Heather Ewing

Grangerizing or “extra-illustrating” a book was a passion of bibliophiles and collectors in England in late 18c and 19c. ✨

Just read (+ blurbed) the galleys of this book! It's 🌟🎉🪴🔥💕!! A thrilling, moving, heartening text, given shape through @dorothyjberry.bsky.social's + @wehere.bsky.social's clever play on bibliographic + bureaucratic form. Such a ✨ mix of protocol + improvisation. Can't wait to see this out in the 🌏

FYI if you're in LA this fall into next spring, two art spaces—MOCA & The Brick—will be hosting a show built around decommissioned Confederate monuments & contemporary artists' responses to them. Co-curated by Hamza Walker & Kara Walker. I think it'll be fascinating & timely the-brick.org/monuments

What a great thread!

I never thought to see something like this in my lifetime, what a profound joy

Outbreak DIY

2018 Outbreak exhibit curated by Sabrina Sholts at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History— they created a DIY toolkit: naturalhistory.si.edu/exhibits/diy...

Absolutely love this

Rainer Ohliger in Berlin?

TIL Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense in a Chipotle

And it was great! 👏👏

Zadie Smith reading her book The Fraud 💯

🚨 Save American Science. Call your Senators if you live in one of these states.

Every living NASA science chief unites in opposition to unprecedented… The entire past leadership of NASA’s science activities have released a joint statement condemning the proposed 47% cuts proposed to the agency’s science…

Today, *every* living prior leader of NASA's science directorate have released a joint letter condemning the proposed cuts to NASA science. These individuals every administration from Reagan to Biden, and all believe these cuts are insanely destructive: www.planetary.org/press-releas...

Dr. Joanne Freeman Professor Joanne Freeman is an award-winning historian who studies the politics and culture of America's past to better understand our history as a nation, and the roads and choices that have led us t...

Hey folks,

Given some closings for July 4, I’ll be experimenting with doing “History Matters” from my YouTube channel.

Was planning to discuss what 1775 has to tell us.

Now I’ve got more to say.

Join us at 10 AM ET at:

m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...

Wish it could be live-streamed!—sounds terrific.

Screenshot from C4 News showing a close in of a nebula Light from millions of distant galaxies captured by new space telescope Source: NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory 34 lune 2025 channel4news

Just saw @vrubinobs.bsky.social made Channel 4 News in the UK and it’s worth saying that this is what happens when American science is publicly funded and it benefits not just Americans but people across the world. That funding is at risk right now. 🔭
www.instagram.com/reel/DLPgwYZ...

Small outbuilding made of stone with a barn-style door

If you need cheering up, here is my favorite feature of Frederick Douglass’ home in DC, which I visited today: his “growlery,” where he would escape to read, write or fume. What I wouldn’t give for my own growlery

Excellent thread

Trump Cuts Leave Few Caretakers for a Massive Federal Art Collection

Everything Charlotte Cohen and Wendy Feuer say here is spot on. If there’s no one to oversee and the condition and location of the art works, and to insure they’re maintained, we may well lose a magnificent national collection of unique breadth and significance. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/a...

Wowser! Great sleuthing by @mlobelart.bsky.social on the threatened GSA collection — which belongs to all of us

Koyo Kouoh: Cameroonian art curator aged 57 at height of career A fierce advocate of African art, she was due to become the first African woman to lead the Venice Biennale.

From the BBC, a surprisingly good obituary of Koyo Kouoh, a towering figure in the contemporary art world, who has died far too young.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

A screenshot of the map, zoomed in to the Middle West, with Michigan in the upper right and northern Missouri in the lower left. I clicked on a random dot in central Indiana and a pop-up identified the dot as a municipal pool in Kokomo, Indiana. It further said, "The Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a municipal pool in Kokomo, Indiana. Living New Deal believes the facility has since been replaced and likely demolished." You can find out more if you want by clicking on another button.

This map all of the projects built by the New Deal is really remarkable. Astounding how much was built in such a short time. Clicking on each dot brings up a project -- and there are so many of them, and so varied. livingnewdeal.org/map/

The American Library Association praises servic of Dr. Carla Hayden, decries 'unjust dismissal' of Librarian of Congress. [Image of Dr. Carla Hayden standing in the stacks in a library]

NEW: ALA salutes Dr Carla Hayden for her exceptional service to the nation as the Librarian of Congress. We are deeply disappointed in Dr Hayden's abrupt & unjust dismissal last night, an insult to the scope & breadth of her work.

Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...

Julia Alexander was a friend and brilliant colleague. We were thrilled to appoint her as President of the Kress Foundation. Even in the short time she was with us, she created major, positive change. I'll miss her greatly.

Statement on Smithsonian Collection Items | Smithsonian Institution Recent reports about the Smithsonian removing the historic Greensboro, North Carolina, lunch counter and a stool from the National Museum of American History and National Museum of African American Hi...

www.si.edu/newsdesk/rel...

For the Monday morning crowd: a 🧵on how to appeal your NEH grant termination. Please share with NEH grantees.

I also summarized in a shareable google doc, available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway. This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.

Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!

Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.

Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
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A projection on the outside of the Old North Church reading "Let the WARNING ride forth ONCE MORE: TYRANNY is at OUR DOOR"

Old North Church in Boston last night on the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride.

One wing of the origami crane says, "1942 Never Again" with drawings of Japanese American children, and part of the body says, "Never Again is Now" with historical details written below.

The neck of the origami crane sign says "Free Them All", the tail says "Close The Camps". The other wing says "Is Now 2020", with a drawing of immigrant children separated from their families behind fencing.

One of the most incredible protest signs I've ever seen. A Japanese American woman folded a huge origami crane to honor the children of Japanese American internment camps & protest current ICE camps.

📸 permission at the Vigil to Stop ICE Expansion in Dublin, CA 4/16/25

✊🏻 NEVER AGAIN IS NOW ❤️

So well deserved! Congrats Allie 💕🤩