Amanda Laury Kleintop

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Reconstruction Era National Historic Network Announces the Inclusion of Seven New Sites - Reconstruction Era National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)

The National Park Service announces the addition of seven new sites to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network. This national network connects sites across the country that provide education, interpretation, and research related to the period of Reconstruction. www.nps.gov/reer/learn/n...

Counting the Cost of Freedom | Amanda Laury Kleintop | University of North Carolina Press During the Civil War, the US government abolished slavery without reimbursing enslavers, diminishing the white South's wealth by nearly 50 percent. After the...

Counting the Cost of Freedom by @alkleintop.bsky.social
Post–Civil War white Southerners demanded $ for enslaved people who were freed. Deeply revealing. uncpress.org/book/9781469...

May 1: International Workers Day International Workers’ Day began as a commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket massacre in Chicago.

#tdih May 1: Int'l Workers' Day

Commemorated around world, but not in US, despite origins here (Haymarket).

Teach labor history outside textbook. See ⬇️

Join #MayDay protests www.nea.org/maydaytoolkit

Art, available as a poster, by @rlmartstudio.bsky.social
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/in...

If you want to know how serious our decline in the UK, when North Carolina did what the Labour Government and EHRC have done, the then UK Government told LGBT+ people to beware travelling there.

(Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...

Whitney Plantation grant pulled, exhibit on African American history in limbo A federal agency revoked funds for a long-planned Whitney Plantation exhibit on Black resistance, citing a new executive order under President Trump.

Whitney Plantation grant pulled, exhibit on African American history in limbo www.wwltv.com/article/news...

Haitians call for reparations from France on 200th anniversary of independence ‘ransom’ France should return harsh damages imposed on Caribbean country in 1825 after Haitian Revolution, say campaigners

YES:

"Haitians call for reparations from France on 200th anniversary of independence ‘ransom’: France should return harsh damages imposed on Caribbean country in 1825 after Haitian Revolution, say campaigners"

Hoping these leaders—who helped build the entire field in Digital Humanities, for example —will find places in private foundations, in Deans and provost offices, and more. They are not only leaders, they’re fine people.

Trump Targets a Slavery Removal from the National Museum of African-American History and Culture BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The museum's slavery facts and substantiating artifacts of the 250 years of the enslavement of Africans in America, curated by historians, are the bull’s-eye for the Trump adm...

Trump is reportedly targeting the slavery section of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture for possible removal. “Black people are not going to stand for this,” says Nikole Hannah Jones, the author of the 1619 Project.

"Previously, the article started with a description of enslaved peoples’ efforts to free themselves and the organization of the Underground Railroad....

"The article now starts with two paragraphs that emphasize the 'American ideals of liberty and freedom' and do not specifically mention slavery."🗃️

Most Higher Ed Workers Still Paid Less Than Before Pandemic Although raises for most higher education employees last academic year beat inflation, most are still effectively earning less than they were in 2019–20, according to new salary survey data released M...

"Adjusting for inflation, tenure-track faculty are now paid 10.2 % less than before Covid... While 'median pay increases for most higher education employees in 2024–25 remained strong, they have dropped...” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t... #edsky #highered

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 ...

“The Japanese American National Museum says Trump admin may withhold as much as $2 million approved by the Biden admin.”

“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a JANM leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’”

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Join the 2025-2026 SHA Junior Scholars Workshop cohort!

We meet once a month on Zoom. Junior scholars (pre-first book) have the opportunity to present work in progress, with comments by two senior scholars. Applications will be accepted until April 15.

Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1PGJ...

Civil War historian here so now the American Civil War is a DEI woke subject? The Trump regime is in a full blown fascist attack on all US history.

Without IMLS, there would be no Omeka and there would be no Zotero. Write to your representatives to defend IMLS today.

www.6floors.org/bracket/2025...

Navajo Code Talkers get "DEI" label as military info disappears under Trump order Also vanishing: The Civil War regiment from "Glory," women pilots from WWII and a Medal of Honor winner.

Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order

Graphic with list of problems in state standards on Reconstruction. Photos in circles and text.

In researching our report "Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction,” we found that many issues Du Bois exposed and challenged in his scholarship are still prevalent in state standards and textbooks.

Read: teachreconstructionreport.org

Letter on Modifications to the National Stonewall Monument Web Pages Letter on the National Park Service Modifications to the Stonewall National Monument Web Pages Signatures closed at 5 P.M. EST on February 19, 2025. If you are a journalist writing about this issue o...

Standing with my colleagues who signed this letter protesting the changes made to the Stonewall NPS website.

docs.google.com/document/u/0...

At the request of the Trump Admin, the Ntl Park Service removed references to trans people in this essay w/o consulting the writer, historian @wendylrouse.bsky.social.

Read it here as Prof Rouse intended (and as the NPS published/maintained it until now). 🗃️

drive.google.com/file/d/1p-rQ...

The Real Stonewall Monument The correct and original content for the Stonewall National Monument website that the National Park Service doesn't want you to see.

Ohhhh??? What's this...????
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realstonewall.com/
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A man was lynched yesterday 1 photograph mounted on heavy board : gelatin silver print ; sheet 34.2 x 28.5 cm. | Photograph shows a flag flown from an upper story window of the NAACP headquarters on 69 Fifth Avenue, New York Cit...

I'm putting together a lecture on the US between the world wars for tomorrow. Check out what photo seems to have taken off line from the LOC (it shows up in the preview, but not on the site itself) www.loc.gov/item/2015647...

There was a purge yesterday at the National Parks Service and we need to be screaming about it. Historians, these are our public history colleagues!

In Slavery’s Wake <p>Learn how Black people resisted enslavement, claimed their humanity, and created freedom around the world. Learn how slavery and colonialism shape society today.</p>

Me for the past few weeks: Will the Blacksonian have a Searchable Museum feature for their new In Slavery’s Wake installation so I can use it in my Af/Am History and Memory seminar?🙏
NMAACH: Check out the Searchable Museum www.searchablemuseum.com/in-slaverys-...
Me: 💃🏾🙌