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Professor @ USC. I write about African American life in early national and antebellum Boston. My posts are my own opinions and do not reflect those of my employer.

Leon Jackson

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Tulip is so proud of you! It may not seem like it, but you did good today. Keep it up! 🌷🐕‍🦺

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Leon Jackson

I think English professors should get into the YouTube reaction video world. Like, 'English Professor Reacts to James Joyce For the First Time!' & it will just be someone middle aged sitting in a comfortable chair for an hour, occasionally chewing a pen, or reaching for a pack of Post-It notes.

👀 #bookhistory

I’m tired all the time, and my feet hurt. I think I’m really getting the hang of this getting older thing 😕

She is ~constantly~ trying to kiss me. Usually it’s just easiest to give in 🐕‍🦺

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The only orange king who was ever worth a damn

They are part of the Andrew Jackson and Erwin Davis Papers at the New York Historical Society.

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Looking for squirrels! 🐿️

I will never forget the time I told an archivist that I was interested the history of threatening letters, and they brought out these paper effigies with tiny nooses round their necks that had been sent anonymously to a mine operator in C19 California 😳 🗃️

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The wonderful thing about Tyggers Is Tyggers are burning bright Their tops are made out of rubber In the forest of the night What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy, Immortal hand or eye Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers, Their fearful symmetry!

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