Shawna Atkins
@shawnaatkins.bsky.social
Architectural Historian & Artist in Louisiana.
Cultural Resource Management, Cultural Anthro, Folklife & Folklore, Vernacular Art & Architecture.
My art is @sixgreenstars.bsky.social
Cultural Resource Management, Cultural Anthro, Folklife & Folklore, Vernacular Art & Architecture.
My art is @sixgreenstars.bsky.social
First Catholic women’s college in Louisiana: St Marry’s Dominican College, now Greenville Hall of Loyola. Built ca. 1880 by William Fitzner. St Charles Avenue, New Orleans.
July 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
First Catholic women’s college in Louisiana: St Marry’s Dominican College, now Greenville Hall of Loyola. Built ca. 1880 by William Fitzner. St Charles Avenue, New Orleans.
“By the 1970s, occupational disease was estimated to kill up to 100,000 Americans a year.” Alan Derickson unravels the social/political forces.. that led to a movement for a workers' right to know about threats. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... #publichistory #laborhistory #workersrights
Fighting Toxic Ignorance by Alan Derickson | Paperback | Cornell University Press
Fighting Toxic Ignorance explores conflict over access to information regarding health hazards encountered in the US workplace during the first three-quarters of the twentieth century. Alan Derickson....
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
May 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
“By the 1970s, occupational disease was estimated to kill up to 100,000 Americans a year.” Alan Derickson unravels the social/political forces.. that led to a movement for a workers' right to know about threats. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... #publichistory #laborhistory #workersrights
savingplaces.org/stories/maki... #preservationmatters #historicpreservation #resist #architecturalhistorians
Making Your Voice Heard: 5 Issues Important to Historic Preservation | National Trust for Historic Preservation
Connect with other organization, refresh your advocacy toolbox, and fight for the issues that are important to the work of historic preservation.
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May 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Today we spent time with community members cleaning the Woodland Plantation historic marker along with trash surrounding it.
While it doesn’t tell the whole story, this sign holds space for descendants of enslaved people who live adjacent to the historic sites that affected their ancestors.
While it doesn’t tell the whole story, this sign holds space for descendants of enslaved people who live adjacent to the historic sites that affected their ancestors.
April 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Today we spent time with community members cleaning the Woodland Plantation historic marker along with trash surrounding it.
While it doesn’t tell the whole story, this sign holds space for descendants of enslaved people who live adjacent to the historic sites that affected their ancestors.
While it doesn’t tell the whole story, this sign holds space for descendants of enslaved people who live adjacent to the historic sites that affected their ancestors.
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I believe there should be a law that would automatically protect all trees from unnecessary felling.
Too many are left unprotected under current rules.
It's time we gave our trees the same care we give our historic buildings.
Too many are left unprotected under current rules.
It's time we gave our trees the same care we give our historic buildings.
April 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I believe there should be a law that would automatically protect all trees from unnecessary felling.
Too many are left unprotected under current rules.
It's time we gave our trees the same care we give our historic buildings.
Too many are left unprotected under current rules.
It's time we gave our trees the same care we give our historic buildings.
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The Hawkes Children’s Library, which sits on the bank of the Chattahoochee in West Point. Built in 1922, with funding by Andrew Carnegie and Albert King Hawkes. Back when the wealthy built libraries instead of defunding them. #westpointga #libraries #hawkeschildrenslibraries
April 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The Hawkes Children’s Library, which sits on the bank of the Chattahoochee in West Point. Built in 1922, with funding by Andrew Carnegie and Albert King Hawkes. Back when the wealthy built libraries instead of defunding them. #westpointga #libraries #hawkeschildrenslibraries
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Elon Musk’s staffers are trying to push into the National Gallery of Art. They recently met with the museum’s director and legal team, to question its legal status and explore ways to assert influence. One of the nation’s most respected art institutions is now in their crosshairs.
April 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Elon Musk’s staffers are trying to push into the National Gallery of Art. They recently met with the museum’s director and legal team, to question its legal status and explore ways to assert influence. One of the nation’s most respected art institutions is now in their crosshairs.
Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release.
The algorithm that determines parole eligibility in Louisiana doesn't factor in rehabilitation efforts. It only considers past factors like criminal history and prior parole violations - things prisoners can't change no matter how they improve themselves.
TIGER, the algorithm banning Louisiana prisoners from parole
A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release. Civil rights attorneys say it could disproportionately harm Black...
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April 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release.
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> Interestingly, historic sites commemorating the Confederacy are conspicuously absent and exempt from Trump’s federal cost-cutting.
The Trump regime is targeting America’s Black history — dismissing it as government waste. Aiming to quickly dispose of the monuments and facts of our past.
DOGE-driven cuts led the General Services Administration — the agency that manages federal property — to put the historic Montgomery,…
DOGE-driven cuts led the General Services Administration — the agency that manages federal property — to put the historic Montgomery,…
April 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
> Interestingly, historic sites commemorating the Confederacy are conspicuously absent and exempt from Trump’s federal cost-cutting.
"Law enforcement once stopped a woman’s funeral in progress, leaving a freshly dug grave open. The deceased had to be taken back to the funeral home, where she sat for a week" bc #Westlake Co. says it owns a #HistoricCemetery that the #Black community has a deed to. www.mpbonline.org/blogs/news/p...
Place, Erased: The fight for the remains of a Louisiana town
Toxic pollution forced a small, Black community in Louisiana to relocate. Now, chemical companies say they own its final remnant — the town’s cemetery.
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April 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
"Law enforcement once stopped a woman’s funeral in progress, leaving a freshly dug grave open. The deceased had to be taken back to the funeral home, where she sat for a week" bc #Westlake Co. says it owns a #HistoricCemetery that the #Black community has a deed to. www.mpbonline.org/blogs/news/p...
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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.
Trump Cuts Funds for Boston's Museum of African American History 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Trump Cuts Funds for Boston's Museum of African American History
When people ask me to take them to the most important historic site in Boston, I take them to the Museum of African American History (MAAH) on Beacon Hill.
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April 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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.
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The MAAH does a lot of great work and protects one of the most interesting historic buildings in the city. @universalhub.com
Massachusetts’ Museum of African American History learned Wednesday night a three-year federal grant was terminated. Its leader worries their work is at risk after President Donald Trump issued an executive order targeting the Smithsonian last month.
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Mass. Museum of African American History loses federal grant
The president of the state’s Museum of African American History, which has locations in Boston and on Nantucket, is worried about the president’s call to reframe history.
www.wgbh.org
April 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The MAAH does a lot of great work and protects one of the most interesting historic buildings in the city. @universalhub.com
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Help track changes to national parks and historic sites!
The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic is asking the public to help them track changes the Trump Admin is making to history-- in national parks, websites, wherever. Please share-- and please contribute! thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...
The Early Republic Tracker
The Early Republic Tracker documents instances where the federal government is removing facts and stories essential to the public’s understanding American history from public historical sites, muse…
thepanorama.shear.org
April 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Help track changes to national parks and historic sites!
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Today, Senators introduced the ‘Fix Our Forests Act.”
The bill would stifle citizen voices, remove science from land management decisions & facilitate a large scale rollback of the Endangered Species Act, National Historic Preservation Act, & National Environmental Policy Act.
The bill would stifle citizen voices, remove science from land management decisions & facilitate a large scale rollback of the Endangered Species Act, National Historic Preservation Act, & National Environmental Policy Act.
Earthjustice Statement on Senate Fix Our Forests Act
“Congress should support real solutions like the Community Protection and Wildfire Resiliency Act that put the safety and needs of communities over the timber industry’s profits.”
earthjustice.org
April 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Today, Senators introduced the ‘Fix Our Forests Act.”
The bill would stifle citizen voices, remove science from land management decisions & facilitate a large scale rollback of the Endangered Species Act, National Historic Preservation Act, & National Environmental Policy Act.
The bill would stifle citizen voices, remove science from land management decisions & facilitate a large scale rollback of the Endangered Species Act, National Historic Preservation Act, & National Environmental Policy Act.
Let me be clear: the so-called SAVE Act is not about security. It is not about election integrity. It is about suppression — pure and simple. This bill is a modern-day poll tax cloaked in patriotic rhetoric, and it represents one of the most dangerous assaults on the right to vote in a generation.
April 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Gravehouse, interior view. Haw Creek Cemetery. Forsyth County. The burials occurred in 1875 and 1882, so obviously the gravehouse has had repair work done. The original roof (either tin or wooden shingles I would guess) has been replaced with synthetic materials. #georgiacemeteries #gravehouse
April 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Explore some of the flora native to National Trust Historic Sites and Historic Artists' Homes & Studios. #nativegardening #nativeplants #artiststudio #historicpres #nationaltrust savingplaces.org/stories/23-n...
What's Your Zone? 23 Native Plants to Fill Your Garden | National Trust for Historic Preservation
Explore some of the flora native to National Trust Historic Sites and Historic Artists' Homes and Studios.
savingplaces.org
April 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Explore some of the flora native to National Trust Historic Sites and Historic Artists' Homes & Studios. #nativegardening #nativeplants #artiststudio #historicpres #nationaltrust savingplaces.org/stories/23-n...
The #Folklore Advocacy Toolkit is a guide to promoting and sustaining folklore work in the United States, including tips and case studies specific to #nonprofit organizations, higher education, independent #folklorists, and community scholars. americanfolkloresociety.org/second-editi...
Second Edition of Folklore Advocacy Toolkit Now Available as Downloadable PDF - The American Folklore Society
The second edition of the Folklore Advocacy Toolkit, produced by the Media and Public Outreach Committee, is now available for download from the AFS website. The Folklore Advocacy Toolkit is a guide t...
americanfolkloresociety.org
April 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The #Folklore Advocacy Toolkit is a guide to promoting and sustaining folklore work in the United States, including tips and case studies specific to #nonprofit organizations, higher education, independent #folklorists, and community scholars. americanfolkloresociety.org/second-editi...
Katrina memorial honoring “The Good Samaritan” during the storm. St Bernard Parish Courthouse. #Louisiana #stbernardparish #hurricanekatrina #sculpture
March 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Katrina memorial honoring “The Good Samaritan” during the storm. St Bernard Parish Courthouse. #Louisiana #stbernardparish #hurricanekatrina #sculpture
Camelback shotgun house. Lower 9th ward. #NewOrleans #neworleansarchitecture #neworleans #shotgunhouse #Blackhistory
March 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Camelback shotgun house. Lower 9th ward. #NewOrleans #neworleansarchitecture #neworleans #shotgunhouse #Blackhistory
#Columbia expelled student #antiNazi protestors in 1936. USA protects the KKK, who collectively murdered Black people. Yet, peacefully protesting a country that the Hague said is committing genocide is some how antisemitic and illegal. K. #AntonyLoewestein has the answer. #MahmoudKhalil #Khalil
March 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
#Columbia expelled student #antiNazi protestors in 1936. USA protects the KKK, who collectively murdered Black people. Yet, peacefully protesting a country that the Hague said is committing genocide is some how antisemitic and illegal. K. #AntonyLoewestein has the answer. #MahmoudKhalil #Khalil
New Analysis Finds Immigrants have 150 Years of Lower Incarceration Rates Relative to U.S.-Born
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Forget What You Know about Immigrants and Crime
New research finds that for the past 150 years, immigrants in the United States have had lower incarceration rates than the U.S.-born, and since the 1960s that gap has significantly grown.
lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu
March 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
New Analysis Finds Immigrants have 150 Years of Lower Incarceration Rates Relative to U.S.-Born
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If you care about preserving online resources being scrubbed from federal gov't websites, support the work of the Internet Archive. I've used it for teaching, research, and writing. I donated & hope you will, too.
archive.org
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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March 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
If you care about preserving online resources being scrubbed from federal gov't websites, support the work of the Internet Archive. I've used it for teaching, research, and writing. I donated & hope you will, too.
archive.org
archive.org