Jessica Baloun | she/her 🍉

Museum professional and public humanist. Let’s see what we can learn from each other!

[Jessica Baloun | she/her 🍉 @jessballoon]

@OneAmerica I need this on your downtown Indy billboards STAT

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Technically, a dictionary is a book of spells.

[▼ Kiel James Patrick @KJP]

“Plaquemaxxing" is when you stop to read every plaque you come across. October is peak plaquemaxxing month

[Josh Cowen @joshcowenMI]

It’s always the guys from places like Yale who come up with ideas like closing down places like Youngstown State

[David Pepper @DavidPepper]

Miami. Akron. Wright State. Youngstown State. Bowling Green. Shawnee State.

And more.

According to Ramaswamy, just “clones of one another.”

[Appodlachia @appodlachia]

If a Honda Pilot going less than 1 mph causes you to “fear for your life”, you probably shouldn’t be given a gun.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Day laborer organizers in California are lining up at Home Depot to buy a single 17-cent scraper, return it, and repeat the process in an effort to slow sales and protest the store’s cooperation with ICE operations.

[Jessica Baloun | she/her 🍉 @jessballoon]

“Just look at the degree on that chick”💕

[Dr Daisy Dixon @daisyldixon]

“just look at the degree on that chick”

[Jessica Baloun | she/her 🍉 @jessballoon]

While the term "transgender" may have been popularized in the 20th century, gender non-conforming people have always been around. Check out this great piece on queer joy and shows that "a history that invites queerness is simply a more accurate history." https://t.co/VTMuQnonkH

[Dr. Colleen Shogan Archived @AOTUS11_Archive]

Employees often use tricycles to retrieve records at the National Archives and Records Administration facility in Valmeyer, Illinois. Located inside a cave, the facility holds up to 2.4 million cubic feet of records.

[IU Indianapolis Public History Program @IUIPubHist]

Sending the biggest welcome to our first and second year students! We are excited for all the fantastic things they will accomplish this year!

[IU Indianapolis Public History Program @IUIPubHist]

Last week, four of our students–Sarah, Emma, Jess, and Emma Jo–attended the @historymadebyus Youth250 workshop at @ConnerPrairie, speaking and learning about how we can commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

[Appodlachia @appodlachia]

This is very good

[National Mall NPS @NationalMallNPS]

Happy Juneteenth! On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers led by General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War had ended & that enslaved people in Texas were free. #Juneteenth -a name combining June and nineteenth- became a federal holiday in 2021.

[Jessica Baloun | she/her 🍉 @jessballoon]

Today in Indy we kicked off Civic Season at the Indiana Historical Society for a slice of pizza and crafts while learning about everyday resistance to the KKK in Indiana from the newest RESIST! exhibit.
I’ll be posting about civic season over the next few weeks so stay tuned!

[Jessica Baloun | she/her 🍉 @jessballoon]

Happy civic season eve!
Civic season is the period between America’s newest federal holiday (Juneteenth) and oldest (Independence day)…

#CivicSeason #MyCivicSeason
#CivicSeason2024

[Jessica Baloun | she/her 🍉 @jessballoon]

This year I am serving as a Civic Season Ambassador with @historymadebyus to help spread tools and activities happening across the country to help young people actively participate in our government and communities…

[Marius Kothor, Ph.D. @MariusKothor]

On archives: when I began grad school I was so immobilized by the fact that the women I wanted to write about weren’t visible in archival documents that I almost abandoned the project. It wasn’t until I began expanding my definition of archives that the project became possible.

[Akela Lacy @akela_lacy]

"dissent must never lead to disorder" is a pretty remarkable thing to say in a country founded on both of those things

[The Miami Student @miamistudent]

BREAKING // Miami University’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) led a march for Palestine on Thursday May 2 and has currently set up an encampment on Miami’s academic quad.

https://t.co/lpfcb8Ecfv