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Built in 1576 in a field in Shoreditch, the Theatre was London's first purpose-built playhouse and #Shakespeare's first theatre. This timeline, from Daniel Swift’s book The Dream Factory charts the Theatre’s history: yalebooks.co.uk/shakespeares... #ShakespeareDay #shakespearebirthday #TheatreSky

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"The Civil War to Civil Rights" was the National Park Service's theme for the 150th commemoration (2011-2015). While the landing page is still active, the document detailing the 150th has been removed. Still looking into it and will update as more info becomes available.🗃️ www.nps.gov/civilwar/civ...

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🗃️ 💰 Calling all grad students! @susih.bsky.social will award up to 2 May Fund grants for summer research—you’re welcome to use funds as needed (copies, coffee, family care, DH training!), just show how it will help you contribute to the field. Please share + apply! s-usih.org/2025/04/henr...

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Dr. Josephine Baker fought for milk testing in lower Manhattan over a century ago, where babies were 7 times more likely to die than WWI US soldiers in the trenches. Milk was often adulterated with chalk and germ-y water. Today the FDA stopped testing milk due to lack of staff. Shame on you, Trump.

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ERIC is scheduled to run out of money on April 23. After that date, no new documents can be added. www.governing.com/policy/major...

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"Take that shoe box out of your closet and label your family photos. Everyone’s story matters." Powerful reflection on memory and the violence of forgetting. This is the kind of historical research our current government seeks to erase www.zocalopublicsquare.org/american-his...

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People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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We’re writing with a quick update. NCSA has decided to quit Twitter. Our account is still open for now, but we will permanently close it on 7 July, 2025. You can help us by spreading the word to our C19 colleagues. We’ve already built quite a following over the past year!

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My NEH grant was terminated in service of a new focus on “patriotic programming,” but as an American and an Americanist, I know that resisting this dangerous decision and the broader movement of which it is a part is my patriotic duty. Wrote abt it @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1936...

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By and large, these aren't "tariffs" per se, which try to balance prices. It's more like an embargo. The port fees on ships made in China, due to start April 17, would by themselves render unprofitable huge amounts of low-margin trade used throughout our economy. Stuff which we don't make here.

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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

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My working theory is that someone once told him that it was called "The Gilded Age" and went "You mean... like gold?"

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The White House admits they sent an innocent father of three to the prison in El Salvador but they are still fighting to make sure he doesn’t come home. The definition of evil.

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Historians will tell you -- do not believe it.

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you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

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@jwomenshistory.bsky.social welcomes applications for 2025 Scholars Research Grants to support travel, research, or writing in women's and gender history. Deadline 23 May 25. 🗃️ See jwomenshistory.org/announcements/ for more information. Please repost.

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This action is ending the US's superiority in cancer and Alzheimer's and AI research, just as surely as ending grants. Public funding for research is important in great part b/c it has made the US a magnet for global talent. Now no student is going to want to come here to be treated like this. 🧪

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I scanned dozens of newspapers from around the U.S. & world. On average, international newspapers cover the widespread protests against Trump/Musk and for democracy much more prominently on their covers than those in the U.S. This isn’t due to deadlines, protests were daytime in the U.S. #handsoff

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#HistoryMatters

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I hope I may speak for my fellow historians of the Great Depression when I say: you do not want our expertise to be relevant

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Yup. TB can live in spit outside the human body for about a day. They won't realize that until about 1900. Then public health campaigns will help make it impolite to spit in public in the U.S. And all those fancy mustaches will get shaved off too out of fear of them carrying TB. #HATM #Tomstone

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Here’s how to stay in the fight: 📱 Use the 5 Calls app or Resist Bot to contact your elected officials daily. 🎤 Demand town halls. Show up at their public appearances. 🚫 Boycott evil corporations. 🗣️ Talk to your friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors. 🌳 Build community power. #FiftyFiftyOne

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It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, April Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers. -Edna St Vincent Millay and some Sunday flowers. #everynightapoem #april

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The entire budget of the National Endowment for the Humanities (which has been devastated by Trump & Musk) is 3% of this.

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🗃️”The arts and the humanities belong to all the people of the United States.”—1965 @nehgov.bsky.social is foundational for all, please help #SavetheNEH, here’s the legislation for inspiration… www.neh.gov/about/histor...

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I just got confirmation that National History Day, a program that does more to ignite K-12 students' love of history, learning, and yes, even the United States than anything else I've ever seen, had all its funding cut yesterday by the DOGE-axe at the NEH - including for this year's ongoing contest.

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An NEH summer workshop for teachers I was going to be part of was also cancelled last night. Furious about this wanton destruction

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Brutal: “The National Endowment for the Humanities, which supports museums, scholarship and historical sites, could see grants curtailed and staffing slashed by up to 80 percent.” bit.ly/3EfIPrg

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Yesterday, the entire staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services were put on administrative leave. AASLH is in conversation with the American Alliance of Museums and other museum associations about legal options to challenge this action. Read more at tinyurl.com/5ah8axrp.

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I’d say it’s worse than mid, and this is where it’s heading. I have not used generative AI and I won’t because I value my own hard-won skills. “Mid tech revolutions have another thing in common: They justify employing fewer people and ask those left behind to do more with less.”

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Much gratitude to Professor @efbrindley.bsky.social and her colleagues for inviting me - I'm honored to deliver the Inaugural Janssen Lecture at Penn State this week! www.psu.edu/news/liberal...

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Check out Rachel Shelden's new article "The Griffin's Case Phenomenon and the Problem of Historical Knowledge in Legal Arguments" in the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal! ⬇️

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The Journal of the Civil War Era will have a special issue on political economy edited by me, @maggor.bsky.social, Sofia Valeonti & Nicolas Barreyre. I'll post again when the link is up on the Muster, but wanted to get the word out now. See CFP. Submission deadline is April 25. 🗃️

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The Department of Defense deemed a story about baseball hero and civil rights leader Jackie Robinson's time in the Army as "DEI" and deleted it.

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It's official: the @apsa.bsky.social Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) is OPEN. Note the deadline this year closes June 1, 2025, at 11:59pm ET Eligibility: - attend a US university - ABD - research on citizenship, government, and politics connect.apsanet.org/ddrig/

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The Calvert County Department of Planning & Zoning, Historic Preservation, in collaboration with the Calvert Historical Society, has launched a new Geographic Information System (GIS) webpage devoted to United States Colored Troops. Check this out. 🗃️ storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/7741...

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Destroying government documents violates the National Archives Act. It is a conscious effort to erase and distort history.

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Celebrate with me: Street renamed for Black woman, civil rights activist Caroline LeCount! LeCount is known as Philadelphia's Rosa Parks after she integrated Philadelphia's trolley carts and fought for desegregation in education. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

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