The Peoria Project is the latest work of Ellen Tucker and David Tucker.
Educating Citizens https://peoriaproject.org/category/https-peoriaproject-org-category-educating-citizens/
The Peoria Project is the latest work of Ellen Tucker and David Tucker.
Educating Citizens https://peoriaproject.org/category/https-peoriaproject-org-category-educating-citizens/
Trump wants Americans to report signs in National Parks that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.” These signs will be removed from public view; effectively whitewashing history.
Please help preserve American stories. If you visit a National Park this summer, consider taking photos of any signage that you see. Photos will be preserved and archived for future generations.
According to internal documents reviewed by The New York Times, employees of the #NationalParkService have flagged descriptions & displays at scores of parks and historic sites for review in connection with #Trump’s directive to remove or cover up materials that “inappropriately disparage Americans.”
#Trump Told #Park Workers to Report Displays That ‘Disparage’ Americans.
Descriptions & displays at scores of #parks & #HistoricSites have been flagged for review in connection with an #ExecutiveOrder from Trump.
#revisionism #whitewashing #AmericanHistory
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/trump-national-park-service-history-changes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
FEATURED JOB: Assistant Professor in Sport, Media, and Culture [Tenure Track] University of Notre Dame, Indiana
https://networks.h-net.org/jobs/68894/university-notre-dame-assistant-professor-sport-media-and-culture
FEATURED JOB: Assistant Professor, 20th Century U.S. Political History [Tenure Track] Department of History - University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Hundreds of aviation trainees soloed at Alabama's Moton Field. Today we know them as the Tuskegee Airmen, the famed WWII Black aviators. See where they started:
https://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2024/07/24/tuskegee-airmen-where-they-trained/
#OnThisDay, 22 July 1939, Jane Bolin becomes the first African-American woman to be appointed as a judge in the USA.
Kaitlin Reed's book "Settler Cannabis" places the Northern California green rush in the historical context of settler-colonial violence against #Yurok & other Indigenous peoples of #California
Addicted to new books? We got 2 trippy reads for you!
"The Acid Queen" by Susannah Cahalan recounts the #biography of Rosemary Woodruff Leary, ex-wife of Timothy Leary & #counterculture icon
#AmericanHistory #Popculture #AmericanStudies
Read Cahalan's Vogue article: https://www.vogue.com/article/the-little-known-story-of-rosemary-woodruff-leary
Save Our Signs
Join the effort to build a community archive of the signs, exhibits, and texts that could soon disappear from US National Parks.
This summer, let’s #SaveOurSigns
1. Find a National Park Service site to visit.
2. Take photos of any signage, including markers and monuments.
3. Upload those images to this site:
https://umn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4VKNSNsfJuIVOIu
#NationalParks #Signage #Archive #History #Preservation #AmericanHistory
#OnThisDay, 17 July 1972, Susan Roley and Joanne Pierce become the first women to be appointed FBI special agents since the 1920s.
J Edgar Hoover had dismissed any women working as special agents when he took over the FBI, and the ban had remained in place until his death.
Watch an interview here:
https://youtu.be/N_2yu0sVicw
FEATURED JOB: Full Professor, Annenberg Chair in American Studies and Journalism - University of Notre Dame, Indiana
City Beautiful Blog's piece on Alexander Hamilton traces his extraordinary rise from illegitimate beginnings to becoming one of America's most influential founding fathers. How Hamilton overcame social stigma and poverty through sheer intellect and determination remains as compelling today as it was revolutionary in his time. A reminder: brilliance and perseverance can transcend any circumstance. #Hamilton #AmericanHistory #foundingfathers #biography #determination https://citybeautifulblog.com/2025/06/18/alexander-hamilton-from-illegitimacy-to-immortality/
It's #humpday! Week only halfway done but feels like an eternity? Read this book by David M. Henkin to find out whom to thank for the 7-day week, as read through the lens of #AmericanLiterature, diaries, periodicals & other ephemera
AO THROWBACK - Often there are hidden truths and old tales that get lost with each generation. As such there is an untold story about the United States that begins in the United States that begins in the 1600s.
https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-americas/330-years-unknown-history-oldest-road-america-finally-surfaces-004265
#ancientorigins #ancient #history #ancienthistory #historylovers #historyfacts #historymatters #archaeology #Throwback #AmericanHistory #UntoldStories
#NationalPark gift shops directed to remove items that ‘disparage Americans’
#Trump officials have directed staff at #NationalParks to review all items in gift shops for *anti-American* content, according to an internal directive reviewed by The Washington Post. The move is part of the administration’s wider campaign to scrub federal institutions of “corrosive ideology” recognizing historical #racism & #sexism.
#revisionism #whitewashing #history #AmericanHistory
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/07/12/national-parks-shops-products-review/
"If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."
#OnThisDay, 12 July 1972, Shirley Chisholm becomes the first Black US Presidential candidate, winning 152 votes in the first ballot at the Democratic National Convention.
#OnThisDay, 11 July 1871, Margaret E Knight wins a patent lawsuit and is awarded the patent for flat-bottomed paper bag making machines.
No reliable image, so here's a bag in use.