It's never too early to apply for the 2025 PHMC Keystone Summer #Internship program! - bit.ly/3VI81MX

Happy 2025, everyone! At the Tudor court, New Year's Day was cause for celebration & spectacle, as 1 January was the traditional day of gift-giving, as opposed to Christmas At Henry VIII's court, New Year's Day 1532 was also an opportunity to display both favoritism & malice 🧵

“We look forward to doing whatever we can to make sure this proposal is included in the state budget.” —APSCUF President Ken Mash Read his full statement: bit.ly/3EmOeNf The budget proposal: pa.gov/governor/gover…

Six Surprising Foods with Medieval Roots medievalists.net/2025/01/surpri… #Food

Medieval University Life Was Rough—Just Ask the Freshmen medievalists.net/2025/02/mediev… #medievaleducation

Mausoleum of Augustus piazza opens! Ancient Rome Live

The June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France used the largest-ever armada of troops and vehicles to breach Hitler’s defenses in western Europe. wnep.com/article/news/n…

On June 5, 1889, five days after the Great Johnstown Flood, the American Society of Civil Engineers appointed a committee to investigate the cause of the disaster. The committee determined that, even if it had been maintained within the original design specifications, the South

On this day in 1963, civil rights activist & organizer Medgar Evers was shot and killed outside his Jackson, Mississippi home by an avowed white supremacist. The story of Evers' activism is told within the collections of the NAACP, held at the Library. blogs.loc.gov/manuscripts/20…

“We launched an investigation titled, ‘Can the Arts Get Under the Skin?’ The answer was a resounding ‘yes.’” —Professor Ellie Brown, West Chester University whyy.org/segments/the-a… #ICYMI

#OTD in #history 1875, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune was born. Though her parents were once enslaved, Bethune became a chief advisor to FDR & an influential champion of racial & gender equity. In 2022, she became the 1st African American & 10th woman honored in #Congress' Statuary Hall

How did the ancestors of the Navajo and Apache journey the 1,500-plus miles from the Canadian Subarctic to the American desert Southwest? What happened along the way? Archaeologists are excavating and studying Utah's Promontory Caves for answers. archaeology.org/issues/septemb…

Medieval teachers complaining about their students medievalists.net/2023/09/mediev… #Teachers

This week we're looking at depictions of the goddess Hathor. Hathor is one of the most popular Egyptian deities, who is worshipped not only in Egypt but also abroad. As a result, there is a lot of information about the personnel who served in her temples, such as this statue here

We just updated the job listings on our website w/ 2 opportunities at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and 3 paid internships with the Museum of the American Revolution. pamuseums.wildapricot.org/Careers

The CIA Factbook was discontinued today, depriving students of an essential resource for information about the world. Spent my morning writing my elected representatives to express disappointment. cia.gov/stories/story/…