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Preserving the Truth: Why Historic Preservation Must Lead in the Fight for American Memory - Cultural Heritage Partners As preservationists, we have both the tools and the responsibility to ensure that the truth survives. Let’s give ourselves—and each other—permission to lead.

Preservationists: Now is the time to lead and to fight back. Check out Marion Werkheiser's latest post urging our field to recognize the moment we’re in and rise up to meet it: www.culturalheritagepartners.com/preserving-t...

How Trump Has Brought the Art Market to the Brink of 'Paralysis' | Artnet News Trump’s second-term tariffs are forcing the art industry to rethink sales strategies, cross-border deals, and fair participation worldwide.

The president’s economic strategies, often announced abruptly and enforced with little warning, are creating ripple effects across industries and the art market is no exception.
#art #ArtMarketTrends

A Pueblo tribe recruited scientists to reclaim its ancient American history DNA supports modern Picuris Pueblo accounts of ancestry going back more than 1,000 years to Chaco Canyon society.

Frustrated that their objections to oil and gas drilling in Chaco Canyon were being ignored, Picuris officials asked University of Copenhagen evolutionary geneticist Eske Willerslev to fill in gaps in their tribal history using genetic data.
#ChacoCanyon #indigenousrights #NativeAmerican

A former Trump official backs World Heritage status for the vast Okefenokee Swamp President Donald Trump's former agriculture secretary wants the administration to support adding the Okefenokee Swamp's vast wildlife refuge to a United Nations list of World Heritage site

So far, only 26 places in the United States have been designated as UNESCO World Heritage sites. The U.S. Interior Department put the refuge up for consideration in December.
#UNESCOWorldHeritage #CulturalHeritage #HistoricLandmarks #AmericanHistory

Louisiana historic preservation group registering cemeteries across the state Since launched six months ago, 135 historic cemeteries have been registered in the Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation's Louisiana Register of Historic Cemeteries

💐135 historic cemeteries have been registered and a visual glossary has been launched with hundreds of photos from around the state.
#HistoricCemeteries #CemeteryHistory #Louisianna #culturalheritage

“No divisive political decision will ever shake my commitment to Holocaust remembrance and education or to combatting hate and antisemitism. I will continue to speak out, to educate, and to fight hate in all its forms—because silence is never an option” - Doug Emhoff
#HolocaustRemembrance #museums

Cartels and terrorists love American art — and the money it hides Art has often been treated as nothing more than an asset by the wealthy, but it need not be one that criminals can use to spread death and misery.

❗The U.S. is by far the world’s largest art market, but it is also one of a dwindling number of jurisdictions where art sales are not subject to any anti-money laundering regulations at all.
#ArtMarket #ArtLaw #culturalheritage

Mellon Foundation Announces $15 Million for Humanities Councils The emergency funding came after the National Endowment for the Humanities canceled most existing grants, part of a pivot toward President Trump’s priorities.

😍The Mellon Foundation on Tuesday announced $15 million in emergency funding for state humanities councils across the country, throwing what advocates say is a crucial lifeline after the cancellation of federal support had left some in danger of collapse.

#humanities #culturalheritage

Trump is bypassing community input to fast-track energy projects that risk pollution On his first day as president, Trump declared an energy "emergency" that shrunk the time for public scrutiny of potentially risky projects.

➡️Doing so effectively created a new class of emergency permit to fast track energy projects across the country. But environmental advocates worry this will harm the ability of the public to weigh in on projects that will contribute to climate change and harm sensitive ecosystems.
#permitting

‘It’s much more extreme’: US institutions and artists enter a new culture war The Trump administration’s efforts to slash funding and influence programming have pushed cultural workers to organise

🎯The impact has been swift and shocking to many in the cultural field, raising questions about what the arts will look like under Trump and spurring calls for a co-ordinated resistance.
#ArtCommunity #ArtsAdvocacy #culturalheritage

Mass graves of Black Union soldiers slaughtered by Confederate guerrillas possibly identified in Kentucky Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas in the Civil War.

❤️"I'm so impressed with the use of modern technology to give dignity to these long-ignored and forgotten African American soldiers," Holly K. Norton, the state archaeologist of Colorado, who was not involved in the research, told Live Science.
#kentuckyhistory #archaeology #AfricanAmericanHistory

This Cutting-Edge Encryption Originates in Renaissance Art and Math The mathematics underpinning the modern method of elliptic curve cryptography originated with Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi

🎨🖌️But how did Renaissance art lead to the mathematics that govern modern cryptography? The tale spans six centuries and two continents and touches on infinity itself.

#fineart #historymatters #RenaissanceArt

Civil rights leaders rally around National Museum of African American History Civil rights leaders launched a #HandsOffOurHistory campaign to rally to protect Black history from Trump's executive orders.

📢Organizers are calling on local groups throughout the week to support Black museums, libraries and other institutions in their communities.
Civil rights leaders also signed an affirmation to support the preservation of Black history.
#culturalheritage #museums #historymatters #HandsOffOurHistory

Sudan: How war ravaged museums and priceless artefacts Sudan's national museum is among the institutions that have been looted and vandalised during the war.

Senior officials say tens of thousands of artefacts were either destroyed or shipped off to be sold during the time the RSF was in control of central Khartoum, where the museum is situated.
#culturalheritage #museums #SudanHeritage

New tribal national park in North Dakota aims to preserve rugged and scenic landscape A new tribal national park in North Dakota is opening a little-seen area of the rugged Badlands to hikers and other outdoors enthusiasts

Tribal Chairman Mark Fox said the goal is to establish a park for cultural and recreational purposes such as canoeing, kayaking and viewing wildlife.

#TribalHeritage #indigenous

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Museum Told to Surrender Schiele Drawing to Heirs of Man Killed by Nazis A New York judge found that the Art Institute of Chicago’s drawing by Egon Schiele had been looted from an Austrian Jew who died in a concentration camp.

In hearings last year, the district attorney's office accused the Chicago museum of ignoring evidence of an elaborate fraud undertaken to conceal that the artwork had been stolen from Mr. Grünbaum by the Nazis on the eve of World War II.
#ArtRestitution #NaziLootedArt #ArtLaw

Trump, Burgum Move To Slash Energy Project Permitting Time Interior Secretary Doug Burgum moved in Wednesday to implement streamlined permitting procedures for energy projects on federal lands.

🚨National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA): Wednesday’s notice authorizes DOI bureaus to follow alternative procedures for compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act for proposed undertakings responding to the energy emergency.
#permitting #archaeology #culturalheritage

No stone left unrecorded: a grave researcher's quest through Highland One local researcher has documented more than 11,000 graves in Highland County and the surrounding areas – uncovering tales of intrigue, tragedy, and joy. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports.

When he's not at his day job at Green Valley Auctions, Botkin is often out documenting burial sites and scouring old newspapers and vital records for evidence of the people interred there.
#BurialSiteResearch #CemeteryExploration

Archaeologists Found a 6,500-Year-Old Hunting Kit With Poisoned Darts Inside Spear-throwers and boomerangs, anyone?

🪃Tucked deep within a West Texas cave, archaeologists discovered what is likely the oldest intact weapon system ever found in North America. ⁀➴
#ArchaeologicalFinds #CulturalHeritage #Archaeology #TexasHistory

REGISTER NOW! ⚖️ Marion Werkheiser will discuss how recent Trump administration actions may permit federal agencies to rubber stamp projects without public input, meaningful consultation with Tribes, or any obligation to avoid or mitigate damage to historic properties.
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Cleveland Museum of Art agrees to transfer ownership of ancient statue to Libya The Department of Antiquities of the State of Libya and the Cleveland Museum of Art have agreed to a transfer of a statue acquired by the museum 34 years ago.

The 2,200-year-old statue of a man, which has been in the museum’s collection since 1991, dates to the Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt and is believed to have been looted from the Ptolemais Museum in modern-day Libya during World War II.
#MuseumCollection #CulturalHeritage #Archaeology

In Montana, Native Women Are Reshaping Politics and Reclaiming Civic Space Amid political uncertainty, Native American women in Montana are leading social justice movements and shaping public policy. Historically marginalized in policymaking, Native voices are now gaining eq...

♀️These leaders advocate and take action, transforming Montana’s policy landscape and inspiring future generations.
#MontanaPolitics #Indigenous #NativeAmerican

America’s National Parks Are in Some Very Serious Trouble U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum just handed the country’s public lands over to a DOGE staffer and former oil exec.

🚨This move may sound merely bureaucratic on the surface, but a little probing reveals deep cause for alarm.

When Cultural Heritage Is Scrapped for Cash Scrap metal thieves in Los Angeles are targeting cherished public artworks and markers of the city’s history

❗Cultural property made of valuable metals, including outdoor sculptures and historical markers from cemeteries, parks, bridges, and buildings, has also been stolen, creating wounds that go deeper than cracks from a crowbar.
#CulturalHeritage #ArtTheft #LosAngeles

Gordon County development may be encroaching on historic plantation cemetery The Gordon County Civic Club is fighting a housing development being built next to the Colbert Cemetery in Calhoun.

A Gordon County judge ordered more testing after accusations that a subdivision under construction is encroaching on a historic cemetery.
#HistoricPreservation #CemeteryProtection

Trump administration plans to allow mining of sacred Oak Flat, leapfrogging courts - AZ Luminaria The Trump administration on Wednesday signaled it intends to approve a land transfer that will allow a foreign company to mine a sacred Indigenous site in Arizona, where local tribes and environmental...

Environmentalists, local opponents and members of the San Carlos Apache Tribe lambasted the administration’s decision to move forward without a ruling from the court.
#culturalheritage #Arizona

😍“The idea is that we’re going to capture every single stone today, every single name, and hopefully that will help descendants and future researchers find out more about their roots,” she said.
#CulturalHeritage #Genealogy #historymatters

Peri-peri patron: how Nando’s amassed a huge collection of South African art Chicken chain has been buying up art since 2004, which it displays on walls of its restaurants

Nando’s has been buying South African art to display in its peri-peri chicken restaurants globally since 2004, amassing a collection of about 32,000 pieces from 700 artists and becoming one of the country’s most significant supporters of visual artists.
#art #culturalheritage

AASHTO Journal - New Native American Art Decorates Ferry Terminal A pair of 10-foot-tall hand-carved Native American-themed “welcome poles” were recently installed in the passenger walkway at the Washington State Ferries (WSF) Bainbridge Island terminal. [Above phot...

Across the country, state departments of transportation are involved in a variety of cultural and archaeological efforts – many involving Native American communities.
#CulturalHeritage #NativeAmericanCulture #Transportation