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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/09/2026

Internal emails and documents obtained by The New York Times demonstrate President Trump’s political capture of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...

Debris from fallen ceiling plaster soiled the carpet in the Grand Foyer inside the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. A headline reads: "How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center." Photo by Salwan Georges for The New York Times.

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Kathryn Holliday @kehcalling.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

20 fantastic scholars and 20 amazing essays. We worked hard on this and are glad to able to share it now!

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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Looking for fresh material for your architectural history syllabus? Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Assoc Ed Sheila Crane explores how JSAH roundtables can spark new conversations in the classroom. @sah1365.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/r...

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Revitalize Your Syllabi with “Architectural History and Trans Experience” & JSAH Roundtables

Refresh your syllabus with JSAH Roundtables that bring timely, field-expanding perspectives on trans experiences, race, Indigeneity, and global architectural histories into the classroom.

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Society of Architectural Historians @sah1365.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Early registration is now open for SAH's 6th annual Virtual Conference! This 3-day online event offers paper sessions and roundtables showcasing research in architectural history by scholars around the world. View the preliminary program: sah.org/conferences/...

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Chicago Architecture Center @chiarchitecture.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Do you love Chicago's courtyard buildings? They may soon be on the National Register of Historic Places. bit.ly/3R1g1sZ 📸: Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

Elegant courtyard of a historic building, featuring a central fountain, manicured lawns, and symmetrical pathways lined with shrubs and flowers. The surrounding architecture displays classic stonework and numerous windows.

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Kathryn Holliday @kehcalling.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This is a local historic preservation action call! While there is so much preservation trouble at rhe national level, it is equally rough on the ground. Urbana, Illinois Civic Center crtitcal landmark vote Monday night. Read more here www.smilepolitely.com/opinion/the-...

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The Urbana Civic Center is a reminder of the positive power of public space - Opinion

The Urbana Civic Center remains a subject of hope and debate and is on the agenda again for the Monday, June 22 Urbana City Council meeting. The Urbana Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) voted Jun...

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

"'I have no confidence, whatsoever, that my administration will support faculty if academic freedom is under assault,' one [survey response read]...'In the past few weeks, administrators have told faculty to not speak, teach or research certain things.'" www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

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Faculty Actually Are Trying to Flee Red States

Following a year of anecdotes about professors uprooting themselves from Republican-controlled states over academic freedom concerns, a new survey provides evidence that their experiences reflect a br...

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Julia Barton @bartona104.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

"The key to radio's future does not lie, as so many broadcasters seem to think, in doing more cheaply what television can do...Rather the key to radio's future lies in another direction: doing the things that television cannot do." File under: unheeded advice, 1952. www.nytimes.com/1952/06/01/a...

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REALISTIC APPROACH; Radio Should Do Things That Video Cannot (Published 1952)

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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Just confirming that Made by History will now be back up and running in the next few weeks with a new home and new partners at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Exciting! So, if you have pitches, now's the time to start sending them to madebyhistory@inquirer.com 🗃️ #MadebyHistory #HistoryMatters

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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

This is a long shot given how local my network is on here but I’ve complied a fair amount of resources on how to identify the vehicles and agents involved in these raids and what to do if you see them. Happy to share with anybody looking to set up patrols in New Orleans or Charlotte, DM me

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Kathryn Holliday @kehcalling.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

This is a fantastic set of reflections on the meaning of the American South and how we teach, research, and talk about it

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Kathryn Holliday @kehcalling.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

"Instead of focusing on what computer vision can achieve in processing images, I want to offer a historical account of the language and the feelings used to frame its imagined role in art-historical practice." www.artforum.com/features/gen...

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MACHINE YEARNING

Sonja Drimmer critically examines art historians’ recent embrace of generative AI as a tool for humanities research.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

J. D. Vance: I’m here to surprise a really deserving family with a total home makeover! The family is the Trumps! Donald, the patriarch, is the monarch of a small, backwater nation. He’s hoping to completely redo his house so that one day, he can pass it down to his kids!

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Extreme Home Makeover: White House Edition

This old, fly-infested building needs some work.

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Kathryn Holliday @kehcalling.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

"Understanding what this place offers is deepened by learning how it came to be."

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Kathryn Holliday @kehcalling.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Our local arts & culture mag wrote a super nice piece on my students' work documenting neighborhood histories in postwar Champaign-Urbana (thank you!) - very proud of the student work and look forward to adding to this project with future classes www.smilepolitely.com/culture/stud...

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Student work expands the scope of Krannert Art Museum's magnificent exhibit -

Those of us who call Urbana-Champaign home know it’s not quite like any other place. There’s a certain spirit in the air—faint strains of music echoing across streets that connect our two cities. It’s...

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Kathryn Holliday @kehcalling.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Historic Preservation job in my hometown - the Preservation Resource Center is in such a lovely Gothic Revival warehouse by the GNO bridge. Great opportunity to help make preservation work in New Orleans! preservenet.org/job/preserva...

Photograph of a three-story warehouse building with Gothic revival details on the second and third stories, and cast iron columns with wide doors between them on the ground floor

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Elizabeth Blasius @blaservations.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

New from me in Mas Context: In February NPS removed Transgender and Queer from the Stonewall National Monument website. NPS also removed LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer History—the 1st federal account of the LGBTQ community.

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Stonewall: Movement, Monument, Myth

In February 2025, under the orders of the Trump administration, the National Park Service (NPS) removed the words “Transgender” and “Queer” from the…

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

This point is not made enough. The US has an embarrassment of riches of great colleges and universities. There are strong institutions in every state. It’s as if those places don’t count.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 17/05/2025

Everyone deserves dignity and equality regardless of who they are or who they love. On International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, know that Illinois stands with our LGBTQ+ community. Hate has no home here in the Land of Lincoln.

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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

My book's pub day is next week, so sharing bits! In 1925, Paul R. Williams, the 1st Black registered architect in California, designed this house for a competition held by a Santa Barbara-based org. The design was inspired by Mexican buildings, but white architects tried to minimize those influences

Black and white architectural drawing including plans of site and interior of a Spanish-Colonial revival style house.

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Society of Architectural Historians @sah1365.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The Society of Architectural Historians welcomes paper submissions for its 79th Annual International Conference in Mexico City April 15-19, 2026. 50+ sessions target diverse topics across the length and breadth of history. Submit by June 5, 2025. www.sah.org/docs/default...

Text overlay reads: Society for Architectural Historians 79th Annual International Conference. CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline June 5. Mexico City 2026 | April 15-19.

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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

May I recommend my book if you want fires, oil spills, eugenics, earthquakes, mudslides, unfriendly neighbors, the mores of the wealthy, beautiful beaches and mountains, and a reference to HBO’s Succession AND the Duchess of Sussex in one tidy package on sale? press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Natural Attachments

A nuanced analysis takes a California oil spill as its point of departure to show how affluent homeowners pushed for an environmentalism that would protect not only the earth but also property and com...

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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

From The Clay Studio in Philadelphia (and I’m part of the team 😎): “How do we observe the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States in 2026? How has the Declaration of Independence been commemorated or criticized in the past?” (1/2)

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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Ireland phone. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1... #StPatricksDay

A wall phone that is green and in the shape of Ireland.

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SHOT, Society for the History of Technology @shothisttech.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

SHOT 2025 Open sessions Individuals and groups interested in finding others to join an organized session can submit an open session proposal to be posted on the open sessions list below. The list will be updated daily until March 23th, 2025. www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeti...

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2025 SHOT Annual Meeting Luxembourg

Visit the post for more.

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Thaisa Way @thaisaway.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

If you think they will not notice you consider the words listed below. They include or describe work across disciplines, practices, and world views. Stand up now

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Kathryn Holliday @kehcalling.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Spotted in the wild! Terrific new book on architect, engineer & teacher Nathan Ricker, founder of the first public university program in architecture at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1873. The architects of 19th c. Chicago were shaped by his rigorous teaching - a great new resource!

Photograph of a book cover for The Elements of Construction: N. Clifford Ricker, Architecture, and the University of Illinois, shown in front of the main entrance to the Architecture Building and Ricker Library on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19/02/2025

Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let despair overcome us when our country needs us the most.

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Kathryn Holliday @kehcalling.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Another home from the Making Place for the Arts exhibition - the Dot and John Replinger House & Studios, designed by John (architect) for him and his wife Dorothy, a fiber artist and weaver whose work should be (much!) better known. The work here is "Sainte Chapelle" made for the home's entry hall

A photograph of an installation showing a large hand-woven tapestry with jewel tones of orange, red, purple, blue, olive, and brown hanging on a white-painted wall adjacent to a vitrine showing an artist's sketchbook

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Kathryn Holliday @kehcalling.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

From our exhibition, Making Place for the Arts at Home, the first of 4 houses: the Margaret Erlanger House designed for the professor who established the Department of Dance at Illinois (architect Jack Baker, 1964). A radically simple design, double-height living room + space for dance, music, art

Photograph in black and white showing two dancers in leotards in simple dance positions, posing inside a modern home, in front of a suspended fire hood and double height loft

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utlibraries.bsky.social @utlibraries.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

📢 Big news: UT's Architecture & Planning Library has been renamed to honor John S. Chase, Texas’ 1st Black licensed architect & 1st Black graduate of UT’s School of Architecture. Celebrate a legacy of breaking barriers & building community. 🏛️ ow.ly/6iHY50UM6T3

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Kathryn Holliday @kehcalling.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Our exhibition is open! Highlighting 4 houses that facilitate performance, designed by architecture faculty for colleagues & themselves. Over the next few days I'll share about the houses, for now here's the exhibition webpage with much supporting archival material kam.illinois.edu/exhibition/m...

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Making Place for the Arts at Home: Performance and Midcentury Modern Architecture | Krannert Art Museum

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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

While the adaptive reuse and retrofit of heritage buildings is currently the main topic of discussion in the world of architecture, the humble telephone box has been a trailblazer in this for decades: from micro-galleries to farm shops, lending libraries to food banks.

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Kathryn Holliday @kehcalling.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Since moving to Illinois a year and a half ago, I've been working on a project about a group of postwar modernist architects in Champaign-Urbana (and started living in a crazy house by one of them). The exhibition based on part of that work is being installed now - look forward to sharing more soon!

View of a museum gallery with white walls with a photograph and abstract sculpture being installed

View of a museum gallery with white walls with a photograph of a piano inside a house and architectural drawings being installed

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Kathryn Holliday @kehcalling.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Great list for historic preservation folks!

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Kathryn Holliday @kehcalling.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

These photographs and drone views of corn infrastructure in Decatur, Illinois are fascinating - nature's metropolis through the looking glass

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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The joint PhD program in Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Illinois is recruiting 2 students in architectural history with generous funding to start in Fall 2025. The program has a deep bench of core and affiliated faculty from across the university. More info: www.sah.org/jobs-opportu...

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Fellowships for Graduate Study in Architectural History and Preservation at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

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Kathryn Holliday @kehcalling.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Hello Bluesky - quiet poster here sharing architecture, urbanism, and heritage/preservation research and teaching, plus telephone buildings (like this favorite in Columbus, Indiana).

A building with tall red and blue exhaust pipes

A building sheathed in mirrored glass with a large white trellis

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