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Looking for a way to explore history from home? Our website and app offer 30,000+ landmarks and 700+ virtual tours. theclio.com #nonprofit

David Trowbridge and his app Clio were featured in Kansas City Magazine! "Imagine walking through Loose Park and your phone notifying you that local historian Bill Worley can tell you the story of how the park came to be." kansascitymag.com/umkc-professor…

Congratulations to Sean Babineau on his Eagle Scout project- a Clio tour of his hometown! Story here: recorder.com/Eagle-Scout-pr…

Black female figures were a powerful force that drove 19th-century Cambridge forward. Their ideas came to life in churches, schools, and other spaces that still stand today. Stroll through the sites where Black women made history with this walking tour: camb.ma/4bwQBcq.

This is a tour of Stamps, AR, made with @thecliodotcom about Dr. Maya Angelou and her autobiography “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” I hope this will aid readers worldwide to root her work in the space it partly emerged from. theclio.com/tour/2596

#OTD in 1960, four African American @NCATSUAggies students, named the Greensboro Four, staged a nonviolent sit-in at a lunch counter in #Greensboro, #NC. Learn about the impact of these protests, with the #NEHgrant-funded @Thecliodotcom: theclio.com/tour/1129/8

Here is a walking tour of my hometown of Nashville, AR, made with @thecliodotcom You’ll learn about: ➡️ the first location of @Dillards ➡️ the congress secretary involved in the USA’s entry into WWI & WWII ➡️ why “Arkansas’s” is officially correct theclio.com/tour/2587

Excellent work by the article's author and @UnivOfKansas Michelle Sanchez in this semester's civil rights course from @KUHistoryDept @KUafs

This monument honoring the landmark 1947 school desegregation case Mendez v. Westminster was dedicated last year. #MonumentsMatter #PublicHistory theclio.com/entry/175161

The Monuments Project is an unprecedented multi-year commitment by the Mellon Foundation aimed at transforming the nation’s commemorative landscape. The Project funds public initiatives that promote unrepresented stories in commemorative spaces. mellon.org/article/the-mo…

And so much more! Thank you Jeopardy for this question in yesterday’s show.

@WalterDGreason @socialstudiestx @ncte @NCSSNetwork @teachbk @SteinbrinkLaura @msnikki_p @jedipadmaster @heymrsbond @support_a_teach @offgridteacher @NHTOYMc @awfrench1 We hope you will:) the new options for audio at landmarks and within tours could embed short oral history clips and voices of scholars and local narrators and as always- links to related books and articles.

Congratulations to this year's SHA Award Winners! Tim Case, winner of the William F. Holmes Award for the best paper presented by a graduate student or junior faculty member Liana DeMarco, winner of the C. Vann Woodward Award for the best dissertation on southern history 1

@jbf1755 It’s probably time for the muse of history to join the other birds in the sky ;)

Any one want to fly in the blue sky?

Please take action to support the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join @HumanitiesAll and take action here: p2a.co/UJ6K3dQ

The AHA mourns the passing of former AHA president Natalie Zemon Davis. An influential and prodigious scholar and a dedicated teacher, her research and her mentorship has left a lasting impression on those who knew her and on the historical discipline.

The @NEH_ODH is hiring a program officer ("humanities administrator"). Please spread the word. See the announcement: usajobs.gov/job/748496600

This is a good article about the importance of museums. thebaltimorebanner.com/culture/things…

Aviator Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, was born in #Atchison, #KS, #OTD in 1897. Visit Earhart’s birthplace and early childhood home, which is now a museum, with the #NEHgrant-funded @thecliodotcom. bit.ly/3K4B7A3

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