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Here it is, my 220th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Please add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

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"An estimated 2,400-2,500 National Park Service employees, roughly 12.5 percent of the agency's entire workforce, have taken Trump administration offers to resign or retire, according to the National Parks Conservation Association." 🗃️ www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/04/more...

submitted 31 minutes ago • 2 comments

One of the reasons why it is so important to highlight this historic site is because the MAAH still exists in the shadows of the Freedom Trail, which was developed after WWII to highlight a history that was intended to rally white Americans at the height of the Cold War. Please visit the MAAH.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

""I don't think the great harm of slavery was the involuntary servitude and the forced labor and all of the cruelty. I think the great harm of slavery was the narrative that we created to justify enslavement."--Bryan Stevenson kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/trump-cuts...

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

"I don't think the great harm of slavery was the involuntary servitude and the forced labor and all of the cruelty. I think the great harm of slavery was the narrative that we created to justify enslavement."--Bryan Stevenson 🗃️ dailyprogress.com/news/local/a...

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

Trump Cuts Funds for Boston's Museum of African American History 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

One of the reasons why it is so important to highlight this historic site is because the MAAH still exists in the shadows of the Freedom Trail, which was developed after WWII to highlight a history that was intended to rally white Americans at the height of the Cold War. Please visit the MAAH.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

@jamellebouie.net is absolutely right. The Trump administration's attempt to rewrite history by censoring it signals a return to a time when Confederate monuments and the Lost Cause narrative justified and reinforced a Jim Crow society.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump Cuts Funds for Boston's Museum of African American History 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

The White House recently directed the termination of thousands of grants from federal agencies that serve the history field, including NEH, IMLS, and NPS. We are asking history orgs that received cancellation letters and emails to send us copies of these notices. Read more at tinyurl.com/479x3r2f.

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I am sick to my stomach and just so sorry for these teachers. If this is how we treat new teachers, why will anyone choose to enter the field? southdakotasearchlight.com/2025/04/10/s...

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As much as any working historian, @simpsonvos.bsky.social has helped to shape the field of Civil War history over the past twenty years through his editorial guidance. One of the high points of my career as a historian has been the opportunity to work with Mark on my last two book projects.

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With talk of "patriotic history" & "celebrating" US founders--and the White House egregiously redirected NEH funding to his atrocious "Garden of Heroes"--I thought I'd give recommendations of solid scholarship that helps you understanding US framers & their world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGqM...

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#otd in 1865, Abraham Lincoln publicly endorsed extending the vote to Black men—in what proved to be the last speech of his life. He spoke from a White House window to a crowd celebrating the fall of Richmond and Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox. 🗃️ chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045...

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Trump Cuts National History Day for a National Garden of American Heroes 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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Trump Cuts National History Day for a National Garden of American Heroes 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

It was never about controlling spending or paying down the federal debt. "[A]bout $17 million from the National Endowment for the Humanities and about $17 million from the National Endowment for the Arts would be directed to the Garden of Heroes." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/a...

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

What Republicans are essentially saying is that the history of white America is ideologically/theory neutral. Anything that hopes to add to or detract from this history is viewed as a threat to the status quo and driven purely by an ideological agenda. 🗃️ www.texastribune.org/2025/04/10/t...

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What Republicans are essentially saying is that the history of white America is ideologically/theory neutral. Anything that hopes to add to or detract from this history is viewed as a threat to the status quo and driven purely by an ideological agenda. 🗃️ www.texastribune.org/2025/04/10/t...

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The Journal of the Early Republic-Panorama have created a portal to track the Trump administration's altering of public interpretations of history and the removing of references to the past on websites and public spaces. 🗃️ thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...

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"This Passover, as for thousands of years, Jews gathered around seder tables will recall the story of our ancestors’ enslavement in Egypt. The purpose of remembering, however, is a little unclear, and, in our time, hotly contested." 🗃️ slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Can't wait to read this one. Congratulations @timgalsworthy.bsky.social.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

It's time we brought back the Commando 450. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

On this day in 1865, Confederate general Robert E. Lee issued his Farewell Address to his troops. Here are a few thoughts. 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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Preview of the Civil War Institute's Annual Conference 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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I'm not sure Otis is very happy, but he's at least a good sport.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Hundreds of enslaved laborers, that were still present with Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, were freed when it finally surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. It is a reminder that enslaved labor was the "cornerstone" of the Confederate war effort. 🗃️

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I've always maintained that Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac had something to do with Lee's decision to surrender his army #OTD in 1865 at Appomattox Court House.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Another Look at Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Farewell Address 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I get to guest lecture tomorrow and I couldn't be happier. I miss teaching.

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"At its most fundamental level, the project of public history in the early twentieth century South was the archiving of white civilization.”--W. Fitzhugh Brundage This is exactly what the Trump administration wants institutions like the Smithsonian and the National Park Service to return to. 🗃️

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Big day for Tar Heels and Civil War history buffs with todays new releases 👏 uncpressblog.com/2025/04/08/n...

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It's a reflection of how far off the cliff we have already gone that this is even being voiced from our White House. The seriousness of her tone and the conviction that she brings to these statements is truly terrifying.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

"At its most fundamental level, the project of public history in the early twentieth century South was the archiving of white civilization.”--W. Fitzhugh Brundage This is exactly what the Trump administration wants institutions like the Smithsonian and the National Park Service to return to. 🗃️

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I hope a reputable museum has the opportunity to procure this important Civil War artifact. 🗃️

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

National Park Service Restores Some Edited Webpages about Harriet Tubman 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment