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Nick DeLuca is a public historian. He's originally from New England but now lives in the West.
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Canceling Citizenship Ceremonies at Faneuil Hall was an Affront to its History | CommonWealth Beacon
Canceling Citizenship Ceremonies at Faneuil Hall was an Affront to its History | CommonWealth Beacon
This wasn’t just a canceled ceremony; it was the quiet erasure of a tradition that once made American citizenship visible, contested, and public.
Echoes of the 1850s in Minnesota | WBUR
Echoes of the 1850s in Minnesota | WBUR
The public fury resulting from the U.S. government's enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and the Trump administration's immigration policies today are remarkably similar, writes Nick DeLuca. "It’s not an apples-to-apples comparison, but the parallels are striking," he writes.
AHC and Grand Encampment Museum Unite to Share Lora Webb Nichols's Remarkable Wyoming Archive | Blog of the AHC
AHC and Grand Encampment Museum Unite to Share Lora Webb Nichols's Remarkable Wyoming Archive | Blog of the AHC
Lora Webb Nichols (1883-1962) was a prolific diarist and photographer who lived most of her life in southcentral Wyoming. She accumulated more than 24,000 negatives, representing the many shades of…
R.I. Museum Urged to Rethink Historical Exhibit | Boston Globe
R.I. Museum Urged to Rethink Historical Exhibit | Boston Globe
A Providence Children’s Museum gallery depicting people who immigrated to Rhode Island omits the history of Indigenous, African, and enslaved communities that lived around Narragansett Bay, writes a public historian.
When Is History Advocacy? | Contingent Magazine
When Is History Advocacy? | Contingent Magazine
Advocacy should not be a dirty word.
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