Wrote a Labor Day op-ed with one of our fantastic undergrads

Announcing the Membership Support Fund | National Council on Public History At their March meeting in Montreal, NCPH’s Council of Past Presidents voted to immediately challenge each other to a special fundraising effort to cover the costs of NCPH memberships for colleagues wh...

It's devastating how many posts I am seeing of dedicated, skilled #publichistorians losing of their jobs under the guise of cost savings. These decisions are short-sighted & I will continue to fight them. Please, stay involved. The American people need you.
@ncph.bsky.social #publichistory

Sheila, in the midst of so much terrible news, I somehow continued to hope this would not happen. You and your colleagues are the best of us — public servants committed to our democracy — which makes this all the more horrific. Thanks to each of you for your work to support the humanities.

Opinion: Student protests are what created the university as we know it | CNN Seeing current campus protests unfold is a reminder that solidarity between protesting students and their teachers in medieval Europe was the origin of the modern-day university, write historians Davi...

read a bit more here by me & @lollardfish.bsky.social in @cnn.com

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Furious and so deeply distressed for all of us but especially our colleagues at NEH

Hi all. I would appreciate it if you reposted @ncph.bsky.social 's below message. Given our inability to circulate this study through normal channels, we want to make sure those that would find these on-access chapters useful learn about them.

It's been really rewarding working on this initiative with the NPS www.nps.gov/orgs/1207/na...