It’s not an exaggeration to say that social media made my career as a historian. In 2005 I had completed a masters thesis on William Mahone and the battle of the Crater at the University of Richmond and I was teaching history full time at a private school in Charlottesville.
I was content but was also eager to find ways to continue to share my interest …
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