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Tracy Neumann

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Historian. Editor. Dog person. Lurking, mostly.

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Historic New England @historicnewengland.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
As we mark the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, HNE is launching a new Accessibility series in our Property Care White Papers. The first two resources focus on door widths and interior thresholds to help improve access in historic house museums. #ADA36 #ThanksToTheADA
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Accessibility and Preservation: A New White Papers Series | Historic New England
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Historic New England @historicnewengland.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Preserving the past means preparing for the future. In honor of Preservation Month, Ben Haavik, VP of Property Care and Climate Action, shares how HNE is advancing accessibility, tackling climate resilience, and caring for 167 historic structures across four centuries of history.→
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“We’re Not Just Preserving Buildings, We’re Preparing Them for the Future”: Ben Haavik on Preservation, Climate Resilience, and Accessibility | Historic New England
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Historic New England @historicnewengland.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Stopping Stones are micro-monuments marking sites where enslaved people lived and labored. For Black History Month, Mikayla Harden reflects on the power of these quiet memorials, which invite contemplation rather than awe. • What is a Stopping Stone? → www.historicnewengland.org/what-is-a-st...
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What is a Stopping Stone? | Historic New England
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Historic New England @historicnewengland.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 at Historic New England! Summer 2026 applications open Mon, Feb 23 at 10 a.m. ET and close Sun, Mar 1 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Applications are only accepted during this window. Help spread the word: www.historicnewengland.org/get-involved...
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Interns and Volunteers | Historic New England
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Historic New England @historicnewengland.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬: 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭! HNE is pleased to offer students a special discount to attend the Summit in New Haven, CT. Two days of inspiration, ideas, solutions, & connections—𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 $𝟓𝟎. Take the next step in your career journey! donate2.app/hne/summit-r...
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Historic New England @historicnewengland.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
We’re accepting applications for Spring 2026 internships. The application portal opens at 10 a.m. EST on Mon., September 22, & closes at 11:59 p.m. EST on Sun., October 5 —𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙗𝙚 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙙𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙙. Help us spread the word! → www.historicnewengland.org/get-involved...
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Interns and Volunteers | Historic New England
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Historic New England @historicnewengland.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 Historic New England offers exciting opportunities for students, recent graduates, and history enthusiasts to gain real-world experience while helping to preserve our region’s past.
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Joseph Ben Prestel @jbprestel.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
"The defense of gender is at once the defense of open inquiry and the ideal of the university."
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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." --Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless
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Historic New England @historicnewengland.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
⏰ Deadline Approaching: This Thursday! ⏰ Are you working to preserve history in your New England community? Don’t miss your chance to apply for Historic New England’s Community Preservation Grants—applications close Thursday! Apply today → www.historicnewengland.org/continuing-s...
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Continuing Support for Community Preservation Across New England | Historic New England
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Alt-NIHscience4ALL @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info · 21/07/2025
Insight on life when one’s grant is terminated. And reinstated.
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Thomas Cauvin @thomascauvin.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Our new survey of public history students is available: What do students do after their Master? Do they have jobs? In what field do they work? What did they find useful in their training? publichistoryonline.org/survey-of-pu... #PublicHistory #Career #University @ncph.bsky.social
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Historic New England @historicnewengland.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
What can the lives of 19th-century women teach us today? Historian @edewolfe.bsky.social has made it her mission to find out. DeWolfe brings a storyteller’s voice and a scholar’s lens to the hidden histories of women. Investigate for yourself! → www.historicnewengland.org/the-real-agn...
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The Real Agnes Parker: Castle Tucker's Gilded Age "Girl Spy" | Historic New England
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
At the end of a week with crappy news, here’s a chance to just do some pure good. The Hartford mayor and I are starting a summer basketball league for kids in the city. We need to raise about $20K more to fund it. $ link here. More info in this 🧵 secure.actblue.com/donate/csm-a...
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Please make a charitable donation to Active City
Contribute to bring a summer basketball league to Hartford
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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
"A society can't allow EVERYBODY to have free speech!" is a helluva take.
Thomas Chatterton Williams on X: "I don’t care if you’re razing Kenosha, storming the Capitol, or doing whatever this is in LA, no democracy can function when every group and identity block decides it has the right and moral authority to take its specific political disagreements into the streets." 

Retweeted by Jake Tapper.
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National Council on Public History @ncph.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
We are accepting applications for the NCPH Membership Coordinator through Friday, June 13. Learn more about this full-time position (with benefits) and submit your application or share it with someone who would be great for the role at ncph.org/job/ncph-mem...! #PublicHistory #PublicHistoryJobs
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Twitter: this is how men with huge balls fight. This is what masculinity looks like Bluesky: this is the first messy breakup of pride month
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Esther Ciammachilli @estherc.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
UPDATE: The National Park Service is *officially closing* Dupont Circle Park through World Pride weekend. Fencing is being put up around the park. NPS says the request came from U.S. Park Police as "necessary for the maintenance of public health and safety, and protection" of the park
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Historic New England @historicnewengland.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The 2025 Pride Garden Party at Sarah Orne Jewett House is next week. We talk to our event partner, New Hampshire Outright, about how knowing history can empower LGBTQ+ youth now and in the future. • Celebrate LGBTQ+ History → www.historicnewengland.org/celebrating-...
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Celebrating LGBTQ+ Histories with NH Outright | Historic New England
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The Coalition to Protect America's National Parks @protectnps.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Congress approved it. The administration is delaying it. The Coalition is calling on Congress to release FY25 Historic Preservation Fund dollars now, before we lose staff, projects, and irreplaceable sites. Our letter: protectnps.org/2025/05/30/c...
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Tracy Neumann @tracyneumann.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
One way to show how much you value history—and evidence-based stories about the past—is to visit the historic sites in your community. I work for @historicnewengland.bsky.social, and we have 38 of them, almost all of which are open for free tours next Saturday. Stop by and check us out!
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Historic New England @historicnewengland.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Historic New England is hiring—and we want YOU on our team! Whether you're exploring a new career path, looking for an inspiring internship, or ready to volunteer, there’s a place for you here. Join us—and be part of something historic! → historicnewengland.bamboohr.com/careers
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Current Openings
Take a look at the current openings at Historic New England
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Historic New England @historicnewengland.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
On this May Day, we remember when 3,000 Haverhill shoe workers struck in 1895—and sparked a movement that led the Massachusetts city to elect the first socialist mayor in the United States. • More from HNE Research Fellow, Eleanor Martinez-Proctor → www.historicnewengland.org/the-peoples-...
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The People’s City: Haverhill’s Socialist Experiment | Historic New England
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 01/05/2025
The Memorial Wall honoring USAID employees who lost their lives in service was taken down today. We will not forget. 😢🇺🇲 wtop.com/government/2...
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Memorial wall to fallen USAID staffers is removed from the agency’s former building - WTOP News
WASHINGTON (AP) — Contractors hired by the Trump administration have removed a memorial wall to fallen staffers from the now-closed headquarters of the U.S. Agency for International Development…
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Numenality also as well @ethical-chaos.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
As one of Senator Slotkin's constituents: seriously, what fresh hell is this? Michigan is better than this, and better than the "woke is weak" line Senator Slotkin's been towing of late.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/
Tim Naftali's tweet on the termination of the HAC members without cause.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Barnard really is Columbia’s partner
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Support our colleagues at Wellesley, where the NTT faculty are on day 28 of striking for better working conditions.
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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Pitches for this are due Sunday. If you know someone who might want to contribute, please share this with them!
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Call For Pitches: The Losses
“But you could go work for the government! Or museums—maybe a non-profit?” Grad students and adjuncts leaving academic history in the United States have often gotten the above advice from well-meaning...
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This is how you do it.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NYU Faculty Take Classes Off Campus to Protest Lack of Protections for International
Students
NEW YORK, April 17, 2025 - More than fifty NYU faculty members have taken their classes off campus starting today, and continuing for the next week, to protest the University's lack of commitment to protect international students in the face of the Trump administration's attacks. Some faculty have moved their classes to in-person locations that have been declared sanctuary spaces, where international students are assured that building administrators will do everything in their power to refuse to cooperate with ICE agents. Other faculty have moved their classes online so that students can attend from a safe location of their choosing.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 22/04/2025
“The Govt has not — & cannot — identify any rational connection between antisemitism & the medical, scientific, technological, & other research it has frozen that aims to save American lives, foster American success, preserve security, & maintain our position as a global leader in innovation.”
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gav @gavinmit.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
the level of cracked where you can't conceive of trans women cooking
tweet by someone called June Slater:
These trans women. Do they ever do things like women actually do, run a home, cook, put the washer on, get the kids to school, visit relatives in care homes, budget the bills, clean the house, chauffeur  kids about? You know the reality of being a woman!
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The Trump administration says it will begin cutting off K-12 school funding to Maine. The state has rejected a list of demands over transgender athletes, and in response the White House is moving to take hundreds of millions of dollars from Maine's kids. www.mainepublic.org/politics/202...
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Trump administration moves to cut off K-12 funding to Maine amid 'impasse' over transgender athletes
Federal officials said they were launching administrative proceedings to terminate grants to Maine after state officials refused to comply with the Trump administration's demand that Maine ban transge...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
"“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” said Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, in a statement to the university" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
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Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands
Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful.
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Tracy Neumann @tracyneumann.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Just got THE BEST hostess gift from @smithsarah.bsky.social: Her new book, Trading on Art, about how artists responded to and shaped the discourse around North American free trade/how art was used in service of creating a North American identity. Out May 1 from @ubcpress.bsky.social!
Person smiling while holding a book titled "Trading on Art" indoors, with a dining area in the background.

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Trading on Art Cultural Industry and Free Trade in North America Sarah E. Smith
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth." No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
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Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University
On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 10/04/2025
Freddie Gray died after his arrest by Baltimore police a decade ago. His twin now has words to share.
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Freddie Gray died after his arrest by Baltimore police a decade ago. His twin now has words to share.
Ten years ago, Freddie Gray died at the hands of Baltimore Police. Now, his twin sister, Fredericka Gray, talks about his death.
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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The Maine State Library laid off 13 staff members Wednesday — nearly one-third of its staff — and announced that it would close for two weeks to restructure its operations after the Trump administration indefinitely suspended certain federal funds. www.pressherald.com/2025/04/09/s...
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Maine State Library lays off 13 workers, will restructure after losing federal funds
The library last received funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services on March 24 and has not gotten any updates on when — or whether — payments may resume.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
~3/4 through this. It's very good. Focus is on pivotal Milliken v. Bradley, famous metro-wide school desegregation case/plan. Knew lots of the history, but not in this detail. Appreciate how author draws on her Detroit roots. She grew up in neighborhood ~1 mile from mine, about same time, 60s/70s.
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The Containment
"Splendid . . . Adams’s book explores class as well as race, with a richness and sophistication that recall J. Anthony Lukas’s 1985 masterpiece, Common G...
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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Get me out of here.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
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Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
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Nate Blouin @nateforutah.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Elementary school principals going where university presidents fear to tread...
New York Times headline reading "New York says it does not intend to comply with D.E.I. order on schools"
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National Humanities Alliance @humanitiesall.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Today (4/3/25) we learned that DOGE has begun terminating previously awarded NEH grants. We understand this includes operating grants to the state and jurisdictional humanities councils, scholarly societies, community orgs, & individuals. Learn more & take action: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...
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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
AAUP has just published a memo laying out the many legal reasons why universities should not hand over the names & nationalities of their students or faculty, as the Trump admin has asked. Please share freely with your friendly university admin! @aaup.bsky.social www.aaup.org/news/institu...
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Institutions Should Not Provide Student and Faculty Info To Enable Deportations
In response to news reports that the Office for Civil Rights in the US Department of Education has requested the names and nationalities of students and faculty who may have been involved in alleged T...
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dr. meg smith @megsmith.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Today in NEH watch: the Public Scholars program has a new "What's New in 2025" section that strongly encourages narratives of American exceptionalism in light of the 250th anniversary. #DigitalHumanities #Humanities #NEh
A screenshot from the program page for the NEH's Public Scholars grant:

What’s New for 2025

In honor of the upcoming 250th anniversary of America’s Founding, the 2025-26 Public Scholars competition especially encourages projects that promote a deeper understanding of our nation’s extraordinary heritage, including our record of advancing liberty, prosperity, and human flourishing.

Competitive applications will focus on topics in American history, culture, and government in any period from the Colonial Era to the present that increase public knowledge of the 250th anniversary of American Independence and American exceptionalism. Projects might explore the origins of the world’s oldest constitutional democracy, or how its founding ideals have been met over time, or examine significant individuals, events, books or documents, artworks, objects, music, places, traditions, or ideas that have shaped America, its role in the world, or the experiences of its people.
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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Congress has the power to restore funding to the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Join me in calling your reps!
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
MORE: Libraries in several states have received letters which claim to cancel federal IMLS grants. Congress MUST act to restore this funding. Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/04... Use your voice - call Congress to protect & restore library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
"Withdrawing library grants is a callous move at any time, but downright cruel at a time when it's getting harder for many Americans to make ends meet - most of all, in small and rural communities. The White House may have no qualms about slashing opportunity for jobseekers, students, veterans and families, but Congress has the power to restore support for services their constituencies rely on." - ALA President Cindy Hohl. American Library Association, Show up for our libraries
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