Emma Wiley
@emmaiwiley.bsky.social
Public Historian | AU MA Alum | Vassar Alum | she/her
Obsessed with DC history and the history of building relocation 🏠
Obsessed with DC history and the history of building relocation 🏠
While I don't work for a state humanities council anymore, I still believe in the power of digital encyclopedias and other reference projects providing crucial access to local historical knowledge. A History@Work post a long time in the making...
New on History@Work. In a time of historical erasure, why should we focus on protecting digital encyclopedias? #PublicHistorian Emma Wiley makes “an argument for the basics.” #blog https://ncph.org/history-at-work/argument-for-the-basics-advocating-for-reference-projects-in-this-time-of-erasure/
An argument for the basics: advocating for reference projects in this time of erasure | National Council on Public History
In this time of erasure and censorship, basic historical reference resources remain crucial—yet often overlooked—tools in providing accessible and inclusive historical knowledge to the public.
ncph.org
December 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
While I don't work for a state humanities council anymore, I still believe in the power of digital encyclopedias and other reference projects providing crucial access to local historical knowledge. A History@Work post a long time in the making...
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- new follower I get
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Help us hire Christina and Martin Full-Time!
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August 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Now through this weekend, I'll donate $1 to @51st.news for each:
- person who reposts this post
- new follower @51st.news ws gets
- new follower @maustermuhle.bsky.social gets
- new follower @christurdisani.bsky.social gets
- new follower I get
And tag/DM me your donation = I'll match it 1:1.
- person who reposts this post
- new follower @51st.news ws gets
- new follower @maustermuhle.bsky.social gets
- new follower @christurdisani.bsky.social gets
- new follower I get
And tag/DM me your donation = I'll match it 1:1.
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Funkstown is delighted to have a special guest column from @emmaiwiley.bsky.social about Foggy Bottom's oldest and relocated houses www.foggybottomassociation.org/post/lenthal...
Lenthall Houses: A Moving History
A special guest column by Emma WileyFunkstown is happy to present a guest post by Emma Wiley. Emma is a public historian with a special interest in collaborating with communities to utilize their hist...
www.foggybottomassociation.org
April 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Funkstown is delighted to have a special guest column from @emmaiwiley.bsky.social about Foggy Bottom's oldest and relocated houses www.foggybottomassociation.org/post/lenthal...
Reposted by Emma Wiley
Co-signed. NCPH urges our members and followers to take action today to defend the National Endowment for the Humanities against DOGE funding cuts for essential #PublicHistory work. Find and write to your representatives at nhalliance.org/federal-fund.... #Advocacy #NEH
April 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Co-signed. NCPH urges our members and followers to take action today to defend the National Endowment for the Humanities against DOGE funding cuts for essential #PublicHistory work. Find and write to your representatives at nhalliance.org/federal-fund.... #Advocacy #NEH
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rather than providing new information reports like this act as bias confirmation for professional historians fixated on retaining authority over content. they are are also the best evidence for how the field needs to change. 1/?
A national survey of public perceptions of and engagement with the historical discipline and the past.
History, the Past, and Public Culture: Results from a National Survey | American Historical Association
This project aspired to take America’s historical pulse by assessing public perceptions of, and engagement with, the discipline of history and the past.
www.historians.org
April 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
rather than providing new information reports like this act as bias confirmation for professional historians fixated on retaining authority over content. they are are also the best evidence for how the field needs to change. 1/?
Love sharing my niche research interests with neighborhood communities! I wrote about the Lenthall Houses relocation in 1978 for the @funkstowndc.bsky.social: www.foggybottomassociation.org/post/lenthal...
April 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Love sharing my niche research interests with neighborhood communities! I wrote about the Lenthall Houses relocation in 1978 for the @funkstowndc.bsky.social: www.foggybottomassociation.org/post/lenthal...
Dismantling the NEH works to fundamentally dismantle our ways of connecting & understanding each other within & across our communities. The NEH funds organizations & programs that impact every corner of the US and enable us to imagine and work towards a better society. Please contact your reps ⬇️
On Monday, March 31, 2025 we learned that DOGE is targeting the NEH with the aim of substantially reducing its staff, cutting the agency’s grant programs, and rescinding grants that have already been awarded.
Learn what steps you can take here: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...
Learn what steps you can take here: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...
Save the NEH! – National Humanities Alliance
nhalliance.org
April 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Dismantling the NEH works to fundamentally dismantle our ways of connecting & understanding each other within & across our communities. The NEH funds organizations & programs that impact every corner of the US and enable us to imagine and work towards a better society. Please contact your reps ⬇️
CT Humanities (not yet on Bluesky) is hiring a grants officer! Salaries, benefitted, full time hybrid position in Connecticut. Please share widely! All details to apply: cthumanities.bamboohr.com/careers/28?s...
Grants Officer II
TITLE: Grants Officer II
REPORTS TO: Deputy Director of Grants and Programs
CLASSIFICATION: Exempt
HOURS: Full time, 37.5 hours per week
SALARY RANGE: $60,000-69,999 annual salary, plus g...
cthumanities.bamboohr.com
January 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
CT Humanities (not yet on Bluesky) is hiring a grants officer! Salaries, benefitted, full time hybrid position in Connecticut. Please share widely! All details to apply: cthumanities.bamboohr.com/careers/28?s...
That feeling when an archivist at the DC Archives thinks your niche research is important and asks when you’re writing a book 🥹
December 20, 2024 at 5:42 PM
That feeling when an archivist at the DC Archives thinks your niche research is important and asks when you’re writing a book 🥹
Drowned towns 🤝 relocated buildings
For those who are interested in 💧 water histories and the displacements caused by infrastructure projects - Bob Reinhardt is building an atlas of drowned towns with communities www.drownedtowns.com
Home | The Atlas of Drowned Towns
Webpage of The Atlas of Drowned Towns
www.drownedtowns.com
November 14, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Drowned towns 🤝 relocated buildings