Hilary Green, PhD
Scholar, Educator. Author of Educational Reconstruction (Fordham UP, 2016) and Unforgettable Sacrifice (forthcoming Fordham UP, 2025) and other works.
- Great article about the stakes facing museums and other public entities telling inclusive narratives. Free article for you. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
- On this day, fifteen years ago, I successfully defended my dissertation. Happy anniversary!
- Excited for this upcoming week. I get to celebrate students on Tuesday. I discuss my book at my favorite DC bookstore on Wednesday. I teach on Thursday. Then I head to Durham for the Carolina Chocolate Drops reunion concert with overworked friends this weekend. Happy Saturday!
- So excited for this book and for being part the USC Reconstruction Reconsidered series! I can't wait to read it!
- I know there’s a lot going on but… I am very excited to share the cover for my book - “The Republican House Divided: Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and the Transformation of the GOP” - which is forthcoming this Fall with @uscpress.bsky.social! Pre-order here: uscpress.com/The-Republic... 🗃️
- Reposted by Hilary Green, PhDAmerican Bar Association: The Importance of Teaching Reconstruction and the Law Today www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/... #TeachReconstruction
- Reposted by Hilary Green, PhDAbraham Lincoln's Forgotten Walk Through Richmond: A commemoration of Abraham Lincoln and the U.S. Navy officers and sailors who walked him through Richmond in April 1865 www.usni.org/magazines/na...
- I am glad to be able to be in conversation about the book and lessons for today at Busboys and Poets later this month. The book discusses many individuals and communities who chose remembrance as their politics in a landscape defined by lies, myths, and intentional forgetting. Come out if you can!
- With pending construction near historic buildings, I adjusted the syllabus. Students did shovel tests. They found some pottery shards, broken ceramic plates, coal & old gravel used in the old pathways. They loved talking to the Dean, campus chaplain and campus archivists about it. #campushistory
- Reposted by Hilary Green, PhDHow did @uniofstandrews.bsky.social benefit from, participate in, or support, British colonialism? Our report 'The University of St Andrews and the legacies of empire, 1700-1900' is now available legacies-of-empire.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk #history #skystorians
- Enjoying my Spring Break with a few days being a tourist in Paris. I'm also celebrating the book. #amrelaxing
- Reposted by Hilary Green, PhDRevisiting John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry www.railstotrails.org/trailblog/20...
- Reposted by Hilary Green, PhD"A sweeping history of Native Americans and a study of the creation of the port of Los Angeles in the 19th century have won this year’s Bancroft Prize, one of the most distinguished honors for scholars of American history." 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/a...
- Reposted by Hilary Green, PhD🗃️”We must risk the currents.” Honored to chat with scholar @marthasjones.bsky.social about #TheTroubleofColor, a brilliant new memoir of family history, the complexity of race, & finding hope in hard histories. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-...
- Reposted by Hilary Green, PhDEverything is janky as hell in March 2025, but one thing you can depend on: #ScholarSunday threads! Here’s my 214th of great public scholarly writing, podcast eps, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...
- BHM 2025, Day 28: James Howard Jim Crow and Post-desegregation era Davidson College employee He and his wife both worked at Davidson. Their daughter Rev. Brenda Tapia served as a chaplain & the director of the Love of Learning program. Last weekend, LOL alumni held a reunion. #BlackHistoryMonth
- BHM 2025, Day 27: Donald James Brown Post-Desegregation Davidson College employee #BlackHistoryMonth
- BHM 2025, Day 26: Hazeline Knox Post-Desegregation era Davidson College employee #BlackHistoryMonth
- Reposted by Hilary Green, PhDSo today is publication day for @hngreen.bsky.social! So go buy “unforgettable sacrifice” as you won’t regret it!
- I am so excited for this event! Can't wait to discuss the book at one of my favorite DC bookstores.
- You can get your copy of "Unforgettable Sacrifice" signed in DC on April 23 when @hngreen.bsky.social is in town for an event hosted by @teachingchange.bsky.social at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social! Order food and drink throughout. Spread the word! ⬇️ www.teachingforchange.org/unforgettabl...
- Another interesting book fact. I originally had the content of the Porch Lessons within the traditional chapters to the dismay of family and early readers. When my editor suggested that I make this content its own sections, I easily wrote them. Trust your editor and early readers.
- Another interesting thing about the book. It has photos, including one of me with my grandmother and brother. In it, you will see the porch that shaped the first four chapters. The other ones either come from my own photo collection or specific archives.
- Some interesting facts about Unforgettable Sacrifice. I organized the book around porches of my maternal, adopted, and paternal kinkeepers. With the exception of the Richmond chapter, I can tell you whose porch or porches where I heard some of the family and community histories covered in the book.
- BHM 2025, Day 25: Johnny Ray Dubose Post-Desegregation era Davidson College employee #BlackHistoryMonth
- Happy book publication day! Writing and researching Unforgettable Sacrifice was a journey. I am forever grateful to my family and community kinskeepers who inspired the book and ensured that I narrated their past with accuracy, dignity, and respect. 1/3
- BHM 2025, Day 24: Mattie Fletcher Post-Desegregation Davidson College employee #blackhistorymonth
- BHM 2025, Day 23: Thelma White Post-desegregation Davidson College employee #BlackHistoryMonth
- BHM 2025, Day 22: Nora and Henry Gabriel Post-Desegregation Davidson College employees #BlackHistoryMonth
- Reposted by Hilary Green, PhDOut With Confederate Soldiers, In With United States Colored Troops 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
- BHM 2025, Day 21: Lula Bell Houston Jim Crow and Post-Desegregation Davidson College employee #BlackHistoryMonth
- BHM 2025, Day 20: Harry Lee and Lela Johnson Jim Crow and Post-Desegregation Davidson College employees #BlackHistoryMonth
- BHM 2025, Day 19: Mrs. Percy Simolton Scales Jim Crow era Davidson College employee #BlackHistoryMonth
