There is one grant on this list of 81 projects that specifically focuses on the history of women and girls and that is just my tiny sigh for the day.

National Endowment for the Humanities@nehgov.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW NEH GRANTS! NEH awards $41.4 million for 81 humanities projects nationwide. Grants will support planning and implementation of exhibitions, the preservation and digitization of written works and records documenting American history, collaborative scholarly research, and more! buff.ly/gu0TM5b

"I'm in a very mixed parish, lots of Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Ecuadorians, Mexicans," explained Houlihan. "They all have sodalities and spiritual groups, and I knew their literature was not covering Mary Magdalene. I wanted to have an ethnically rich portrayal." www.ncronline.org/culture/mary...

Mary Magdalene exhibit at Catholic girls school helps students 'see themselves'

New York City is known for its exceptional art shows. Yet an exhibit depicting the Resurrection from Mary Magdalene's point of view is on display not at any of the city's great galleries, but in a Cat...

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"The Temple of Time" (1846) by Emma Willard.⠀ From our essay by Susan Schulten exploring the pioneering work of Emma Willard (1787–1870), a leading feminist educator whose innovative maps of time laid the groundwork for the charts and graphics of today: publicdomainreview.org/essay/e...

A thread with an ask: comments due today 🗃️

Seth Rockman@sethrockman.bsky.social · 3w ago

Scholarly folks who have ever received federal funding: today is the deadline for public comment on proposed revisions that will decimate our national research capacity and replace expertise with political whim. Please consider throwing in your 2¢. See below for some useful links and encouragement.

where is the nun who saged MSG

Lawrence Hurley@lawrencehurley.bsky.social · last mo.

People are sheltering at the African-American History & Culture museum

The Crossroads Project invites proposals for American Crossroads Fellows Grants (up to $15,000) to create interpretive material about African American religious history and provide opportunities for community engagement. Deadline: September 1, 2026 crossroads.princeton.edu/grant-progra...

We are grateful to the Henry Luce Foundation, @princetonccsr.bsky.social, and @princeton.edu for support of @xroadproj.bsky.social. We are also excited to have Vaughn A. Booker, @aejohnsonphd.bsky.social and @monicalmercado.bsky.social join the Crossroads Project's Advisory Board.

yoooooo I love history!! 🧡💙

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2mo ago

HISTORY.

look I realize I’m a New Yorker but separately on a deep spiritual level I also understand futzing around for the first three quarters and realizing all of a sudden you have to show up for the fourth

From Washington Heights to the Lower East Side, Nuyoricans have defined this city for generations. Here's to celebrating their contributions, their history and the future of our city.

There is no New York without Nuyoricans

YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office

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David Hockney, Daffodils in Vase, 1969, Smith College Museum of Art

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Just got back from this absolutely breathtaking exhibition. If you’re near Boston go go go to PEM before the show closes Sunday, June 7 🗃️ #museums

Hyperallergic@hyperallergic.com · 2mo ago

At the Peabody Essex Museum, a first-of-its-kind exhibition on sculptor Edmonia Lewis honors the pathbreaking artist’s Black and Indigenous ancestries.

The way you know Bluesky is not a representative sample is several people are livetweeting their reading of an encyclical

Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery

Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery

Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimizing slavery.

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In the interest of being a good professor, if you want to read the pertinent sections of Magnifica Humanitas on slavery, the "apology" and the implications for AI, skip to sections 172-181 of the Encyclical.

Maybe the perfect book to arrive at the office during Colgate graduation weekend? Congratulations, @dygottlieb.bsky.social!

If you saw me loitering by the UNC booth at OAH last weekend, I was reading the introduction to MINOR MOVES and it is the real deal! ✨

Dawn Durante@dawnd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Congratulations to Allison Curseen on the publication of MINOR MOVES: Black Girls and Unruly Performance in Antebellum Narratives (@uncpress). Allison’s book is brilliant and truly paradigm shifting for how we can read and understand stories about Black girls and Black girlhood.

OAH is rarely the place for #amrel but we were there and had a good time with a great audience 🪡

Thanks to everyone who has already stopped by the @uncpress.bsky.social booth at #OAH26. We’re looking forward to seeing more people and having more conversations today!

It’s summer in Philly and I stopped at Head House Books before I even checked in to my hotel.

tfw you're revising your OAH paper and fall into a minor rabbit hole about girl's clothing made out of fabric called nuns' veiling.

how am I supposed to finish writing anything today when I'm crying about space 🌘

Popping up to recommend my friend and #amrel scholar Melissa Borja’s great new limited series, One Million Neighbors: the story of U.S. faith communities‘ work in 1970s refugee resettlement in the Twin Cities and beyond 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

One Million Neighbors w/ Dr. Melissa Borja

History Podcast · One Million Neighbors is a limited podcast series about how American faith communities mobilized to do the impossible: resettling more than a million Southeast Asian refugees, in the...

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Favorite story in the obituary of Paula Doress-Worters (R.I.P.) — OBO’s #nuntastic connections 🙏https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/books/paula-doress-worters-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VVA._NYJ.0ocMYEdRbvLD&smid=url-share h/t @marie259.bsky.social

In case you weren't already convinced, Durba Mitra's beautiful introduction to The Future That Was is available to read on the Princeton UP website. What is the future we yearn for?

Durba Mitra@durba.bsky.social · 5mo ago

happy publication day to *The Future That Was* out today from @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

So thrilled to see this--Barbara Smith's collections include the records of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, handwritten drafts of the Combahee River Collective Statement, and Smith’s own electric JCPenney typewriter. (Maybe some Albany, NY records too?) www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ide...

Schlesinger Library Acquires the Papers of Groundbreaking Black Feminist Barbara Smith | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

Barbara Smith is a Black feminist trailblazer, author, and literary pioneer whose literary and political activism connects with key 20th-century cultural and political movements.

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just got off the phone with Oscar. he said sorry for snubbing ann lee despite the same creative team getting an insane amount of awards heat for a much worse movie a couple years ago. it’s okay i said. he said sorry for being a misogynist. i said it’s okay oscar. it’s okay

We are excited to share the CFP for next year's annual meeting in New Orleans, from January 7 through January 10! We are accepting proposals on any topic relevant to Catholic studies. To submit a proposal or visit our collaboration Google Sheet, visit achahistory.org/neworleans20....