Matt O'Neal @matt_c_oneal
History and southern studies. Researching the Great Migration in Appalachia. Oxford, MS Joined April 2019-
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It's the third and final round—the official call to post Round Three! Read the selected articles on ProjectMUSE (ow.ly/cyPG50Rco0w for links) and pick your favorite (link below) before 5 p.m. ET on Friday, May 3! #twitterstorians Pick your favorite: surveymonkey.com/r/77RK26W
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🚨#twitterstorians – KHS research fellowship application deadline is March 1, 2022. Come research with us in Kentucky! @SCWHGrads @AgHistorySoc @Branch19th @womnknowhistory @HNet_Sport @ASEH_org @SHAFRhistorians @SHEARites For more info and to apply, visit history.ky.gov/khs-for-me/for…
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Scott Reynolds Nelson @nelsonhist @universityofga with a new essay on the long resource history – the fuels for humans and machines – behind the Ukraine crisis. historynewsnetwork.org/article/182526
in the year of our Lord, 2022
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From the Hagley History Hangout - check out the podcast interview with Social historian Matthew O’Neal, PhD candidate at the University of Georgia, as he uncovers the story of two eastern-Kentucky towns that reacted differently to the Great Migration. hagley.org/research/histo…
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This photo sent me down a rabbit hole this morning, and I found some great stuff. Let’s learn about Carroll Chisley, 1894-1932 (🧵1/)
This photo sent me down a rabbit hole this morning, and I found some great stuff. Let’s learn about Carroll Chisley, 1894-1932 (🧵1/)
The 75% disapproval rating always blows students' minds: zocalopublicsquare.org/2018/04/04/mar…
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The KSR Tornado Relief Fund has hit $56,000 in three hours. You folks are amazing KSRTornadoRelief.com
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This #Fellow Friday we welcome Matt O’Neal @matt_c_oneal. Matt is a PhD candidate at @UGAHistory He is researching his dissertation, “Home and Hell in Appalachia: The Great Migration and the Making of Sundown Towns in the Mountain South.” @AppStudiesASU @BlackAppalachia
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you have to be absolutely without a soul to see a whole town leveled and go directly to this
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Excited to talk trains and southern history (among other topics) with @Bryant_Barnes and @matt_c_oneal for the virtual SHA - catch our panel Friday the 5th at 1:45 EST! Its no New Orleans but at least my cats will be in attendance... #2021SHA
1918's version of 15 Days to Slow the Spread: "The schools all over the country have closed... the disease will be under control to such an extent that they can be opened within two or three weeks."
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Map of land sold to U.S. Steel by the Wentz Corp. of Philadelphia, 1917. Model company town of Lynch would be built in "Block A."
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