"Across numerous surveys, a majority of Americans consistently say they want a full, honest, and unvarnished presentation of our nation’s history."

The @nationalacademies.org has just launched a fast-track review of evidence regarding whether greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare. You can submit papers, articles, data, and other comments through August 27 at their main input portal: nas.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?...

If you are having trouble finding National Climate Assessment reports, they are here. www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

"You cannot heal a wound by pretending it does not exist, and we cannot honor Americans' shared history by sweeping it under the rug." Statement from the National Assoc. of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers on NPS's removal of a sign in Muir Woods with updates to its historical story.

“To me, the biggest irony is that the Trump administration says it wants to tell a more balanced version of history, and that’s exactly what this sign did,” Villano said. “It didn’t remove anything. It just layered in what had been missing.”

For a long time, I wanted there to be clear culture & heritage expertise on the State Dept. climate team. Now the team is gone entirely. There are so many dimensions to this loss, it's hard to capture - #ClimateHeritage

This is also my concern for tipping points - the social ones that are held off, which pushes us over the physical ones. www.carbonbrief.org/experts-whic...

Look what I made! Ask me for a postcard next time you see me. #ClimateChange #Heritage #HeritageAtRisk #BannedWords

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued an opinion saying that nations have legal obligations to try to reduce the impacts and eliminate the human causes of global warming.

BREAKING: During parks' moment of greatest need, the House voted to finalize the reconciliation bill, which claws back $267 million of previously committed staff funding. Now it will move to the president’s desk. www.npca.org/articles/958...

The White House took down a website hosting the nation's top report on how climate change is affecting the United States.

okay and here is my ‘sounds like a shitpost but it’s genuine’ UK heatwave tip: if there is a Saxon or Norman church near you, and it’s open, go sit in it. not gothic, they have too many windows, get you some thick stone walls with some high up tiny windows. they stay cold. and you can just sit there

What @aroddick.bsky.social said-

This adds to my hope: "Instead, in the nearly 200 submissions NPS received in the first days since the solicitations were posted, visitors implored the administration not to erase U.S. history and praised agency staff for improving their experiences."

"Scotland’s Solway Firth is our first Landscape Connections project ... It will use the grant to plan a ‘whole seascape approach’ to protecting and developing the coast’s natural and cultural heritage." #coastalhistory #environmentalhumanities www.heritagefund.org.uk/news/scotlan...

The Antiquities Act gives the president power to CREATE national monuments. Not ERASE them. That is illegal. Sign your name at npca.org/protectmonuments

DOJ opinion from May 27 sets a foundation for undoing protections of the 1906 Antiquities Act, potentially very broadly. This is not good news for public lands, and cultural and natural heritage, Tribal places, and marine areas now held as national monuments. www.justice.gov/olc/media/14...

Some short powerful letters from students on what studying history now is teaching them- wapo.st/45evxXm

The wonderful writer @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social will be in DC tomorrow (6/5, 7pm ET) to talk about his new book! So looking forward to this. politics-prose.com/robert-macfa...

The phrase "national parks" is most often linked to nature and scenery such as at Yellowstone and Yosemite. But ca. 2/3 of all national parks were established to recognize history and culture (and all parks hold these).

Adding to this article to note that all three legs of US archaeology are being cut: - loss of federal staff, care of federal lands - cuts of funding, university research & elsewhere - challenges to NEPA & archaeology as part of other environmental compliance

Saw this today and it resonated: firing of federal scientists, cutting off research, loss of heritage to climate impacts, banning of words, silencing of stories

“Should rangers at Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument avoid speaking negatively about slavery? Should rangers at Manzanar National Historic Site avoid the imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II? This sets a dangerous precedent of prioritizing nostalgia over truth.”

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

🏺🗃️ Historians of archaeology are always welcome to join our online support group! Sing up here: forms.gle/7UVKDmfRhJXB... ✅ Don't forget to tick yes on the form to receive a link to our #Discord server! 👋the group is open to all career stages

The federal eraser has changed "why our resources are valued by many diverse groups" to "why our resources are valued by many groups" in the 2014 NPS policy memorandum for climate change and cultural resources. Rest of its content appears intact. May it stay - www.nps.gov/subjects/pol...

BREAKING: We're fighting termination of our recently awarded NEH grant. The DOGE-rescinded award supported our collaborative project with Tribes to document culturally important animal and plant species. www.archaeologysouthwest.org/2025/04/21/a...

Not a surprise as things are going, but this sentence says a lot: "The department would also get rid of the position of the special envoy for climate."

Injustice of climate change has many forms and levels. Here @frediotto.bsky.social captures one of its sources- www.theguardian.com/environment/...

History and what's happening now - tonight, April 18, 7pm ET, featuring @hcrichardson.bsky.social, who is amazing and I don't how she does it but oh I am grateful that she does.

As a former NPS person, I add to this that previous government shutdowns in which parks were kept open with small fractions of needed staff resulted in visitor damage to parks, including looting of archaeological sites.

There are many values held and allowed by public lands. Executive & secretarial orders that see only dollar, mineral, and burnable fuel values are piling up. So am grateful for the voices speaking for values of place, connection, history, and other ways of living in our environments.

Recording of Timothy Snyder from last night. He's working with patterns of thought from the deeper past and how they're taking shape now- so yes, I loved it! He also worked in humor, which he said is so needed for long term opposition to authoritarianism. www.youtube.com/live/TMyHbgU...

Today, April 1st, in NYC: I am honored to be delivering the annual Robert B. Silvers lecture at the NYPL. The topic will be: "The New Paganism: A Framework for Understanding Our Politics." Livestream registration is available: www.showclix.com/event/timoth...

I live a mile from the Mall and I've long braced for environmental disasters that would threaten Smithsonian museums- which do I run to first? What can I help move? I'm deeply worried for what may come next in this human disaster - they must not touch the collections.

I was so proud when this article was published a year ago- it's an evidence base for how to build stronger connections between federal work on heritage and on climate. Huge holes in both of these now. Strengthening these links must be on our list for rebuilding. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

22 years ago I led the first book on the archaeology of how humans learn unfamiliar landscapes. Today I signed the contract for a new companion volume, "Climate Change in Archaeology and Heritage: Learning a Changing World" (working title). Feeling yay and yikes in equal measure. #ClimateHeritage

“So where are these eight million pieces going to go? How do we know for certain that they won’t be damaged or lost? These are questions that have not been answered,” Dr. Abdo said."

More cuts coming to my former agency, the National Park Service - 30% payroll reduction. There was change I could see that would have allowed us to better manage parks, support colleagues, and care for the cultural and natural heritage of the US. It was never this. thehill.com/homenews/sta...

Part of fighting what's happening is documenting it. The Organization of American Historians @oah.org has launched an oral history project to gather stories and experiences of federal employees and contractors being fired and affected now. You can sign up at the link below. #History

"We were going to take her out to the ocean and release her. We hadn’t done it yet.” This is a powerful step-by-step of how teams of archaeologists and dogs are recovering from cremains from the ashes of homes burned in LA. #ClimateHeritage

As of yet, there are no archaeological or anthropological societies signed to this letter. Social science is also science, and we need it now more than ever. I've shared forward with Society for Historical Archaeology. What contacts do others have?

The call for sessions (including regular sessions, workshops, & panel discussions) for #NordicTAG2026 is now open 🎉 The theme of the Conference is Activate Archaeology for Just Futures! More details here: lnu.se/en/meet-linn... Sessions deadline 31 May. Call for papers to follow. #AcademicSky

Now posted for public comment in the Federal Register through March 27: Removal of National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations. This does not bode well for the natural environment or cultural resources. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Senate roll call vote taken on Tues. removing the rule set up by BOEM to better protect underwater archaeology during oil and gas development. Object lesson in how to endanger both the future and the past at the same time. #ClimateHeritage www.senate.gov/legislative/...

That value of public land should be measured in immediate revenue is problematic enough. But I notice that somehow updating mining law always seems to be missing from these arguments. The price of a mining claim in the US hasn't been raised since 1872. #History

As I argue in the paper, endangerment may bring funding & support for research, but it has trade offs. By focusing on the fragility of heritage, we diminish its power, its resilience, its centrality. Heritage doesn't need us, we need it.

As someone who built their career on digital programming to expand DEAI access to cultural heritage, the last 6 weeks have been brutal. I’m not just a practitioner, I’m also a researcher who craves quantitative data of what all we’re losing! Add programs you’ve seen disappear to this Google Sheet.

I've been saying this to my students when we discuss how history is a process of inquiry and interpretation, a form of active and critical thinking that proceeds by question-and-answer. History trains you to think originally and to create knowledge. The *best* genAI can do is commonplace or banal

Please consider donating to Alta Heritage Foundation to support the cremains recovery on the southern California wildfires: altahf.org/make-a-donat... #wildfire #wildfirerecovery #Altadena #eatonfire #appliedarchaeology