kristen baldwin deathridge
@k10death.bsky.social
i’m in the us south, an assoc prof, into public history, preservation, digital history, archaeology, & pedagogy; also into pop culture, star trek, happy endings fic, cats—
still figuring it all out
still figuring it all out
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Historic Places are the cornerstone of the National Park Service mission, and they (almost) always have been.
How did the national parks grow from Yellowstone and Yosemite to include historic preservation? @ddmeringolo.bsky.social explains the early history of the NPS in #AHAPerspectives. 🗃️
The Park Service Mandate
What makes a national park? What is a national park for? And what is the foundation of park management? These questions were essential in the early days of the US National Park Service.
www.historians.org
July 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Historic Places are the cornerstone of the National Park Service mission, and they (almost) always have been.
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No one in my Bluesky circle needs to hear this, but Black history is American history. The Greensboro lunch counter is a place where brave Americans defended freedom and equality against bigotry. It represents my patriotism; it is patriotic to demand and shape an America that lives up to its ideals.
Trump orders ‘ideology’ removed from Smithsonian. What about NC sit-ins exhibit?
We fact-check a report that the Trump administration ordered pieces of the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter from Greensboro to be removed from the Smithsonian Institution.
www.newsobserver.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
No one in my Bluesky circle needs to hear this, but Black history is American history. The Greensboro lunch counter is a place where brave Americans defended freedom and equality against bigotry. It represents my patriotism; it is patriotic to demand and shape an America that lives up to its ideals.
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Also on 4/30! "A Conversation with Harry S. Truman Library and Museum Director Mark Adams" at 6pm ET. Join Mark Adams for a conversation about #PublicHistory jobs and museum education. Register at community.ncph.org/events/Event.... #Museums #PublicHistoryJobs #MuseumEducataion
April 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Also on 4/30! "A Conversation with Harry S. Truman Library and Museum Director Mark Adams" at 6pm ET. Join Mark Adams for a conversation about #PublicHistory jobs and museum education. Register at community.ncph.org/events/Event.... #Museums #PublicHistoryJobs #MuseumEducataion
i’ve been excited for this keynote and two minutes in, Dr. Tara White has me tearing up. talking solidarity at #NCPH2025 “until i close my eyes, i’ll be doing history”
March 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
i’ve been excited for this keynote and two minutes in, Dr. Tara White has me tearing up. talking solidarity at #NCPH2025 “until i close my eyes, i’ll be doing history”
if you haven't been to the MEM yet, entrance is free with your NCPH badge! They are open late tonight as well #NCPH2025 their website: memmtl.ca/en/
MEM – Centre des mémoires montréalaises | memmtl.ca/en
Museum and civic space in Montreal
memmtl.ca
March 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
if you haven't been to the MEM yet, entrance is free with your NCPH badge! They are open late tonight as well #NCPH2025 their website: memmtl.ca/en/
join us for our working group this morning in drummond west: Public Historians, Empathetic People: Building Humane Leadership and Work Cultures #NCPH2025
March 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
join us for our working group this morning in drummond west: Public Historians, Empathetic People: Building Humane Leadership and Work Cultures #NCPH2025
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The historic preservation field has adopted a specific advocacy approach, but as Brad White questioned - is it the right approach? Is this the approach we should continue to utilize as threats to cultural heritage work emerge? #HistoricPreservation #PublicHistory www.sarahmarsom.com/news/2025/2/...
Let's Talk About Preservation Advocacy — Sarah Marsom
The historic preservation field has adopted a specific advocacy approach, but as Brad White questioned - is it the right approach? Is this the approach we should continue to utilize as our peers are f...
www.sarahmarsom.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The historic preservation field has adopted a specific advocacy approach, but as Brad White questioned - is it the right approach? Is this the approach we should continue to utilize as threats to cultural heritage work emerge? #HistoricPreservation #PublicHistory www.sarahmarsom.com/news/2025/2/...
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Once again, please immediately stop feeding your cats any raw food— no raw milk, no raw meat. This includes commercial diets, homemade diets, and freeze dried raw treats and meal toppers
There are no proven benefits to raw feeding yet plenty of serious, well-documented risks. It has never been a good idea but ESPECIALLY NOW. washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/two-w...
Two Washington cats infected with bird flu • Washington State Standard
Two domestic cats in Washington state have been infected with bird flu after eating raw pet food, according to the department of agriculture.
washingtonstatestandard.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Once again, please immediately stop feeding your cats any raw food— no raw milk, no raw meat. This includes commercial diets, homemade diets, and freeze dried raw treats and meal toppers
i’m really going to need every weekday to stop feeling like some horrible combo of both monday and friday vibes at the same time. i can’t take it
February 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
i’m really going to need every weekday to stop feeling like some horrible combo of both monday and friday vibes at the same time. i can’t take it
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hi, are you doomscrolling?
So many things are chaotic and unsettling right now. But staying up late doomscrolling will also make things harder. Try to do something offline, go to bed early and charge your phone away from your bedroom. You still deserve time to adequately rest and recover.
So many things are chaotic and unsettling right now. But staying up late doomscrolling will also make things harder. Try to do something offline, go to bed early and charge your phone away from your bedroom. You still deserve time to adequately rest and recover.
February 24, 2025 at 3:21 AM
hi, are you doomscrolling?
So many things are chaotic and unsettling right now. But staying up late doomscrolling will also make things harder. Try to do something offline, go to bed early and charge your phone away from your bedroom. You still deserve time to adequately rest and recover.
So many things are chaotic and unsettling right now. But staying up late doomscrolling will also make things harder. Try to do something offline, go to bed early and charge your phone away from your bedroom. You still deserve time to adequately rest and recover.
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P.S. There are avian flu outbreaks in many countries right now, and yet most (I did not say “all” because I haven’t done a survey of the 100+ countries with outbreaks) do not have the runaway egg prices that we are seeing.
This is illegal price fixing. It’s just happening in the US.
This is illegal price fixing. It’s just happening in the US.
February 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
P.S. There are avian flu outbreaks in many countries right now, and yet most (I did not say “all” because I haven’t done a survey of the 100+ countries with outbreaks) do not have the runaway egg prices that we are seeing.
This is illegal price fixing. It’s just happening in the US.
This is illegal price fixing. It’s just happening in the US.
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I wish more people were talking about egg prices as less of a “muh egg prices!” thing and more about the fact that there is an organized egg cartel that is illegally price gouging and almost certainly illegally price fixing and reaping massive, gigantic profits.
February 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I wish more people were talking about egg prices as less of a “muh egg prices!” thing and more about the fact that there is an organized egg cartel that is illegally price gouging and almost certainly illegally price fixing and reaping massive, gigantic profits.
spending today (and last night) at boone docs, a festival of southern appalachian short documentaries. if you’re looking to deepen ties in your community, i highly recommend attending a similar event near you
February 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
spending today (and last night) at boone docs, a festival of southern appalachian short documentaries. if you’re looking to deepen ties in your community, i highly recommend attending a similar event near you
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I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner
February 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner
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Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.
February 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.
watching a sport and that guy shows up and they keep featuring him. just a note to stations, i’m switching off every time this happens
February 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
watching a sport and that guy shows up and they keep featuring him. just a note to stations, i’m switching off every time this happens
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Hey #HistSTM #HistSci colleagues - got someone looking for intro texts on non-western contributions to western science (and their erasure/appropriation) through ancient/early modern period & on decolonising the story of the scientific revolution etc. pls offer reading recommendations! 📇
February 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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The new Trump administration has illegally removed far more people from their jobs because of speech and beliefs in the last month than the entire list of cancelled or pressured people (many of whom were criticized, not fired) compiled by FIRE and others over years.
It’s not remotely close.
It’s not remotely close.
First, the activist ‘overreach’ mostly consisted of low-stakes, cherry-picked anecdotes. The police were not defunded. Words were not banned. White men were not barred from college.
The backlash is responding to the *possibility* of social change, not actual change.
The backlash is responding to the *possibility* of social change, not actual change.
February 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The new Trump administration has illegally removed far more people from their jobs because of speech and beliefs in the last month than the entire list of cancelled or pressured people (many of whom were criticized, not fired) compiled by FIRE and others over years.
It’s not remotely close.
It’s not remotely close.
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What we’re seeing is not the pendulum swinging back toward the right after the left went too far. We’re seeing a moral panic, a society-wide assault on a phantom leftist who wants to ban Dr. Seuss and arrest you for using the wrong pronouns and put kitty litter boxes in classrooms.
February 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
What we’re seeing is not the pendulum swinging back toward the right after the left went too far. We’re seeing a moral panic, a society-wide assault on a phantom leftist who wants to ban Dr. Seuss and arrest you for using the wrong pronouns and put kitty litter boxes in classrooms.
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I don’t remember mass action from STEM folks when Jeff Sessions attacked the NEH in 2015 and I’m still mad about it. But. That’s not gonna stop me fighting for the NIH and NSF.
I will happily subsidize STEM research every day. We NEED doctors and engineers. The issue is large scale dismissal of my field, not how we fund.
The current admin is going after medicine and science. If they take us out, too, that's fine. But it isn't the goal of slashing NSF and NIH.
The current admin is going after medicine and science. If they take us out, too, that's fine. But it isn't the goal of slashing NSF and NIH.
February 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I don’t remember mass action from STEM folks when Jeff Sessions attacked the NEH in 2015 and I’m still mad about it. But. That’s not gonna stop me fighting for the NIH and NSF.
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February 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
just makes me want to weep. i can’t stop thinking about all of the federal employees and the important jobs they do
"I get to do my best every day to support good jobs for people that really care about collecting, preserving, and providing access to the cultural record . . . in a context where I have job security as a federal employee and where I know the staff and teams I work with have that job security."
How Trevor Owens Does History
"In all honesty, I have my dream job."
contingentmagazine.org
February 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
just makes me want to weep. i can’t stop thinking about all of the federal employees and the important jobs they do