Kathryn Holliday

Hello Bluesky - quiet poster here sharing architecture, urbanism, and heritage/preservation research and teaching, plus telephone buildings (like this favorite in Columbus, Indiana).

"There are many ways to destroy a university."

Internal emails and documents obtained by The New York Times demonstrate President Trump’s political capture of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...

20 fantastic scholars and 20 amazing essays. We worked hard on this and are glad to able to share it now!

Looking for fresh material for your architectural history syllabus? Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Assoc Ed Sheila Crane explores how JSAH roundtables can spark new conversations in the classroom. @sah1365.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/r...

Early registration is now open for SAH's 6th annual Virtual Conference! This 3-day online event offers paper sessions and roundtables showcasing research in architectural history by scholars around the world. View the preliminary program: sah.org/conferences/...

Do you love Chicago's courtyard buildings? They may soon be on the National Register of Historic Places. https://bit.ly/3R1g1sZ 📸: Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

This is a local historic preservation action call! While there is so much preservation trouble at rhe national level, it is equally rough on the ground. Urbana, Illinois Civic Center crtitcal landmark vote Monday night. Read more here www.smilepolitely.com/opinion/the-...

Just confirming that Made by History will now be back up and running in the next few weeks with a new home and new partners at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Exciting! So, if you have pitches, now's the time to start sending them to madebyhistory@inquirer.com 🗃️ #MadebyHistory #HistoryMatters

This is a long shot given how local my network is on here but I’ve complied a fair amount of resources on how to identify the vehicles and agents involved in these raids and what to do if you see them. Happy to share with anybody looking to set up patrols in New Orleans or Charlotte, DM me

This is a fantastic set of reflections on the meaning of the American South and how we teach, research, and talk about it

"Instead of focusing on what computer vision can achieve in processing images, I want to offer a historical account of the language and the feelings used to frame its imagined role in art-historical practice." www.artforum.com/features/gen...

J. D. Vance: I’m here to surprise a really deserving family with a total home makeover! The family is the Trumps! Donald, the patriarch, is the monarch of a small, backwater nation. He’s hoping to completely redo his house so that one day, he can pass it down to his kids!

"Understanding what this place offers is deepened by learning how it came to be."

Our local arts & culture mag wrote a super nice piece on my students' work documenting neighborhood histories in postwar Champaign-Urbana (thank you!) - very proud of the student work and look forward to adding to this project with future classes www.smilepolitely.com/culture/stud...

Historic Preservation job in my hometown - the Preservation Resource Center is in such a lovely Gothic Revival warehouse by the GNO bridge. Great opportunity to help make preservation work in New Orleans! preservenet.org/job/preserva...

New from me in Mas Context: In February NPS removed Transgender and Queer from the Stonewall National Monument website. NPS also removed LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer History—the 1st federal account of the LGBTQ community.

✨ Job posting: ✨Visiting Assistant Director of the Humanities Without Walls program at the HRI, U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign✨ illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Everyone deserves dignity and equality regardless of who they are or who they love. On International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, know that Illinois stands with our LGBTQ+ community. Hate has no home here in the Land of Lincoln.

The Society of Architectural Historians welcomes paper submissions for its 79th Annual International Conference in Mexico City April 15-19, 2026. 50+ sessions target diverse topics across the length and breadth of history. Submit by June 5, 2025. www.sah.org/docs/default...

From The Clay Studio in Philadelphia (and I’m part of the team 😎): “How do we observe the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States in 2026? How has the Declaration of Independence been commemorated or criticized in the past?” (1/2)

Ireland phone. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1... #StPatricksDay

SHOT 2025 Open sessions Individuals and groups interested in finding others to join an organized session can submit an open session proposal to be posted on the open sessions list below. The list will be updated daily until March 23th, 2025. www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeti...

If you think they will not notice you consider the words listed below. They include or describe work across disciplines, practices, and world views. Stand up now

Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let despair overcome us when our country needs us the most.

📢 Big news: UT's Architecture & Planning Library has been renamed to honor John S. Chase, Texas’ 1st Black licensed architect & 1st Black graduate of UT’s School of Architecture. Celebrate a legacy of breaking barriers & building community. 🏛️ ow.ly/6iHY50UM6T3

Our exhibition is open! Highlighting 4 houses that facilitate performance, designed by architecture faculty for colleagues & themselves. Over the next few days I'll share about the houses, for now here's the exhibition webpage with much supporting archival material kam.illinois.edu/exhibition/m...

While the adaptive reuse and retrofit of heritage buildings is currently the main topic of discussion in the world of architecture, the humble telephone box has been a trailblazer in this for decades: from micro-galleries to farm shops, lending libraries to food banks.

Since moving to Illinois a year and a half ago, I've been working on a project about a group of postwar modernist architects in Champaign-Urbana (and started living in a crazy house by one of them). The exhibition based on part of that work is being installed now - look forward to sharing more soon!

Great list for historic preservation folks!

These photographs and drone views of corn infrastructure in Decatur, Illinois are fascinating - nature's metropolis through the looking glass