to faculty tonight. Midnight deadline for students to accept administration terms and dismantle encampment. More hard ball tactics.
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Twitter friends. In case your are interested. My first network news appearance. Was so nervous.
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Well name them after Black Southerners then. People who fought aginst slavery and the Confederacy and not vs the U.S. Like Robert Smalls for example. You know, Senator, That South.
Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, says an amendment to remove the names of Confederate leaders from military property "picks on the South unfairly"
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Today I lost my mother , Margaret McCurry. 1934-2019. She died on my dad’s birthday so they are together again. RIP Nan and Pa.
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Look don’t be a condescending prick. I know that very well. Which was my pt. They built an explicitly proslavery nation state. Which is why that article is in the constitution of that state - the CSA.
This, ladies and gentlemen, from an Ivy League professor "expert on the South" who does not know that Article I, Section 9 of the CSA Const. (just as in the US Const) applies only to the general government of the CSA and not the States.
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Yawn.The regular whine about how we don’t do military history anymore. Companion to the equally regular post- feminism piece. I just wrote a book about war. But hey - who cares what women say. Max Hastings: U.S. Universities Declare War on Military History
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All this reporting on military personnel and veterans involved in the Jan 6 storming of the capitol. Ask
@kathleen_belew
if she is surprised. Read her book. Is chilling on this.
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He was a writer. And his role in the Ken Burns documentary was to provide the old military history of the war/lost cause narrative. I found it intolerable not least bc Burns relied on this and him (Foote) to hold the plot together.
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Does a large police presence in their neighborhood make anyone feel safer? Certainly not me. Outside Columbia today.
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Very honored to be recognized today with the Josephine Miles Award from PEN Oakland for my book Women’s War, along with other amazing writers. Many many thanks.
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I tell them right off the bat that bias is high school history term. Its a derogatory term. That instead we identify ( and value) the perspective - and ask what can I know from this source and what can I not.
Do y'all see a lot of students reacting to readings with a noticeable preoccupation with what they (consistently) call "bias"? Is this something particular?
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Well this is great. An article on how historians rank Trump in presidency. All men. ( well Doris Kearns Goodwin). Lets go home girls. History apparently not our game. via
@NYTimes
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I am getting high blood pressure seeing all these men talking to other men about the history of slavery and capitalism. Literally. Might have to get off twitter for a while.
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My review of Kidada Williams’ powerful new book. It hits you hard.
@KidadaEWilliams
. During Reconstruction, a brutal ‘war on freedom’
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I researched and wrote 3 books. It’s how I know these things to start with.
@smccurry3
so I read your piece in The Atlantic and started thinking about all of that time spent writing those 2 books, Confederate Reckoning and Women's War, when you could have just put this out there. Gosh!!! You PhD's and your overkill!
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Getting immortalized at the Cullman Center at NYPL. What a wonderful year it’s been.
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Biden vs Sanders. That is our choice? Two old white guys. I am sorry - something is seriously wrong with Dem politics.
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I’ll be on
@alivelshi
tonight at 8:45 talking about Confederate monuments and what they mean. Hope you can watch.
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Just made myself read that Bret Stephens’ 1619 column in NYT. I mean who asked him anyway and what knowledge does he have to share? None. Just wants to knock his colleagues whose “ambition” and success annoy him. What a prick.
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What obit does not mention: This man was the gentlest, most generous soul. Such a loss. RIP Stan and thank you. via
@NYTimes
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Standing with our grad students as they fight for a new fair contract. CU too slow to bargain with them. This strike is the price.
#CUonStrike
Day 4 of
#CUonStrike
and
@Columbia
still refuses to offer
@GWCUAW
a fair contract even though other so-called peer institutions have agreements w/their grad student workers. I guess this means we're not a "peer institution" after all
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Everytime I teach the 14th amendment I cover the defeat of sex as a grounds of discrimination in the debate. Even in 1868 the constitution recognized no women’s rights. Originalism is just hatred of women and respecting slaveholders’ values. And don’t tell me to ‘just vote’ 😡
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First question I got at my first paper presentation at the Southern Historical Association was “are you married?” In public, from a white older man historian- and this bc he didn’t buy my argument about the relevance of class and gender.
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Ray, Trump lawyer, on Johnson impeachment, quoting Edmund Ross. Nice pick. His vote was bought and he collected. And Profiles in Courage ? With a straight face?
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Some amazing news in here for me! A Cullman fellowship at the NYPL temple at Bryant Park. Can’t wait. Congrats to all my fellow fellows also.
👋 Meet the new
@CullmanNYPL
Fellows:
@SethAnziska
, Deborah Lutz,
@smccurry3
, Sara McDougall, Suleiman Osman,
@CaoilinnHughes
,
@amitavakumar
,
@_catherinelacey
,
@jessbruder
,
@mollycrabapple
,
@lancerichardson
, Brenda Wineapple,
@Nic_Sealey
&
@yasmineseale
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Seeing the symbols of the Confederacy and its hateful white supremacist nationalism targeted is the most hopeful I have felt in months. We all know what they represent. It’s a moment of reckoning on many fronts including this. Tear them down.
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There are so many incredible articles by historians in the major newspapers today that they might as well be history magazines. I am so excited and proud to see all my colleagues out there showing their stuff. For starters
@marthasjones
@KeishaBlain
@TeraWHunter
@agordonreed
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There is no daylight between us historians on this. I made this point and quoted the source in my article in The Nation posted today.
This is a lie.
The framers said that EVERY impeachment would be partisan, so the Senate should proceed with wisdom.
Read Federalist 65, folks.
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OMG CNN (with a male reporter) trying to explain why white women stormed the capitol. It’s as if they never ever heard a word of women’s history before today. For C’s sake. This is so pathetic. Ask any of us.
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It’s exactly the same naive commitment to our ‘ideals’ that powered her 1000 page history of the US. I reviewed it for TLS expressing my impatience at this pointless way of thinking about the past. Historian Jill Lepore On How We Arrived at This Moment
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Perhaps bc of my sense of outrage I have been thinking a lot about John C Calhoun and his insistence on ‘minority’ rights to limit and undermine popular democracy. Repubs now openly organized behind principle of white minority rule. Slaveholders’ constitution and Senate still.
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Me. Am I an idiot?
Who among you does *not* have a reference manager (e.g., Endnote, Bibtex, Zotero etc) but just compiles your references manually for each thing you write?
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Have to say I am so glad Ted Cruz got to make his pathetic speech before shit kicked off. We have tape.
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Old strategy. Create the disorder you claim to be controlling. Saw that in secession campaigns in 1860. Militias everywhere.
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Just finished reading
@agordonreed
Juneteenth. Was very moved by this little book. Loved the mix of history and memoir. We should all do more of this. Thank you.
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Look I have to say this about Andrew Cuomo. You either are a decent man/ person or you are not. The lines weren’t redrawn. Women were just more able to put a limit on the bullshit. We have memories too - and by ‘we’ I mean women who had to deal with these guys for decades.
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Bret Stephens NYT on Statues is just a waste of space. White men’s mediocrity time is running out.
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I just walk around saying to myself “I am so tired.” Just me?
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Fully endorse. Faculty governance is more crucial than ever.
A statement by our faculty at Columbia and Barnard. More to come. I am behind every word.
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Weird question. Why does Kayley McEneny always dress like she is going to a cocktail party? Is there some kind of right wing female dress code?
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I am trying to summon the rage I felt watching the Kavanaugh hearings. But all I feel today is despair. In the grip of a misogynist right wing racist court - this is where we are. Justices stripping women of control over their own bodies and futures - in 2022.
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No women’s right to terminate a pregnancy? Then I call for MANDATORY PATERNITY tests and make the results public like maternity is. We don’t get pregnant on her own. Personal responsibility right?
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Sitting in LaGuardia ( in a mask) delayed since 11 am. Trying to get to Charleston to GO TO THE ARCHIVES. Ahh the joys of travel.
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Here is one easy thing the Biden administration cd do to help young people and level the playing field - Ban unpaid internships. This is pure exploitation and amplifies class and racial privilege. Who’s with me?
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This violence at the Capitol is incited by the President of the US. Difficult even to process that. ... Much much worse even than when Vigilantes paraded with arms outside the South Carolina secession convention to encourage treason inside.
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A state’s right to hold persons as slaves - yes
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I loved your article. Would add only that if people want to know about how enslaved women fought for emancioation read Glymph above all, but also Murrell Taylor , Hunter, me, Schwalm and many more.
Read McPherson, read Foner, read Berlin, read Hahn, read Fields, read Sinha, etc. Simply glance through the scholarship and you’ll quickly see that answer to “who freed the slaves” is “the slaves did.”
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Saoirse McCurry Hahn. Well launched. Wash U. Magna cum laude. History and American Culture Studies. Proud mom.
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My debut in the Irish Times. So happy to be published there.
Stephanie McCurry: “What I fear most is that the political conflict could easily descend into violence. My perspective as a Belfast-born US historian isn’t reassuring. This could be Belfast in 1968 – or South Carolina circa 1868-1876.”
@smccurry3
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I just listened to that Trump call. The arc is classic - fake reasonableness, escalating to bullying, and then personal belittling. And the volume increases throughout. He must have talked for 95% of the call. No wonder his father sent him to military school. Out of control.
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So excited to find my book on this list. Drew Faust’s intellectual generosity is legendary. Five Books on the Civil War | Five Books Expert Recommendations
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RIP Ruth Bader Ginsburg. We have lost a great woman and feminist. She was brave, a visionary and a warrior for good.
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Today my father, Syl McCurry, passed away. Born Belfast 1930. He worked three jobs to support us. Immigrated to Canada at age 44 with 6 children and started again. Rest in peace Dad. Your work is done.
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My baby girl!
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I mean this woman is incredible. She speaks for all of us and more eloquently than I ever could. Thank God for AOC
NEW:
@AOC
on the House floor: "In front of reporters, Rep. Yoho called me, and I quote, 'a fucking bitch.' These are the words that Rep. Yoho levied against a congresswoman."
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Hi Friends. In case you want the gist of my argument about the C.S.A. Thanks to HUP for making a bit of my book available.
As Confederate flags and statues are being removed, we are pleased to offer an excerpt from
@smccurry3
's Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South, looking at what the Confederate States of America really was.
#ReadUP
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Back at the Met. In masks but still excited for La Boheme.
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Watching the Chair with a chair ( history). He isn’t enjoying it as much as me. 😂
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This is what I got on mother’s day from my daughter. I did something right - amirite? Crack up every time I see it.
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Really great thread. Wd add that until late 1800s women themselves were the judge of “quickening” and ‘abortion’ common and unquestioned. We need to teach more women’s history.
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The president just made his role in voter suppression explicit. Allow vote by mail in Republican run states, obstruct it in Democratic ones. Now what do we do? This is an attack by the President on citizens’ basic rights.
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You know - my kids are older and can’t afford any decent health care. We need to do something about that too. The health care situation in this country is nuts. Who’s with me. ?
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It isn’t what it needed to be but more senators voted to convict a president of their party than ever in any impeachment trial before. More than Johnson. It’s something. I think its fair to say no president will ever suffer impeachment AND conviction.
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Until security of life trumps security of property in this county we have no just future. This goes back to the founding. It’s so American and completely inhuman. My heart goes out to Jacob Blake, his children and his family.
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Reflecting on RBG. A moment to remember that some white women understand their historical exclusion as tying them to an ongoing struggle for justice. May we live up to her example and stand by our BLM friends now when it matters.
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Kavanaugh brought his kids to this hearing? What a self- absorbed a-h
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Been at Baker Library Harvard Bus School all week. 4 th try ( covid cancelled 3x). 19 th C credit reports. Lehman Bros records. Thanks to archivists Heather Oswald and Tim Mahoney for their expert help.
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Twitter needs to shit down Trump’s account. If not now then for what? This is an attempted coup led by the president to stay in power. Act!
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CNN commentators describing Pence as warm. Warm? Creepy is more like. Not sure I can take 90 mins of his fake sincerity face.
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Just took a taxi in NYC - $33. Uber quoted $49. So thats the new deal.
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