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Samuel J. Redman
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Historian and former museum professional. Author of Bone Rooms (Harvard, 2016), Prophets and Ghosts (Harvard, 2021), and The Museum (NYU, 2022)
But what does Jelly Roll think about Tax Increment Financing?
February 2, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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The Indigenous feature films include: "Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild]" from directors and producers Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil. Ancestors trapped in museum archives bend time and space to find their way home. ictnews.org/arts-enterta...
Indigenous films to screen at Sundance Film Festival - ICT
Repatriation theme permeates new Indigenous stories at festival, which bids farewell to ‘Sundance Kid’
ictnews.org
December 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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The #GradStudent Travel Award deadline is now April 1, 2026! This award helps cover travel costs for #GradStudent members accepted for inclusion in the NCPH-AASLH 2026 conference program. Five travel awards of $500 each will be given out this year! https://ncph.org/about/awards/student-awards/
January 29, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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K-12 educators, the MHS is offering two teacher workshops this winter:
- Elizabeth Freeman & the End of Slavery in Massachusetts
- Project-Based Learning in the Social Studies Classroom: An Introduction to National History Day in MA

More details on our website:
www.masshist.org/allevents?ca...
January 16, 2026 at 8:04 PM
This is all awful.
January 24, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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Here's one of the panels that Trump just removed from the President's House site in Philadelphia. (I took this picture of it last March. A couple of weeks later I led a walking tour that included the site.) Does this information "disparage" the United States?
January 23, 2026 at 3:08 AM
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The City of Philadelphia is suing the Trump administration after the National Park Service removed a long-standing exhibit on slavery in the city's Independence National Historical Park. https://cnn.it/4jSDTZQ
January 23, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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Jacob Lawrence, They arrived in great numbers into Chicago, the gateway of the West, 1940-41
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134638
January 12, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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The National Portrait Gallery removed a swath of text that mentioned President Trump’s two impeachments and the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection as it swapped out a prominent photo of him this week.
Smithsonian removes Trump impeachment text as it swaps his portrait
A Trump official previously complained about a caption beside his National Portrait Gallery photo mentioning his impeachments and the U.S. Capitol insurrection.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 11, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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The Smithsonian Faces New Pressure to Submit to Trump’s Will

The institution, long regarded as independent, is facing a White House deadline to hand over records about its content and will see turnover that could reshape its governing board.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/a...
The Smithsonian Faces New Pressure to Submit to Trump’s Will
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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Wow, what a time for NMAAHC to be searching for a new Director. Just posted today. www.dsgco.com/search/22472...
January 6, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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What are some of your favorite ways of engaging with #history outside of academia? I love going to museums like Old Sturbridge Village where I can feel like I’m transported to another time for an afternoon. But of course, I also love reading books. historybythebook.substack.com/p/what-is-pu...
What Is Public History?
And how does it help you?
historybythebook.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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NCPH-AASLH 2026 #conference proposals are due today! If you’ve been editing a draft on @aaslh.org’s Submittable platform, don't forget to actually click “submit” before midnight tonight. https://loom.ly/ixDV318 #WorkOfRevolution
December 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This is a great way to honor the legacy of John Bracey, who was a remarkable presence on our campus at UMass. I miss him.

Chancellor’s Leadership Awards Renamed the Professor John H. Bracey Jr. Leadership Awards - www.umass.edu/news/article...
Chancellor’s Leadership Awards Renamed the Professor John H. Bracey Jr. Leadership Awards | UMass Amherst
Nominations are being accepted until Dec. 15 for the Professor John H. Bracey Jr. Leadership Awards, which will be presented to three outstanding members of the UMass Amherst community at the annual M...
www.umass.edu
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Did you miss the last write-in? Join the next one on Dec. 8 from 6-7pm ET! Write to your representatives to advocate for #history in good company, with the NCPH #Advocacy Committee, @oah.org, and friends! https://community.ncph.org/event/postcard-writing-dec-2025
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?

We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.

Find out more:

collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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The History Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for an Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle East. Areas of specialization are open. Please share! - careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... #History #Historians
Details - Asst Professor U of M | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
careers.umass.edu
November 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The History Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for an Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle East. Areas of specialization are open. Please share! - careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... #History #Historians
Details - Asst Professor U of M | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
careers.umass.edu
November 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
"Students who began their doctorates in September 2023 have now entered their final year of funding without access to British Library digitisations and, for long periods, without access to British Library manuscripts." - www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Many internet services disrupted after Cloudflare warns of service issues - Cloudflare said that it was "experiencing an internal service degradation." www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
Many internet services disrupted after Cloudflare warns of service issues
Cloudflare said that it was "experiencing an internal service degradation."
www.nbcnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Public historians, I am running for the NCPH Board of Directors, and I hope you will support me. Reach out to me with your ideas about the future of public history! ncph.org/wp-content/u...
ncph.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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The #PublicHistory Educator’s Meet Up is an informal, 45-minute zoom gathering, centered on an organizing question or theme. For our first meeting of the semester, join us for a "therapy session" on November 19 at 4 pm Eastern! Register at: https://community.ncph.org/event/educator-therapy.
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM