Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD @TheOtherRBG Twitter profile

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

2 months

🚨my book has a cover and is available for preorder🚨 the first 150 individuals to DM ME (or email rbg @american .edu) A SCREEN SHOT OF THEIR PREORDER WITH THEIR MAILING ADDRESS will receive a custom sticker in the mail, while supplies last!

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

1 year

a casual reminder of JFK’s college essay (this is real )

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2 months

the tortured poets department

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Joyce Carol Oates

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1 year

are there instances of women becoming obsessed with historic events? definitely a male preoccupation with certain phases of history (Civil War, Nazis, Hitler) & reenactments of battles. women may obsess over reading, music & dance, kitties, doggies, clothes, gardening, men.

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

3 years

always wanted school on my birthday, and on my 28th birthday I had the privilege of successfully defending my doctoral dissertation! PhDid, PhDone. no words for everyone who supported me along the way- too many to thank here, but you know who you are 🥰

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

1 year

at bar with husband and friend in Arlington — random dude approaches: “were you at the Archives today?” me: “yes…” ~conversation ensues~ dude: “what’re you researching?” me: “Frances Perkins” dude: “I’ll look him up”

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

2 years

I had one of the best days of my life today.

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

2 years

my grandmother wrote an acrostic about my dissertation

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

2 years

thinking of everyone at #UVA today's college students were in elementary school during Sandy Hook and high school during Parkland. mass shootings are part of their understanding of what can happen at school. make it stop

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

8 years

Jefferson with names of all the people he enslaved @NMAAHC #APeoplesJourney

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

3 years

Dissertation defense officially scheduled for August 17, 2021, which also happens to be my 28th birthday and my first choice.

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

4 years

“brands have all the power to help us... factories will listen to them, but they have to listen to us first”

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4 years

🚨NEW🚨 My investigation of Michael Kors, Kate Spade and Vera Bradley's supply chains and a reminder that racism does not end at the US’ borders. It leaches into war, reproductive healthcare, and work—including the way fashion workers are treated in Asia

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

3 years

"I wonder if someone in the audience of William Henry Harrison's Inaugural also got pneumonia & died, and we just never heard about them" -tenth grader

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

3 years

student, appears in doorway: "you know that misogynistic philosopher?" me: "which one? there are like 200"

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

3 years

just sent my dissertation to my committee! 🍾 I think this is when one tweets the table of contents? considering my title page has been my prof pic for a ~month

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

2 years

Stamp Act activity: me: "close your devices, put away your notes, take out your phones" 11th graders: 🤨 me: "work in pairs to make a list of everything you do on your phone" then, cross check purposes of phone with clauses & lines from Stamp Act

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

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10 months

ecstatic to share that I’m a Cokie Roberts fellow 2023! deeply thankful to @archivesfdn for supporting my book project. the fellowship aligns w/ my values of women’s history, federal history, accessible writing, & the legacy of Cokie Roberts

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

2 years

Twitter: would you like to read it first? me: dude I wrote it

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

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3 years

good morning☀️☕️🎂👩🏻‍💼

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

2 years

as always, the best way to catch a mistake is to press ✨submit✨

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

2 years

excited & grateful to announce that I #amwriting my book on Frances Perkins’s refugee policy for @KensingtonBooks ! endless thanks to my agent @DaniSegelbaum , husband @BGrahamDC , @FranPerkinsCtr @rerbelding @gauthamrao @llassabe & too many to list! #BookTwitter #twitterstorians

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

2 years

now that all parties involved have signed, I’m so excited to announce that for my book project DEAR MISS PERKINS: A STORY OF FRANCES PERKINS’S EFFORTS TO AID REFUGEES FROM NAZI GERMANY, I’m repped by @DaniSegelbaum @carolmannagency 📖✍🏼👩🏻‍💻 #amwriting #writer #writerscommunity

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

5 years

accepting caption suggestions 🤩 @WestWingWeekly @JoshMalina @Lawrence @marycmccormack

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

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5 years

Archives staff: excuse me, ma'am, are you a college student? me: no. Archives staff: ... Archives staff: I was thinking that only a college student would dress that casual. me: I don't think that's a compliment. Archives staff: hahaha

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

2 years

#NewProfilePic

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

2 months

happy birthday Frances Perkins @FranPerkinsCtr @mtholyoke

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

2 years

why is Abraham Lincoln in the lobby #AHA22

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

3 years

new shirt from in-laws ❤️ #BookTwitter #twitterstorians @womnknowhistory

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

3 years

today I taught an 11th grader that you can make any American history paper longer by always writing United States and shorter by always writing U.S.

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

1 year

finished a great @USNatArchives week with a misogynistic barrier to entry and obstacle to research, named Tom from Reference 1/x

Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

1 year

Tom from reference kept using he/him pronouns for FP. I told him she was 1st woman in the Cabinet. he said he didn’t care, “not important,” he’s “happy for her mother,” that she was “gender confused,” he “went to college along time ago.” no reference help I guess @USNatArchives

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

2 years

before I go to sleep tonight I'll be submitting my book proposal for trade press to two agents who've expressed interest- wish me luck!

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

3 years

I've long referred to Benjamin Franklin as the Flat Stanley of Early America, and then today a junior introduced Flat Franklin to my classroom 🤣 #amteaching

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

3 years

me: so what's the score husband: shut up me: 🥺 husband: oh you were actually asking? thought you were mocking me (so I guess @Nationals are beating @Mets then 😊🥳)

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

2 years

below is a bad and dangerous take. the origin of sources and people behind historical content are both part of the story, part of the narrative. especially when discussing the marginalized and minorities

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

2 years

my dissertation arrived

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

3 years

this won’t get old for me for a long time (though it might get old for you 🙃)

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

4 years

today's my first official day of full-time employment. I guess every day is the first day of the rest of your life, but this one really feels like it ☕️💕✨

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

3 years

the university where I earned my masters and doctorate just emailed me to request verification of my masters and doctorate before I adjunct- I replied asking which of their offices should I ask. they called me prof Graham so I’m not mad #phdchat

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

3 years

a very thoughtful 11th grader started her Hill internship today ➡️ @CoryBooker @SenBooker sent me a personalized video😭😍🤩

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

3 months

🚨📖DEAR MISS PERKINS: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany has a publication date: January 21, 2025, the day after the presidential inauguration 🤯

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

5 years

sleeping historian awakes to say, “I have a comment, but I’ll try to make it a question” #aha19

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

2 years

if you’re an educator whose afternoon class was NOT interrupted by “THE QUEEN DIED,” you probably weren’t teaching this afternoon

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

3 years

many congrats @HC_Richardson and also this was a fascinating read

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

3 years

I’m keeping it real: I’m pretty depressed at the moment, which anyone could’ve seen coming, but I truly didn’t.

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

3 years

just submitted full dissertation draft to advisor. here’s one of my favorite memes for the occasion. out of town this weekend & mostly offline ✌️

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

1 year

just dropped off 5 history books at the new @AHAhistorians LFL 📚📍Capitol Hill

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

1 year

my 81yr-old Jewish grandmother (Rhode Island) and husband’s 80yr-old Jewish grandmother (Florida) each sent us the same card (again) — not the first time this happened 🥰

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

6 years

successfully defended my diss-prospectus -- officially ABD!

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

3 years

my colleague had 2 trash cans while I had none. today 10 eleventh graders silently marched from my classroom to hers, stole her trash can, and analyzed this in terms of empire.

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

2 years

first day as an adjunct 👩🏻‍🏫👩🏻‍💻🌸

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

1 year

thank you for helping to choose my author photo! #NewProfilePic

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

5 years

me: hey haven't seen you in a while prof: are you married now? me: yes! prof: congrats! me: thanks! prof: you look good! did you lose weight? me: ...I don't think so prof: you look slender me: ~retreats around corner~ prof: married life is treating you well ^wrong in many ways

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

1 month

last year I treated myself to psychological testing for my 30th birthday. I’m autistic and ADHD, & the months since my diagnoses have been what some call an “unmasking journey,” learning to be myself, neurodivergent in a world that can be hard. (1/5)

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

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3 years

paradise found 📚 💕 ✨ @chbooksdc

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

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11 months

🚨Friendly’s still exists, & their milkshake is still called a Fribble 📍Western MA

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

4 years

my dad watching #HamiltonFilm : the duel was senseless me: it was part of a political culture of honor. if they believed in something, they were honorable if they were willing to die for it. you should read Affairs of Honor by @jbf1755 my dad: no I just mean it’s sad

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

1 year

although I expected prejudice toward me, tbh I was surprised by the indignant refusal of Tom from Reference to acknowledge that Frances Perkins was a woman she/her. I hope that @USNatArchives can work toward gender equity & accessibility of records esp under @AOTUS11_Shogan 12/12

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

10 months

last tweet of my twenties

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

4 months

just submitted my book (again). edited and revised. it's not perfect. I'm really very proud of many parts

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

1 year

@EmilySBurrill I was not trying to continue the conversation 🙊

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

2 years

I bought a books dress in the French Quarter 📚👗— thanks @PhDinProgress17 for accompanying

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

3 years

today I submitted second-to-last chapter draft and also won a finishing grant from AU- grateful & motivated to finish dissertation

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

5 years

“for Trump, there is no United States’ interest. there’s just Trump’s interests” - @juliettekayyem

Juliette Kayyem

@juliettekayyem

5 years

To Trump, Kim is like the high school quarterback that the girl wants to take to prom despite the data points that he's a bad guy. @CNN

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1 year

" @carolinepennock reverses this oft-repeated narrative, demonstrating that Weyonomon’s trip to England was part of a lengthy history of Indigenous people crossing the Atlantic" - @kawulf @SmithsonianMag (8/10)

The Indigenous Americans Who Visited Europe

A new book reverses the narrative of the Age of Discovery, which has long evoked the ambitions of Europeans looking to the Americas rather than vice versa

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

12 days

what does one wear on the last day of being a teacher for me keeping it simple means books dress 📚👗

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

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2 years

I’ve been clapping back at the critics more than usual because I genuinely think that our collective argument against the fetishization of side-hustling is bullet-proof.

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

5 years

thanks @brianros1 & @madebyhistory for the opportunity to write abt @ewarren & Frances Perkins. feel like I’d been preparing for this since canvassing for Warren in 2012 & interning @FranPerkinsCtr in2014. thanks also @BGrahamDC @mnfineman @Sam_Medeiros_

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

2 years

I just tested positive for covid. I blame myself for being burnt out/run down and also everyone who pretends that the pandemic ended. let’s care for each other and especially ourselves ❤️‍🩹

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

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2 years

tweeting a line without the context, but literally wtf: "Perkins was then thirty-three, and perky, though certainly not beautiful." -David Brooks

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

6 years

just submitted my article manuscript to a peer-reviewed print journal for the 1st time. I genuinely believe that the content should be published... fingers crossed! gonna celebrate by bringing the remaining edible cookie dough to my department's fridge... #gradlife #phdchat

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

10 months

thanks @nursingclio for soliciting this essay about a story that unfolded during my first week of summer. now I’m back in my classroom nostalgic for research/writing adventures & thankful to everyone who helped

Why the First Woman Matters: Traversing Barriers in the Archives

What started as a straightforward reference question at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provoked an unmistakable volley in the culture wars – and as I fled from the battlefi…

nursingclio.org

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

2 years

a few days ago my mom asked me to pick a Bethesda restaurant for night before PhD graduation. I picked one, and she didn’t respond. days later/tonight she texted me choice of 3 other Bethesda restaurants that she’d prefer

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

6 years

good read, & seems like Heidi Cruz should’ve been a US Senator instead of Ted:

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

3 years

me: I have an idea for a dissertation tattoo husband: finish it first and then we'll revisit

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

2 years

I’d like more days when I don’t drive home in tears.

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2 years

what a #job title 🐻

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3 years

view of the Pentagon’s blue light from my roof @ARLnowDOTcom #September11

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

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3 years

vaccinated part 1 ✅💉

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

5 years

I got married this morning, & my initials are now RBG. what should my new handle be?

anotherRBG

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

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9 months

happy Labor Day (photo from @mtholyoke archives) #FrancesPerkins #LaborDay

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3 years

a library w/ a view ☃️

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

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2 years

I have an interview this evening via zoom for what would be a dream-come-true research fellowship 🤞🏼

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

3 years

dissertation submitted for format review, & $75 paid for copyright. it's the little things. T-49 days till defense

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

3 years

today’s destination @chbooksdc

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

2 years

just submitted my first-ever chapter draft for an edited volume. I'm delighted that a classroom conversation influenced the idea, and I also used my research for the chapter in the classroom last week. won't be in print for a while, so always must celebrate small victories

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

3 years

sorry if my word count updates seem out of touch. I'm a bit desensitized tbh. s/o to my fellow grad students who've grad-schooled through the Trump administration & dissertated through a pandemic

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

7 months

WOAH I missed a LOT on academic Twitter this morning 😳 are academic/public history, misogyny, Israel/Palestine, & the editor who unfollowed me years ago for slightly disagreeing w/ him all part of the same story?!

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

3 years

excited to teach my first college class ‘social forces that shaped America’ — aka 20th c gender/race/class — this summer for AU! 🦅

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

4 years

tonight after Shabbat, I wrote (including some re-writing) 2947 words of introduction to my diss, within a document labeled "And now that you don't have to be perfect" (you can be good) 💕 #phdchat

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

7 years

passed comps with distinction, and my advisors said to take a break & relax :)

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

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3 years

at outdoor restaurant with fellow grad students I uttered the phrase "publish AND perish," and an older guy/Econ PhD at the adjacent table started laughing 😂

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

6 years

a friend asked for advice on how much to charge for research assistance, so I compiled a list of podcasts on knowing your worth:

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

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4 years

I keep thinking of how when Lincoln died on Passover + Shabbat, Jewish leaders traveled to DC to say Kaddish for someone who wasn’t Jewish for first time in U.S. RBG died on Rosh Hashanah + Shabbat, & diverse crowds — regardless of backgrounds — honored her w/ mourners Kaddish

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

@TheOtherRBG

2 years

ICYMI I wrote about the gig economy for @AHAhistorians -- thank you @lmansley for soliciting & editing and @mapper_mundi for edits! #twitterstorians #USIH @womnknowhistory

Hustling to Get By: Side Jobs in Graduate School

OAfter working 15 side gigs during her six years of graduate school, Rebecca Brenner Graham advocates for the importance of a living wage.

www.historians.org

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

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1 year

this morning while sitting in @ThirstyMindCafe (my favorite cafe in the world) I learned that my Frances Perkins research will benefit from the support of a month-long Rubenstein research fellowship from @WhiteHouseHstry — I’m so excited and thankful

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

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1 year

@D_historyMan fascinating 🤨 considering her speech(es) referenced being a woman

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

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3 years

abortions are okay no matter what. here’s what makes me emotional: my two favorite people my baby siblings are alive because my mom was able to abort the third baby, who had a heartbeat but no brain, and was depriving them of nutrients #DobbsvJackson

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4 years

tested negative ✅

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Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD

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2 years

my dad is also heading to Boston for work today, so I have a commuting buddy 🚊 #USIH2022

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