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William G. Thomas III

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Historian of the early U.S. | Dean of the College of Letters and Science and Professor of History, Montana State University

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William G. Thomas III @wgthomas3.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Applications are open for "Under the Big Sky: The Montana Writers Retreat," June 12-15, 2026 sponsored by the College of Letters and Science, Montana State University. At the B Bar Ranch in Emigrant. For history and nonfiction writers. Apply here: www.montana.edu/lettersandsc...
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
And we're extra lucky that there will be another workshop for writers tomorrow at 1:30pm: the Nonfiction Trade Book Proposal Workshop, chaired by @lollardfish.bsky.social. #AHA26 🗃️
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139th Annual Meeting (January 8-11, 2026): Nonfiction Trade Book Proposal Workshop
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
“This article urges a fresh view on [AI large language model] hallucinations by arguing that, rather than being errors in any conventional sense, they are evidence of a probabilistic system incapable of dealing with questions of knowledge.”
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Rethinking Error: “Hallucinations” and Epistemological Indifference | Critical AI | Duke University Press
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William G. Thomas III @wgthomas3.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
"Under the Big Sky: The Montana Writers Retreat" June 12-15, 2026 at B Bar Ranch Historians and nonfiction writers! Join us for a retreat will offer you space to think deeply, gain insight from colleagues and facilitators, and move your writing project forward. www.montana.edu/lettersandsc...
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Writers Retreat - College of Letters & Science | Montana State University
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
My colleagues have been working on this since June, so it’s a big day to see it finally finished and filed. And just thrilled that 17 other scholarly orgs joined.
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William G. Thomas III @wgthomas3.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
"Under the Big Sky: The Montana Writers Retreat" June 12-15, 2026 at B Bar Ranch Sponsored by the College of Letters and Science, Montana State University. Open to all nonfiction and history writers. Join us and apply: www.montana.edu/lettersandsc...
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 16/09/2025
The American Historical Association promotes the critical role of historical thinking in public life, defends academic freedom, develops professional standards, and supports scholarship and teaching. Learn about our recent advocacy actions on our website. 🗃️
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AHA Advocacy | American Historical Association
The American Historical Association is unique among history organizations with the breadth and depth of our advocacy efforts.
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William G. Thomas III @wgthomas3.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
We are pleased to announce a search for The Wallace Stegner Chair of Western American Studies in the Department of History at Montana State University-Bozeman. This is an exciting moment at MSU. Join us. jobs.montana.edu/postings/48151
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Associate or Full Professor of History and The Wallace Stegner Chair of Western American Studies
The Department of History and Philosophy at Montana State University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the level of Associate or Full Professor with expertise in the history of the N...
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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
"Black Patriots and Black Loyalists of the American Revolution exhibit" #America250 #VA250 va250.org/event-detail...
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 22/08/2025
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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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
For anyone teaching the slave trade and slavery this fall: check out my documentary film, *Ghosts of Amistad*, about the memory of the 1839 uprising in contemporary Sierra Leone, w/ French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish subtitles. Study guides for teachers and students too. www.ghostsofamistad.com
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Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels
[siteorigin_widget class=WP_Widget_Media_Video][/siteorigin_widget] Ghosts of Amistad chronicles a trip to Sierra Leone to visit the home villages of the people who seized the slave schooner Amistad...
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William G. Thomas III @wgthomas3.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Our team has been working on a major Open Education Resource (OER) about U.S. legal history for teaching and learning. If you are teaching U.S. legal history, we hope that EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW will help you and your students. Check out our initial launch site at: teachinglegalhistory.unl.edu
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 19/08/2025
Congratulations to AHA members Merle Eisenberg, James Illingworth, James P. McClure, Christopher F. Minty, Michael L. Satlow, and Jennifer Stertzer, as well as all the other historians who were awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for humanities projects in 2025. 🗃️
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NEH Announces $34.79 Million for 97 Humanities Projects
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William G. Thomas III @wgthomas3.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
When your team brings fresh huckleberries to the office, there’s only one thing to do! Montana State, Bobcats, Montana!
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Erasing history by defunding #archives www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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60-year-old Black history archive faces uncertain future after federal cuts
The Amistad Research Center, one of largest repositories of Black history, cut half its staff after the Trump administration ended four federal grants.
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William G. Thomas III @wgthomas3.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
We have a terrific opening. Please repost! Join our team at the College of Letters and Science at Montana State University in Bozeman. careers.insidehighered.com/job/3374448/...
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Assistant Dean for Student Success and Outreach - Bozeman, Montana job with Montana State University | 3374448
The College of Letters & Science at Montana State University is seeking a dedicated and collaborative leader to serve as the Assistant Dean for Stu...
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 11/07/2025
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. 🗃️
historians.org
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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Science Magazine @science.org · 10/07/2025
The Senate appropriations committee has voiced its intent to ignore the request by President Donald Trump to slash the budgets of the National Science Foundation and NASA science programs. scim.ag/4nW7XWi
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Senate spending panel would rescue NSF and NASA science funding
Its support for a flat budget is a sign of congressional resistance to drastic cuts Trump has proposed
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William G. Thomas III @wgthomas3.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Join Montana State University's College of Letters and Science! We are seeking a new assistant dean to advance and support the college's mission in undergraduate student success, recruitment, and retention. The full position description and posting are linked here: jobs.montana.edu/postings/47389
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Assistant Dean for Student Success and Outreach
The College of Letters & Science is searching for a highly motivated and experienced leader to spearhead recruitment and retention efforts for the College via increased visibility, increased enrollmen...
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William G. Thomas III @wgthomas3.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Happy birthday to our special one today! 24!!
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William G. Thomas III @wgthomas3.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Six years since my Juneteenth 2019 tour through southern Maryland with Letitia Clark and Guilford Queen, descendants of the families who sued for freedom from slavery in the 1790s.
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 03/06/2025
The AHA is pleased to announce this year's #AHAPerspectives summer columnists! Congratulations to Mary F. Casey (Univ. of California, Riverside), Alisa Kuzmina (Univ. of Minnesota), and Cecilia Slane (Univ. of Oklahoma), who will each write two columns. Learn about them and their upcoming work: 🗃️
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Meet the 2025 Perspectives Daily Summer Columnists – AHA
Introducing the three graduate students who will write about teaching history writing as a former playwright, researching international marriages in a time of immigration uncertainty, and engaging wit...
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 03/06/2025
Consultants, software developers, fundraisers, soldiers, human rights commissioners—read how history graduates say their degrees helped them in a variety of careers. www.historians.org/teaching-lea...
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In Their Own Words: Testimonials from History Majors | American Historical Association
The history major provides both a stepping stone towards dynamic careers in many industries and preparation for ongoing contribution to civic life.
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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
The American Society for Legal History runs a program to help scholars navigate the dissertation-to-book process. This year's group will be led by the brilliant Prof. Chris Schmidt of Chicago-Kent Law. A fantastic opportunity! To apply: aslh.net/award/wallac...
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Wallace Johnson First Book Program | American Society for Legal History
The biennial Wallace Johnson Program for First Book Authors provides advice and support to scholars working toward the publication of first books in legal history, broadly defined. In conversation wit...
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
A tiny but wild snapshot of the current chaos
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Montana Free Press @montanafreepress.org · 28/05/2025
The new hire is possible through support from Report for America and CatchLight.
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Montana Free Press bringing on photographer
The new hire is possible through support from Report for America and CatchLight, a San Francisco-based visual media organization that specializes in accessible image-based reporting.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
"Academic freedom-the ability to pursue the truth wherever it might lead, and to make publicly available what one believes is true ...[is] not the arcane privilege of an... intellectual guild, but a prerogative essential to the functioning of our Republic and the education of its citizenry." 💯
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 22/05/2025
The AHA encourages members to contact their senators today through the Coalition for International Education & @humanitiesall.bsky.social's action alert, & urge them to sign on to Sen. Schatz's letter supporting robust funding for international education & foreign language infrastructure in FY26. 🗃️
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Take Action for International Education!
I just took action to increase funding for Title VI and Fulbright-Hays! Join me and take action here.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/05/2025
NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research. NSF Astronomy was cut by 53% Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79% Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO. #GiftLink ⚛️🔭 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 19/05/2025
From #AHAPerspectives in 2024: As a new department chair presiding over end of year celebrations, @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social “felt compelled to draw together the reasons we were in that room and in that community.” 🗃️
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Guardians of the Tapestry of Time – AHA
As the academic year ends, one history department chair reflects on the work of history.
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Flatwater Free Press @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Decades after the release of his first feature film, Alexander Payne is preparing for a career first: a sequel. The Oscar-winning filmmaker from Omaha is in the early stages of a follow-up to his acclaimed 1999 comedy “Election.” It promises to be “a very, very Omaha movie.” 🔗 buff.ly/BL7UL3S
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Jack Schneider @jackschneider.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Last summer, a team from @historians.org issued a report on the teaching of history in U.S. K-12 schools. We asked them to write an essay-length version of that report for History of Education Quarterly. And then we invited four leading scholars to comment. In this thread, I'll post links to all.
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William G. Thomas III @wgthomas3.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Still glowing from glorious weekend celebrating Guy Thomas and law school graduation at University of Montana Law. Inspiring to see so many young lawyers dedicated to rule of law, candor before the court, and zealous advocates for justice…
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Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
When it comes to employment prospects, majors in nutrition, art history and philosophy all outperform some STEM-based counterparts, according to a recent analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...
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College majors with the best and worst job prospects — art history beats finance
In general, what college students choose to major in has significant implications for job prospects and future earnings potential.
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William G. Thomas III @wgthomas3.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
So very proud of our GuyThomas, class of 2025 University of Montana School of Law, graduation day in Missoula!
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 16/05/2025
AHA members @joguldi.bsky.social, Peter Roady, @laraputnam.bsky.social, @kalanicraig.bsky.social, Arlene Díaz, & Katherine McDonough were featured in an article in PNAS, one of the most-cited & comprehensive multidisciplinary scientific journals, on how historians use data science to mine the past.
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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William G. Thomas III @wgthomas3.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Enjoyed the Lukas Prizes awards last week at Columbia. A wonderful celebration of nonfiction writing and history. Congratulations Ned Blackhawk! And all the honorees, incl. Gary Bass, Seth Rockman, Kathleen Duval, and Edda L. Fields-Black.
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Martha S. Jones @marthasjones.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
If you missed C-SPAN’s BookTV broadcasts, you can catch the recording with me with Danielle Allen talking THE TROUBLE OF COLOR here. People ask how my family feels about the book!? My wonderful cousins get their questions in during the Q&A. www.c-span.org/program/book... @CSPAN
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[The Trouble of Color - An American Family Member]
Johns Hopkins University professor Martha Jones examined the complexities of skin color and race in America, retracing her own family's experience over five generations. Harvard Book Store in Cambridg...
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NPR @npr.org · 12/05/2025
Todd Blanche, a former personal lawyer for President Trump, is now acting Librarian of Congress. According to his public profile, Blanche has no experience working in libraries or archives.
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The President has named a new Acting Librarian of Congress. It's his former defense lawyer.
Todd Blanche, a former personal lawyer for President Trump, is now acting Librarian of Congress. According to his public profile, Blanche has no experience working in libraries or archives.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This piece is not only about judgment and leadership but a really incisive explainer on what’s happening to essential agencies that undergird American research and scholarship in the public interest.
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 12/05/2025
Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
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About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...
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NPR @npr.org · 12/05/2025
The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.
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Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition
The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The law professors who are arguing against birthright citizenship in the US are reinventing a common law decision from 1677 about allegiance and aliens that was pivotal for creating a common law of slavery in England’s empire. — a logic recreated in Dred Scot. — rejected by 14th amendment.
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Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its New World Empire | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core
Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its New World Empire - Volume 39 Issue 4
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William G. Thomas III @wgthomas3.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Celebrating graduation and commencement at Montana State University today! Beautiful day in Bozeman Mt. And at MSU.
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William G. Thomas III @wgthomas3.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Looking forward to celebrating Ned Blackhawk and Kathleen Duval and other awardees tonight at the Lukas Prizes awards at Columbia Journalism School. journalism.columbia.edu/lukas
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The J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards | Columbia Journalism School
Established in 1998, the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards recognize excellence in nonfiction that exemplifies the literary grace and commitment to serious research and social concern that charact...
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William G. Thomas III @wgthomas3.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
A fantastic webinar underway with two great scholars -- Prof. Eric Berger (Univ. Nebraska Law) and Prof. Katrina Jagodinsky (Univ. Nebraska, History) on Academic Freedom. Illuminating, clarifying, inspiring. We'll post it in full soon. Join our webinar series! uslawandrace.unl.edu/programs/web...
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Webinar Series | U.S. Law and Race Initiative | Nebraska
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William G. Thomas III @wgthomas3.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Amazing and beautiful retirement party for our phenomenal president Waded Cruzado last night. She’s headed to lead APLU but will always have blue and gold in her veins! So thankful for her leadership.
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 01/05/2025
@acls1919.bsky.social, the AHA, & @modernlanguage.bsky.social filed a lawsuit in federal district court today, seeking to reverse the recent actions of the NEH to devastate the agency, including the elimination of grant programs, staff, and entire divisions and programs. 🗃️
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American Council of Learned Societies, American Historical Association, and Modern Language Association File Lawsuit Alleging Illegal Dismantling of National Endowment for the Humanities - AHA
Lawsuit aims to reinstate NEH grant programs, divisions, and staff. For Immediate Release / May 1, 2025 (New York, NY) — The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the American Historical Assoc...
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 02/05/2025
The AHA recognizes that our colleagues in the federal government are facing unprecedented workforce reductions & has compiled resources in support, & are offering one year of free membership in the AHA to former employees of the federal govt. who have been terminated or resigned since January 20.
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Resources for Federal Historians - AHA
The American Historical Association supports historians employed by the federal government. We appreciate the important work they do every day to preserve, chronicle, and interpret American history. T...
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 24/04/2025
AHA executive director @jgrossman.bsky.social has been named the recipient of the Society of American Historians’ 2025 Tony Horwitz Prize, which “honors distinguished work in American history of wide appeal and enduring public significance.” 🗃️
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2025 James R. Grossman | Society of American Historians
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