October 9-10, NCPH is hosting our inaugural #GradFair! This virtual, two-day event combines a career fair-style experience with live and pre-recorded sessions for prospective students (free for them!) and program faculty and directors. Find more info at https://ncph.org/conference/2025-grad-fair/#GradFair

What does showing up for each other look like right now? Join @ncph.bsky.social on September 5 for Cultivating Community for Cultural Workers through Mutual Aid webinar, which will share the basics of mutual aid and more! community.ncph.org/event/Mutual...

UPDATE: The American Cultural Resource Association also has a healthcare program as a member benefit. They have a helpful webinar on their website to help you learn more. acra-crm.org/membership-b...

80-90% of polled voters say Direct File is a good thing. It is quite literally one of the most popular government programs in America. If Democrats cared more about winning than making their donors happy, they could win 8-10 House seats next year just with ads showing off this tweet.

Do any @historians.org member utilize their healthcare benefit? If you're willing to share, I'd love to know about your experience with cost/coverage options. Please DM me! I moved and need a new healthcare policy; I want to know if getting AHA membership for this sweet benefit is the best route

"Secretary Order 3431 . . . poses a threat to the interpretation of American history at NPS sites. The directive demands that the NPS revise educational materials, exhibits, and programs to avoid what it calls “ideological bias.” 🏳️‍🌈 🗃️ 🍎 🗺️ www.oah.org/2025/06/18/s...

28-year-old Pedro Luis Salazar-Cuervo, who has no known criminal record, was accused by Texas police of being in a Venezuelan gang because they found a photo of him posing with another man with tattoos, his lawyers say. From ProPublica partner @texastribune.org:

@sarahmarsom.bsky.social's recent post on #advocacy in the #PublicHistory field, "Give public historians bread and roses" is an important reflection on ethical hiring practices and wage transparency. Read the full post at the link below ⬇️.

Love when @sarahmarsom.bsky.social goes IN on Labor ncph.org/history-at-w...

This looks lovely but it isn't radical, its just well funded. Many have advocated for visible storage and a democratic approach to making reserve holdings accessible to an inclusive range of users for years. We've just been doing it on a shoestring budget. www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

So many MN place names use the Dakota word for water: Minnetonka: big water Minnehaha: curling water Minneota: much water Minnetrista: crooked water Minneiska: white water Minnewashta: good water Minneopa: follows the water, two waterfalls Minikahda: by the side of the water Minneapolis: water city

Black Bostonians signed the petition to free their kidnapped neighbors in 1788. Governor John Hancock and many other white Bostonians—including the former enslavers of some of the kidnapped men—used their influence to free the men from captivity in the Caribbean and return them home to Boston.

When Roe v. Wade was overturned and abortion became illegal in Alabama, helping people get out of state came with the threat of jail time. The latest from @revealnews.org: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

Burgum literally signed the national parks service over to DOGE

Incredible

Just got word from my college roommate - who is the state archivist for the state of South Dakota - that due to the DOGE shutdowns of IMLS, they can no longer fund InterLibrary Loan in SD. This means exchange between libraries, ability to get books delivered across the system, is gone as of 4/30.

The Sudan National Museum has been wrecked by two years of war in Sudan, with most of its artifacts stolen. #CulturalHeritage #museums

➡️In a series of executive orders, President Donald Trump is reshaping the way America’s history is presented in places that people around the world visit. #historymatters #culturalheritage #museum #Smithsonian wapo.st/44lJ5Q8

My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side. #humanities #highered #neh slate.com/news-and-pol...

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/a... We received our cancellation letters today. The amazing work and projects that all these organizations spent YEARS preparing for are wiped away for yet another statue of George Washington. Absolutely livid.

Just thinking about all the projects that have been defunded that would tell the full, unvarnished history of the US so we can have a statue garden with Whittaker Chambers??? NO ONE NEEDS THAT.

The AHA has released a statement condemning the evisceration of the National Endowment for the Humanities. “This frontal attack on the nation’s public culture is unpatriotic, anti-American, and unjustified.” 🗃️

Co-signed. NCPH urges our members and followers to take action today to defend the National Endowment for the Humanities against DOGE funding cuts for essential #PublicHistory work. Find and write to your representatives at nhalliance.org/federal-fund.... #Advocacy #NEH

The National Trust for Historic Preservation is looking for stories on how what is happening is impacting the work of preservation professionals. #history #publichistory #preservation

Please fill out/share this survey from @savingplaces.bsky.social - they are looking for stories on how the federal administration's actions have impacted your work as a cultural heritage professional #HistoricPreservation #PublicHistory #CulturalHeritage support.savingplaces.org/page/81335/s...

Has anyone heard about attorneys looking for people with terminated grants for a class action suit?

ohio has the 2nd largest library network in the country with one of the most robust interlibrary loan systems. instead of championing this, republicans want to make their constituents, especially children & the elderly, suffer. this should be a huge point that mainstream media should be hitting at

NEW — After putting all Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) employees on administrative leave Monday, I'm told DOGE is canceling congressionally-appropriated grants to state libraries across the entire country. Libraries are getting notice that funding was canceled as of 4/1. More here:

I've obtained a copy of the letter sent by IMLS Acting Director Keith Sonderling to state library grantees letting them know their funding was being pulled, effective immediately:

This is going to hurt a lot of people this summer, next winter, next summer ... "A study published in The Economic Journal last year found that roughly 17 percent of U.S. households spend more than one-tenth of their income on energy." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/c...

I'm 18. The economy enters a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican president is responsible. I'm 29. There is once-in-a-century pandemic that leads to a once-in-century-recession. A Republican is responsible. I'm 35. Tarriffs trigger a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican is responsible.

LibParlor provided some perspective for this article on the cuts to IMLS and the importance of libraries: www.huffpost.com/entry/librar...

⚠️The Trump administration on Monday placed the staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services on administrative leave, setting the stage for potentially ending the main source of federal support for the country’s museums and libraries. ⚠️ #CulturalHeritage #MuseumCommunity #LibraryServices

💥"The order is nothing less than a declaration of political war on the historians’ profession, our training and integrity, as well as on the freedom ... of anyone who seeks to understand our country by visiting museums or historic sites." -- David Blight, Yale University #HistoryMatters #Museum

The Impact Map or Federal Cuts Tracker Map is finally live‼️ Check the 🗺️ out theimpactproject.org/the-impact-m... Explore how federal cuts are affecting your state or community and share this WIDELY 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Today’s daily email to my representatives will focus on this. Your’s should too! Find your reps here: www.congress.gov/members/map Remind them that Congressional orders established library and museum services be federally supported, and these orgs are CRUCIAL for an informed public.

JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

🌄Tribal governance takes a long view based in Native peoples’ deep history with these lands. #TribalGovernance #IndigenousSovereignty #SovereignNations

Looking at Christopher Dresser’s designs always makes me wonder about the possibility that the Victorians really did invent time travel. When do you think this silver teapot was made? (It’s at the V&A if you can’t resist)

In my favorite cartoon- Summer Camp Island, there are a variety of magical creatures. If you’re a Glow Worm, you generate magic + imbue other creatures with that energy. Support the Glow Worms in the #PublicHistory field - people like @law6pubhist.bsky.social www.sarahmarsom.com/news/2025/3/...

I’ve been told multiple times I cannot control this fan club and I do not have buttons to distribute so I will simple say thank you to those participating and the friends leading this I’m honored grateful and want you to call your reps to complain about the attacks on humanities funding and content

Lacey Wilson @law6pubhist.bsky.social is a positive force for #PublicHistory and she is turning 35 in April. Let's seize this opportunity to celebrate Lacey and help support her impact; let's raise $350 for the Teen Museum Studies Program at the Underground Railroad Education Center!!! #NCPH2025

See you at #NCPH2025!?!?!

Thanks for highlighting Times Union I am the staff member that @ugrr-education-ctr.bsky.social hired to play that teen program mentioned here News moves very fast,I think i was in a workshop when this interview happened www.timesunion.com/news/article...

The USPS is being threatened with massive layoffs and privatization. I made these postcards which—when mailed—will be seen by mail handlers, scanners, carriers and the recipient. I just printed 3,000 more. Order cheaply from halfletterpress.com or message me your email for the PDF to print them.

www.latimes.com/politics/sto... Batchelder, etc.: “The volunteers have preserved the tiles from about 50 homes and have about 150 left on their list.”

we need a politics of radical inclusion cos this isn't just symbolism

Sorry, Schoolhouse Rock originalists, this League of Women Voters pamphlet predates I'm Just a Bill by eight years.