Our Founding Director Lonnie G. Bunch III was today named the Secretary of the @Smithsonian Institution. As Secretary, Bunch will oversee 19 museums, 21 libraries, the National Zoo, numerous research centers, and several education units and centers. Congrats to Secretary Bunch!
Just a reminder you need this book like Vance needs a hot poker in the eye.
“Appalachian Reckoning is the sound of the choir, pitch perfect in its capturing of these mountains and their people.” -me
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"College art museums are more likely to display donated works, keep collections together and incorporate them into the academic curriculum." —@WSJ https://t.co/vm7VtubHsT
Congrats Best Historical Album winner - 'Voices Of Mississippi: Artists And Musicians Documented By William Ferris' William Ferris, April Ledbetter & Steven Lance Ledbetter, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Various Artists) #GRAMMYs
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My department is making sure student evaluations are not hurting our jr faculty (esp women and faculty of color) by inserting language into EVERY promotion and tenure review letter highlighting research about bias (even when evals are stellar). What is your department doing?
We need a paradigm shift in how Native American artifacts are presented in museums. And it isn't the shift the professionals talk about. My review "Art of Native America" @metmuseum WSJ Opinion
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White House State Dining Room fireplace is inscribed with the wish of President John Adams--“May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof”:
Credit the student activists & research into Silent Sam's history by students & faculty: Board of Governors rejects the plan to build a new museum for Silent Sam, the Confederate monument @UNC!
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I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
- Langston Hughes
It's really worth reading this DOJ memo outlining the intimidation tactics undertaken by Sen. Jesse Helms campaign in 1990 and 1984. Thomas Farr, on the verge of being confirmed to a lifetime seat on the federal bench, worked for the campaign https://t.co/zIWDfBTDHY
#CoastGuard Cutter Bridle kicked off their ice breaking season today on the Penobscot River in #Maine. #DYK more than 85% of the nation's home heating oil needs are in the northeastern U.S., and 90% of that fuel will be delivered, at some point, by barge?