First Catholic women’s college in Louisiana: St Marry’s Dominican College, now Greenville Hall of Loyola. Built ca. 1880 by William Fitzner. St Charles Avenue, New Orleans.

“By the 1970s, occupational disease was estimated to kill up to 100,000 Americans a year.” Alan Derickson unravels the social/political forces.. that led to a movement for a workers' right to know about threats. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... #publichistory #laborhistory #workersrights

Fighting Toxic Ignorance by Alan Derickson | Paperback | Cornell University Press

Fighting Toxic Ignorance explores conflict over access to information regarding health hazards encountered in the US workplace during the first three-quarters of the twentieth century. Alan Derickson....

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Making Your Voice Heard: 5 Issues Important to Historic Preservation | National Trust for Historic Preservation

Connect with other organization, refresh your advocacy toolbox, and fight for the issues that are important to the work of historic preservation.

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Today we spent time with community members cleaning the Woodland Plantation historic marker along with trash surrounding it. While it doesn’t tell the whole story, this sign holds space for descendants of enslaved people who live adjacent to the historic sites that affected their ancestors.

I believe there should be a law that would automatically protect all trees from unnecessary felling. Too many are left unprotected under current rules. It's time we gave our trees the same care we give our historic buildings.

The Hawkes Children’s Library, which sits on the bank of the Chattahoochee in West Point. Built in 1922, with funding by Andrew Carnegie and Albert King Hawkes. Back when the wealthy built libraries instead of defunding them. #westpointga #libraries #hawkeschildrenslibraries

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A New Nature Station

Years in the making, the Frenchtown Conservation Area opens its visitor’s center to the public

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Elon Musk’s staffers are trying to push into the National Gallery of Art. They recently met with the museum’s director and legal team, to question its legal status and explore ways to assert influence. One of the nation’s most respected art institutions is now in their crosshairs.

Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release.

Verite News@veritenews.org · last yr.

The algorithm that determines parole eligibility in Louisiana doesn't factor in rehabilitation efforts. It only considers past factors like criminal history and prior parole violations - things prisoners can't change no matter how they improve themselves.

> Interestingly, historic sites commemorating the Confederacy are conspicuously absent and exempt from Trump’s federal cost-cutting.

Stephanie Kennedy@wordswithsteph.bsky.social · last yr.

The Trump regime is targeting America’s Black history — dismissing it as government waste. Aiming to quickly dispose of the monuments and facts of our past. DOGE-driven cuts led the General Services Administration — the agency that manages federal property — to put the historic Montgomery,…

"Law enforcement once stopped a woman’s funeral in progress, leaving a freshly dug grave open. The deceased had to be taken back to the funeral home, where she sat for a week" bc #Westlake Co. says it owns a #HistoricCemetery that the #Black community has a deed to. www.mpbonline.org/blogs/news/p...

Place, Erased: The fight for the remains of a Louisiana town

Toxic pollution forced a small, Black community in Louisiana to relocate. Now, chemical companies say they own its final remnant — the town’s cemetery.

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One of the reasons why it is so important to highlight this historic site is because the MAAH still exists in the shadows of the Freedom Trail, which was developed after WWII to highlight a history that was intended to rally white Americans at the height of the Cold War. Please visit the MAAH.

Kevin M. Levin@civilwarmemory.bsky.social · last yr.

Trump Cuts Funds for Boston's Museum of African American History 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

The MAAH does a lot of great work and protects one of the most interesting historic buildings in the city. @universalhub.com

RobertGoulstonNews@robertgoulstonnews.bsky.social · last yr.

Massachusetts’ Museum of African American History learned Wednesday night a three-year federal grant was terminated. Its leader worries their work is at risk after President Donald Trump issued an executive order targeting the Smithsonian last month. @gbhnews.bsky.social

Help track changes to national parks and historic sites!

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · last yr.

The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic is asking the public to help them track changes the Trump Admin is making to history-- in national parks, websites, wherever. Please share-- and please contribute! thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...

Today, Senators introduced the ‘Fix Our Forests Act.” The bill would stifle citizen voices, remove science from land management decisions & facilitate a large scale rollback of the Endangered Species Act, National Historic Preservation Act, & National Environmental Policy Act.

Earthjustice Statement on Senate Fix Our Forests Act

“Congress should support real solutions like the Community Protection and Wildfire Resiliency Act that put the safety and needs of communities over the timber industry’s profits.”

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Stephanyyk@stephanyyk.bsky.social · last yr.

Gravehouse, interior view. Haw Creek Cemetery. Forsyth County. The burials occurred in 1875 and 1882, so obviously the gravehouse has had repair work done. The original roof (either tin or wooden shingles I would guess) has been replaced with synthetic materials. #georgiacemeteries #gravehouse

Explore some of the flora native to National Trust Historic Sites and Historic Artists' Homes & Studios. #nativegardening #nativeplants #artiststudio #historicpres #nationaltrust savingplaces.org/stories/23-n...

What's Your Zone? 23 Native Plants to Fill Your Garden | National Trust for Historic Preservation

Explore some of the flora native to National Trust Historic Sites and Historic Artists' Homes and Studios.

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The #Folklore Advocacy Toolkit is a guide to promoting and sustaining folklore work in the United States, including tips and case studies specific to #nonprofit organizations, higher education, independent #folklorists, and community scholars. americanfolkloresociety.org/second-editi...

Second Edition of Folklore Advocacy Toolkit Now Available as Downloadable PDF - The American Folklore Society

The second edition of the Folklore Advocacy Toolkit, produced by the Media and Public Outreach Committee, is now available for download from the AFS website. The Folklore Advocacy Toolkit is a guide t...

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Katrina memorial honoring “The Good Samaritan” during the storm. St Bernard Parish Courthouse. #Louisiana #stbernardparish #hurricanekatrina #sculpture

Camelback shotgun house. Lower 9th ward. #NewOrleans #neworleansarchitecture #neworleans #shotgunhouse #Blackhistory

www.military.com/daily-news/2... #misogyny #women #equalrights #feminism #dei

Army Deleting Online Content Related to Women, Minorities Using Key Words Like 'Respect' and 'Dignity'

The deletion of photos, video and other content is part of an order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that all the military services eliminate online material not allowed by the Trump administration.

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#Columbia expelled student #antiNazi protestors in 1936. USA protects the KKK, who collectively murdered Black people. Yet, peacefully protesting a country that the Hague said is committing genocide is some how antisemitic and illegal. K. #AntonyLoewestein has the answer. #MahmoudKhalil #Khalil

New Analysis Finds Immigrants have 150 Years of Lower Incarceration Rates Relative to U.S.-Born lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/self-society...

Forget What You Know about Immigrants and Crime

New research finds that for the past 150 years, immigrants in the United States have had lower incarceration rates than the U.S.-born, and since the 1960s that gap has significantly grown.

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If you care about preserving online resources being scrubbed from federal gov't websites, support the work of the Internet Archive. I've used it for teaching, research, and writing. I donated & hope you will, too. archive.org

A French University is funding a Safe Place For Science program meant to recruit scientists who cannot continue their work in the US. www.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/a...

Old Cotton Warehouses in the lower 9th ward. Looking North, the levee is behind me, perpendicular to the street. ca 1910-30 #neworleansarchitecture #oldbuildings #masonry #neworleans #architecture #historicpreservation

astrastarstrider⚡️@camelshitonthewall.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hear constitutional scholar & law professor Evan Bernick👇 lay out what the dems CAN & SHOULD do. The March 14th protest is a good place/time to PUSH on them to ACT once and for all!! (The WORLD is in dire need of those we thought of as the "grown-ups" in the room to ACT!!) youtu.be/CcUzoe6eXvw?...

Stephanyyk@stephanyyk.bsky.social · 2y ago

St. Paul A.M.E. in Wayside. There is a small cemetery to the right. I only saw marked graves dating back to the 1980s, but Find A Grave lists burials back to the 1920s. I’ve also found obituaries for church members which indicate the church was active in the 1920s. #georgiachurch #amechurch #wayside