shaethehistorian
📰making sure we’re no longer footnotes
✍🏾Writer, Speaker, PhD candidate
👩🏾🎓Harvard x UChicago
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- This Mother’s Day, I’m honoring the joy of Black motherhood. From Toni Morrison’s wisdom to Audre Lorde’s fierce love, these women taught us how mothering could be revolutionary and joyful. 🗃️ 🌷 Read the full newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/shaetheh...
- Feeling burned out, unseen, or unsure where to go next? Black women before you faced worse—and thrived. Their stories are your guide. Download No Longer Footnotes. Preorder here →
- Constance Baker Motley helped argue Brown v. Board and became the first Black woman federal judge. This is who we should be learning from. She’s in No Longer Footnotes. Preorder your workbook →
- You’ve seen Michelle Obama slay in her designs. But do you know Tracy Reese—the Black woman behind the looks that broke the mold? Tracy Reese launched her own label in the 1990s and became one of the few Black women showing at New York Fashion Week. (1/2) 🗃️ #metgala
- From enslavement to White House fashion designer. Elizabeth Keckley dressed Mary Todd Lincoln—but her story was never meant to be told. Let’s change that. Keckley bought her freedom in 1855 through her dressmaking. Just a few years later... #metgala 🗃️ (1/2)
- Before there were #MetGala icons, there was Ann Lowe. The Black woman who designed Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress—but they tried to erase her name from history. Let’s talk about the legends who made fashion history before the red carpet ever knew them. (1/3)
- Today, I’m excited to sharing with you my take on historic black women in fashion based on my series “100 Historic Black Women You Should Know” to celebrate the Met Gala/ First Monday in May 🎉 Stay tuned tonight! 🗃️
- She designed Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress. Recreated it overnight after a flood. Got no credit. Meet Ann Lowe — and the other Black women history tried to erase. Preorder the No Longer Footnotes workbook now.
- Black women are often treated like footnotes throughout history and in other people’s stories. Black women aren’t footnotes. They’re the blueprint. You often hear "learn from black women." "Listen to black women." Well, now here’s your chance 🗃️ ✨Excited to announce my first e-workbook :
- ✍🏾 If you had to risk your freedom just to write a sentence—would you still do it? In 1980s Prague, they did. Every. Single. Day. This is the story of how the underground press brought down a regime. 🗃️:
- I’ve been working on something for MONTHS for the Shae the Historian community and there’s a big announcement coming soon ! Head over to my free newsletter to be the first to hear it ! 🗃️ shaethehistorian.substack.com
- What nonfiction books are you looking forward to reading this week ? 🗃️
- Reposted by shaethehistorianHistory Lab is proud to announce the winner of this year's Olivette Otele Prize, Olivia Wyatt! 🏆🎉 Olivia's paper is titled "Black is Beautiful: The Politics of Pigmentation within the British Black Women's Movement". Congratulations to Olivia who joins a long line of Olivette Otele Prize winners!✨
- One of the best, unputdownable trade press books I've ever read on the British Empire is Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire by Kojo Koram. I read it almost in one sitting, the only thing that interrupted me was the fact that I had to go teach a section. 🗃️
- This is a day in the life of a historian of the British Empire — secondary literature for a dissertation chapter. One day my work will join this collection of thick, yet impactful books 🙏🏾 🗃️
- I just saw a fascinating thread on the history of black popes and would love to learn more! Are there any church or religious historians here I should be following ? 🗃️
- It never gets old, but the fact that I get to wake up every morning and be a historian is such a blessing. I spend all day working with academic historians, then evenings and weekends working on public history content. I couldn't have asked for a better life 🗃️
- For those tuned into my history of the British Empire for Britons series… First of all thank you for engaging with this short teasers on my channel. We’re currently in production around London so we can make British Empire history as accessible as possible to those in the UK so stay tuned 🗃️
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