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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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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...

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

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/?

Me too! Thanks for helping me realize house moving as a worthy research topic!

Photo: George Washington University Library and Special Collections

Duplex brick house in the middle of a residential city street being moved via trucks

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 ⬇️

Which local news outlet is going to bring back Date Lab?? (Not WaPo)

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...

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...

And this was after I was the only thing between him and his holiday vacation!

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