Representing Slavery, Representing Freedom: Revisiting a familiar daguerreotype  | The New York Historical Caesar, the subject of an 1851 daguerreotype, challenges long-established cultural narratives.

I wrote about this daguerreotype @nyhistory.bsky.social and its representation of a man who lived through slavery and the abolition of slavery in New York. www.nyhistory.org/blogs/caesar...

Say it Cory

A letter to NEH on compliance with Trump orders (opinion) New funding conditions imposed to comply with Trump’s executive orders undercut the national humanities agency’s very mission, Jonathan P. Eburne writes.

NEH’s compliance with executive orders to exclude projects promoting “gender ideology,” “discriminatory equity ideology” and “environmental justice initiatives” is just 🤯🤯🤯. Who decides? White male history is enuf? www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Library Funding Targeted in New Trump Executive Order: What It Means & What To Do Now What the Executive Order slashing the Institute of Museum and Library Services means, how it will impact you, and what you should do right now to stop the cuts.

Write and call your Senators and to your Representative at the federal level. Public libraries are vital and under threat, cuts are especially debilitating in rural areas. Demand they speak up and defend the budget of IMLS. bookriot.com/imls-executi...

Historian / Library friends, can anyone recommend a good online course on conducting an oral history?

Closed DEIA Offices Volunteer Project READ ALL OF THIS BEFORE YOU SUBMIT THE FORM We are in the process of trying to save what remains of closed and closing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility offices throughout the US. We ha...

Invisible Histories is looking for volunteers who can assist with documenting and preserving information from DEIA offices that have been closed or are facing closure. Read more and sign up here:

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Congrats girl!

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.”

I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

More limits to access to information, staff cuts at the very top

News & Politics

Best recent subscription: @texasmonthly.bsky.social. They’re doing great work going deep on Trump and Texas culture, read here: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/

Hi! It would be great to have a copy, I’ve got a new address and will write you!

I need to read this!

You could make a strong case for any of these: Memphis, Clarksdale Mississippi, Chicago, St. Louis and Houston.