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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Explore the origins of true crime through early modern Europe. Amanda Madden's curriculum uses pamphlets, murder ballads, and digital tools to engage students with the history of crime. Learn more: ow.ly/58mn50ZqQvo
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Exploring True Crime in Early Modern Europe in the Classroom
This semester I’m using my expertise on crime and violence in a new way: I’m teaching an upper-level undergraduate course “True Crime in Early Modern Europe.” When we think of the true crime genre, we …
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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Congratulations to John Turner, Professor of Religious Studies and History at George Mason University, whose book Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet, has won the 2026 Evans Biography Award. Read more: ow.ly/ixWn50Zz0uq
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Mountain West Center for Regional Studies Announces 2026 Evans Biography Award Winners
The  Mountain West Center for Regional Studies at USU awarded the Evans Awards to authors whose selected works focused on the importance of documenting individual lives and their impact.
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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Explore Governing Ground, an ongoing digital history project examining the politics of public lands in the American West through narrative history, interactive maps, and network visualizations. Explore the project: governingground.org
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Governing Ground
A history of the sagebrush rebellions---recurring fights over land, power, and federal authority in the American West from the 1930s through 2016.
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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Spiritualism became one of the fastest-growing religious movements in 19th-century America. Caroline Greer explores the Fox sisters and how Spiritualist denominations were documented in the 1926 Census of Religious Bodies. rrchnm.org/blog/talking-to-the-dead…
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Talking to the Dead: Spiritualists and Seances
During my time working on the American Religious Ecologies project I became focused on female ministers and other types of religious leadership that appear in the Census. This interest aligns well …
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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Want to make your research more accessible? Shae Corey shares how academic zines can help translate scholarship for public audiences through thoughtful design and storytelling. Read more: rrchnm.org/blog/how-to-make-an-acad…
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How To Make an Academic Zine for a Public Audience
Zines offer academics a creative and accessible way to share research with broader audiences. This guide introduces the basics of creating an academic zine, from planning your content to designing an …
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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Museum data can reveal more than what's on display. Deepthi Murali explores The Met's South Asia collection using computational methods to uncover new perspectives on collecting history and representation. Read more: rrchnm.org/blog/exploring-south-asi…
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South Asia Collections at The Met: A Preliminary Computational Look
A preliminary computational analysis of 5,000+ MET objects reveals how South Asian art entered the collection — who donated it, when, and what happens to it now.
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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Stephen Robertson joins Kishauna Soljour to discuss Harlem in Disorder, a digital monograph exploring the 1935 Harlem uprising through spatial history. Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/harlem-in-disor…
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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Dr. Jessica Otis and Katherine Kania published "The Monarchs' Bills of Mortality," analyzing 17th-century London death records to reveal connections between epidemic outbreaks, socioeconomic trends, and environmental factors. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.108…
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The Monarchs’ Bills of Mortality: A Geographical Analysis of Death in Seventeenth-Century London
The London bills of mortality are most well known as printed broadsides produced for public consumption in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which informed early modern Londoners of mortali...
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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
CRDH Vol. 8: New research from Fabio Gigone, Natacha Klein Käfer, Natália da Silva Perez, Nadav Borenstein, Miara Fraikin, Sanne Maekelberg, and Anna McGee explores topics from royal iconography to AI-powered print analysis, midwifery education to palace networks. Read here: crdh.rrchnm.org
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Current Research in Digital History
Hosted by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, Current Research in Digital History is an open-access, peer-reviewed, online publication. Its primary aim is to encourage and publish scholarship in digital history that offers discipline-specific arguments and interpretations.
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 27/10/2025
Ahead of #AHA26 in Chicago, check out our Resources & Guides to learn about our annual meeting policies, accessibility, travel, resources for speakers and undergraduates, and much more. 🗃️
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Resources and Guides - AHA
Getting Ready for the Meeting Making Your Case Get advice on presenting your case for departmental funding or paid leave to come to the meeting. Learn More Social Media Logos Spread the word about you...
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 23/10/2025
The AHA offers travel and childcare grants to help graduate students, early career historians, un/underemployed historians, and community college and public high school teachers attend #AHA26. Check out the full list of available grants at the link. 🗃️
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Annual Meeting Funding - AHA
The AHA offers several grants and fellowships to assist graduate students and early career historians with childcare and travel costs for the annual meeting.
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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 16/10/2025
If you're at #WHA2025 I hope you'll join @cblevins.bsky.social, @regan008.bsky.social, Rachel Birch, Sean Fraga and myself on Friday at 8:15 to talk with us about generative AI and History. I have a strong feeling I might be quite curmudgeonly, so come join us!
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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Congratulations to the winners of the Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History, Gergely Baics, Meredith Linn, Leah Meisterlin, and Myles Zhang, for their project Envisioning Seneca Village! Explore the project: envisioningsenecavillage.github.io
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Envisioning Seneca Village
Envisioning Seneca Village combines historical research with digital mapping and visualization to present an interactive 3D digital model of what Seneca Village might have looked like in 1855, about t...
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Declaration Stories @declarationstories.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
How do you tell the story of a copy of the Declaration of Independence that doesn't exist anymore? This week's newsletter focuses on Polly Palmer, with help from the @rrchnm.bsky.social podcast Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant declarationstories.org/stories/miss-polly-or-myra
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Miss Polly or Myra — Declaration Stories
Copies of the Declaration that no longer survive still have stories to tell
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National Council on Public History @ncph.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
📖We’re now accepting nominations for the NCPH #BookAward through November 1! Books published in 2024 or 2025 are eligible for the $1,000 prize. The winner will be honored by NCPH at the joint NCPH-AASLH conference in Providence, RI, next September. ncph.org/about/awards/book-award
Public History Book Award. Deadline Nov. 1, 2025. NCPH logo. Text displayed over image of books.
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Amanda Madden @amandamadden.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Why does having a cover for your book make it feel more official? Thrilled to share mine for Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy out Nov 15 with @cornellupress.bsky.social This book has some things to say about the intersections between violence and statecraft.
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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Happy First Day of School! Make sure you've signed up for our monthly newsletter to stay up to date on all of our projects. airtable.com/appCTQZLKPTy...
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Amanda Madden @amandamadden.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
1) Finally back in the research trenches and working on the next book (and the project Mapping Violence) and the Venetian material I've collected continues to delight. Today's find from the archives of the Council of Ten: An investigation of a 'cartello' of a treasonous poem from Verona.
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 20/08/2025
Undergraduates: submit to #AHA26's Undergraduate Poster Session by October 15. The Poster Session is an opportunity for undergraduates to share their research with peers and established scholars in a visual format.
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Presenting Undergraduate Research at the Annual Meeting - AHA
Learn how to submit a proposal to present your undergraduate thesis or research at the AHA annual meeting.
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Omeka @omeka.org · 20/08/2025
Want to learn more about our Omeka Intensive Courses? Join us for an info session on Wednesday, August 27th at 7:30 PM EDT. Instructor Dani Willcutt will provide a brief overview of the Classic and S courses and address audience questions. Register now:
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Omeka Intensive Course Info Session
Sign up to join us for the Omeka Intensive Course Info Session on Wednesday, August 27th at 7:30 PM EDT. We will circulate the Zoom link the day of the event.
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Omeka @omeka.org · 18/08/2025
It' that time again! Registration is now open for our Fall intensive trainings. Sign up to reserve your spot in our Classic or S course today:
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Omeka - Omeka Training
Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Its five-minute setup makes launching an online archive or exhibition as easy as launching a blog.
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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 15/08/2025
Today I’m working on some experimentation with a local LLM and OCR to see how well I can get an LLM to understand historical documents, identify themes, potential linkages between documents, extract indexes of people, places, or events, and other document metadata.
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Raff Viglianti @raffazizzidh.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Hearing from Jessica Otis at @rrchnm.bsky.social about their monumental effort to reduce technical debt and figure out what to do with several DH projects since 2014. Similar situation was faced by MITH and @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social among others. #dh2025
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Trevor Owens @tjowens.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
We’re hiring! Join AIP’s research team as an Archives Fellow or Intern to help highlight women’s contributions to the physical sciences. Great part time opportunities for grad students. Apply here: - Fellow: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau... - Intern: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...
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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The JCB is seeking a senior leader for its ambitious digital programs. Our Associate Director for Digital Asset Management will guide the continuing development of our innovative platform, Americana, and oversee the digitization of library collections. 1/3
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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
If you're attending #DH2025 make sure to check out @jmotis.bsky.social's panel Revitalizing, Maintaining, & Sunsetting the Digital Humanities on Friday and @deepthimurali.bsky.social & @jasonheppler.org's session Participatory Platforms, Open Scholarship and Advanced OCR on Thursday.
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Program agenda – DH2025
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Zachary Schrag @zacharyschrag.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Coming in October 2025. A new, three-volume history of Greater Philadelphia. Look for my entry on the 1844 nativist riots in volume 3: Greater Philadelphia and the World www.pennpress.org/978151282935...
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Greater Philadelphia – Penn Press
Informed by current scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, Greater Philadelphia: A New History for the Twenty-First Century...
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Brenden W. Rensink 📚🏃‍♂️⛰ @brendenwrensink.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Heads up! The new series I'm editing for @unmpress.bsky.social has been renamed to "The West in Context" (less generic than the original). Flyer attached. Please message me if you want to pitch a manuscript or otherwise talk shop!
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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
"One of many!" How did the East India Company get its start on the Indian sub-continent? Contributing expert @deepthimurali.bsky.social of George Mason University takes us back to the reign of Elizabeth I in this clip from Episode 16: The Tea.
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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The Rebellion is now in progress.
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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Thrilled to say that Worlds Turned Upside Down is nominated for the 2025 People's Choice Podcast Awards in two categories: People's Choice Award and Best History Podcast. We'd be most grateful for your vote! Cast your ballot here: www.podcastawards.com
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Jeanette Patrick @jeanettepatrick.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
One of the podcasts I produce is up for TWO People's Choice Podcast Awards! Worlds Turned Upside Down has been nominated for the People's Choice Award and Best History Podcast. I would really appreciate it if you would vote for Worlds Turned Upside Down! www.podcastawards.com
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Podcast Awards - The People's Choice
The People's Choice Podcast Awards established in 2005 an annual event to honor the best podcasts in the podcasting space. 18th Annual
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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
NOW PLAYING: Episode 15: The Heavens Fall The detainment of a West African-born enslaved Virginian named James Somerset in London leads to a court case decided by England's most powerful judge that challenges the foundations of slavery in the British Empire. www.r2studios.org/show/worlds-...
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Writing Westward Podcast @writingwestward.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
🚨New Episode ft. digital, environmental, & urban historian, Dr. @jasonheppler.org (Senior Developer, @rrchnm.bsky.social @georgemasonu.bsky.social), & his book "Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism" (@oupress.bsky.social, 2024). www.podbean.com/eas/pb-wmhpv...
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076 - Jason Heppler - Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism
A conversation with historian Jason Heppler about their book Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism   (University of Oklahoma Press, Environment in Modern North Ameri...
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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Congratulations DR. Greer!
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 25/06/2025
The #AHR is seeking proposals for a special issue on methodological approaches to archival silences in early history. Visit our website to read the full call for proposals and learn more about the guidelines for submission. Proposals are due September 16. 🗃️
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Special Issue Submissions - AHA
Natural light and processed MSI images of the HMML Palimpsest Project Methods for Archival Silence in Early History The American Historical Review seeks proposals for a special issue illustrating a ra...
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Zachary Schrag @zacharyschrag.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The print edition of the Washington Post may be shrinking, but it's nice that they found room for this review of the new biography of Joseph Smith by my wonderful colleague, John Turner. Also, first peaches of the summer.
Alex Beam, "‘Joseph Smith’ is a clear-eyed biography of the Mormon founder," Washington Post, June 23, 2025. 
Pictured alongside a plate with muffin, blueberries, and peach, all from Westover Farmers Market.
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The ITPS (Institute for Thomas Paine Studies) @theitps.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Big news from the #ITPS! We are thrilled to share a new series with @uvapress.bsky.social! Here are more details about "From Pamphlets to Podcasts" and if you're working on relevant themes (this is an intentionally 'big tent' series), consider sending them our way upress.virginia.edu/news/new-boo...
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New Book Series Brings the Spirit of Paine’s “Common Sense” and the Founding Era into the 21st Century
<p>The University of Virginia Press is pleased to announce “From Pamphlets to Podcasts: An Institute for Thomas Paine Studies Series,” a new series th
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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Congratulations to @jeanettepatrick.bsky.social for winning the Best Producer Award!!
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
June really snuck up on us, didn't it? But that means summer is here, and so is #AHAReads! I hope you'll join our Summer Reading Challenge, and read + discuss history with us throughout the next three months! 🗃️
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AHA Reads - AHA
In these chaotic times, we’re feeling the need to escape. And what better way is there to forget about the present than by diving into a good book about the past? So we invite you to participate in th...
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 28/05/2025
📣 Call for participants 📣 Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice? We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ! Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
Green and red poster with History Workshop Journal printed in the corner, black and white illustrations in the corner, and short text under the title ‘Can you help us?’ requesting participation.
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Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
This was a terrific episode! #skystorians #academicsky @rrchnm.bsky.social
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Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Learning so much abt indigenous peoples & war in late 18th-c North America (esp the #Ohio country, where I am from). Listen to it while I garden or workout at the gym. @jimambuske.bsky.social @neorsd.org In case of interest to other Ohioans <3 #skystorians #academicsky #18c @rrchnm.bsky.social
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Thomas Cauvin @thomascauvin.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Check the programme of the student led seminar, with presentation from 14 students from all over the world www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even... #PublicHistory #Past #Conflict #Heritage @uni.lu @c2dh.uni.lu @ncph.bsky.social
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Public history for contested and conflicting past(s)
International Public History online seminar. For student - by students.
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The ITPS (Institute for Thomas Paine Studies) @theitps.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Our friends @shearites.bsky.social are expanding a wonderful initiative around mentorship in honor of the late, great Jan Lewis, which kicks off this afternoon with a conversation about conferences with @carolyneastman.bsky.social @wmackintosh.bsky.social & @drhonor.bsky.social. Details⬇️
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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Congratulations to our former GRA Hernán Adasme on winning this award!
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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
And that's a wrap on the grants awarded to the Department of History and Art History! We want to thank all our Program Officers at the NEH for their decades of hard work bringing #NEHfunded projects to the public. We couldn't have done any of this without you.
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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
In 1977, Lawrence Levine had an #NEHfunded project on the Folk in American history. The NEH fellowship led to Levine's pathbreaking book, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
In 1978 and 1979, Carol Mattusch won a fellowship for an #NEHfunded research project on Greek bronze sculptures. Her fellowship led to the publication of Classical Bronzes: The Art and Craft of Greek and Roman Statuary
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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The #NEHfunded part of the George Mason's Legacy lecture series focused on Constitutional guarantees of rights.
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