Heather Bailey, PhD
@preservationbailey.bsky.social
Preservation Planner for City of Madison, WI; mom, nerd, bibliophile, taekwondo enthusiast
@danecountyboard.bsky.social has created an excellent program to help property owners remove racially restrictive covenants from their property. This is a great opportunity for property owners and neighborhoods to right a past wrong. danecountyplanning.com/Prejudice-in...
Prejudice in Places | Dane County Planning & Development
Prejudice in Places, mapping racially restrictive real estate documents
danecountyplanning.com
July 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
@danecountyboard.bsky.social has created an excellent program to help property owners remove racially restrictive covenants from their property. This is a great opportunity for property owners and neighborhoods to right a past wrong. danecountyplanning.com/Prejudice-in...
I wish more people loved their historic places like this. These places can be integral to what it means to be in community with one another: episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/07/09/w...
Wisconsin congregation preserves historic Capitol Square church as ongoing act of faithfulness
[Episcopal News Service – Madison, Wisconsin] Building maintenance at Grace Episcopal Church is an ongoing challenge. That may come as no surprise for a 170-year-old church made from porous sandsto…
episcopalnewsservice.org
July 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I wish more people loved their historic places like this. These places can be integral to what it means to be in community with one another: episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/07/09/w...
Part of why we do history work is so that we can reach the point of "when you know better, do better." Stories like this need to be told, and we need to hear them so we can make better choices: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/11/b...
New paper sheds light on experience of Black prisoners in infamous Illinois prison malaria experiments
The role of Black prisoners helped lead to the practice of using genetic testing to understand how patients will react to medications, according to the paper.
www.chicagotribune.com
June 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Part of why we do history work is so that we can reach the point of "when you know better, do better." Stories like this need to be told, and we need to hear them so we can make better choices: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/11/b...
This is a great training opportunity for preservation professionals, but also for anyone who serves on a historic preservation commission:
www.bigmarker.com/series/2025-...
www.bigmarker.com/series/2025-...
2025 NAPC Virtual Summer Short Course
The sessions pictured below will be available for on-demand viewing until November 5, 2021.
Click on each webinar below to view the recording. Please contact NAPC at [email protected] to r...
www.bigmarker.com
June 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This is a great training opportunity for preservation professionals, but also for anyone who serves on a historic preservation commission:
www.bigmarker.com/series/2025-...
www.bigmarker.com/series/2025-...
The National History Day program creates engaged citizens who can make informed choices based on actual evidence. It's the essence of what I believe history education needs to do in our Republic: ask hard questions and discern real evidence from disinformation.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Students use National History Day to challenge power, spark change
At National History Day, middle and high school students study history during an historic moment
www.usatoday.com
June 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The National History Day program creates engaged citizens who can make informed choices based on actual evidence. It's the essence of what I believe history education needs to do in our Republic: ask hard questions and discern real evidence from disinformation.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
For shame #WisconsinHistoricalSociety. Gov Evers said it best: "When the pride flag flies above the people’s house, it sends a clear message that Wisconsin recognizes and celebrates LGBTQ Wisconsinites and Americans."
June 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
For shame #WisconsinHistoricalSociety. Gov Evers said it best: "When the pride flag flies above the people’s house, it sends a clear message that Wisconsin recognizes and celebrates LGBTQ Wisconsinites and Americans."
Join the Planning Division team at the City of Madison, WI, as a GIS Specialist! Working with this phenomenal team of people, we're always engaged in creative and meaningful projects that make a difference in people's lives.
www.governmentjobs.com/careers/madi...
www.governmentjobs.com/careers/madi...
GIS Specialist 1
The City of Madison Planning Division is hiring a Geographic Information System (GIS) Specialist 1Are you interested in supporting efforts to improve GIS data and mapping that help inform decision mak...
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May 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Join the Planning Division team at the City of Madison, WI, as a GIS Specialist! Working with this phenomenal team of people, we're always engaged in creative and meaningful projects that make a difference in people's lives.
www.governmentjobs.com/careers/madi...
www.governmentjobs.com/careers/madi...
This is why we don't approve painting historic brick buildings: it destroys their structural integrity. This isn't preservationists being overly precious about building materials. It destroys buildings and creates maintenance nightmares: www.channel3000.com/features/aft...
After becoming fixture of Monroe Street, beloved 'Madison Mural' to come down
MADISON, Wis. — They say you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. For residents of Monroe Street, that sentiment is about to hit home as the vibrant Madison
www.channel3000.com
May 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This is why we don't approve painting historic brick buildings: it destroys their structural integrity. This isn't preservationists being overly precious about building materials. It destroys buildings and creates maintenance nightmares: www.channel3000.com/features/aft...
Please reach out to your senators to advocate for the Historic Preservation Fund. This supports the operation of the Tribal and State Historic Preservation Offices, and provides the funding for a lot of local preservation work: actionnetwork.org/letters/sena...
Advocacy Alert: Urge Your Senators to Sign-on in Support of Historic Preservation Funding!
Join me in urging Congress to support funding for historic preservation. Reach out to your Senators and ask them to sign-on to the bipartisan FY26 #HistoricPreservationFund dear colleague letter being...
actionnetwork.org
May 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Please reach out to your senators to advocate for the Historic Preservation Fund. This supports the operation of the Tribal and State Historic Preservation Offices, and provides the funding for a lot of local preservation work: actionnetwork.org/letters/sena...
Boom! This also goes for phishing scams.
April 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Boom! This also goes for phishing scams.
Started my day at the First Presbyterian Church in Racine for the Wisconsin Association of Historic Preservation Commissions meeting. Ending it on the rooftop of Hotel Verdant
April 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Started my day at the First Presbyterian Church in Racine for the Wisconsin Association of Historic Preservation Commissions meeting. Ending it on the rooftop of Hotel Verdant
An FYI that invasive bush honeysuckle has shallow roots. Often pulling by hand or a couple of good kicks when the ground is soft will get that mess out. I just rained down destruction on these pests in my woods. So satisfying.
April 6, 2025 at 9:52 PM
An FYI that invasive bush honeysuckle has shallow roots. Often pulling by hand or a couple of good kicks when the ground is soft will get that mess out. I just rained down destruction on these pests in my woods. So satisfying.
I've been honored to serve as a judge for National History Day for 20 years in 3 States. The loss of NEH funding threatens this year's program. Please consider helping.
nhd.org/en/get-invol...
nhd.org/en/get-invol...
Join Our 50 for 50 Campaign - National History Day
Invest in preparing students for a life of learning and creating confident teachers to strengthen the democracy and economy of the future
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April 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I've been honored to serve as a judge for National History Day for 20 years in 3 States. The loss of NEH funding threatens this year's program. Please consider helping.
nhd.org/en/get-invol...
nhd.org/en/get-invol...
It's been steady at the polls here in Madison, WI. We had a line of folks eagerly waiting to vote when we opened at 7am. Get out and vote Wisconsin!
April 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
It's been steady at the polls here in Madison, WI. We had a line of folks eagerly waiting to vote when we opened at 7am. Get out and vote Wisconsin!
And here's a meme for levity
March 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
And here's a meme for levity
Please read the full thread. The City of Madison's historic preservation program will continue to share accurate history that tells the full story of the people who have lived here.
Trump has now turned to co-opting history & heritage, as all authoritarians eventually do.
The moment of truth has arrived for US cultural & historic preservation orgs. Do they hold to their professional research & civic standards or bend to this Executive Order?
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
The moment of truth has arrived for US cultural & historic preservation orgs. Do they hold to their professional research & civic standards or bend to this Executive Order?
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
March 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Please read the full thread. The City of Madison's historic preservation program will continue to share accurate history that tells the full story of the people who have lived here.
Today I canceled all of my Amazon product subscriptions. This month of boycott showed that while Amazon is mostly more convenient, I have many options to easily get what I want and need.
March 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Today I canceled all of my Amazon product subscriptions. This month of boycott showed that while Amazon is mostly more convenient, I have many options to easily get what I want and need.
Reposted by Heather Bailey, PhD
Not “disappeared.”
Erased by frightened small-minded petty racist individuals.
Erased by frightened small-minded petty racist individuals.
Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order
Navajo Code Talkers get "DEI" label as military info disappears under Trump order
Also vanishing: The Civil War regiment from "Glory," women pilots from WWII and a Medal of Honor winner.
www.axios.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Not “disappeared.”
Erased by frightened small-minded petty racist individuals.
Erased by frightened small-minded petty racist individuals.
Reposted by Heather Bailey, PhD
You know what to do, internet! 😁😁😁
Office of @raskin.house.gov provided a letter template to officially request your federal personal data from
DOGE in accordance with the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a(d)(1) and this could be interesting jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...
DOGE in accordance with the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a(d)(1) and this could be interesting jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...
DOGE Privacy Act Requests
U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (...
jamieraskin.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
You know what to do, internet! 😁😁😁
I was in DC Monday for a meeting ahead of Preservation Advocacy Week. The input from various preservation partners was bleak. /1
March 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I was in DC Monday for a meeting ahead of Preservation Advocacy Week. The input from various preservation partners was bleak. /1
Today for self care, I got a TDAP shot. It's been 10 years since my last shot and whooping cough is going around. /1
February 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Today for self care, I got a TDAP shot. It's been 10 years since my last shot and whooping cough is going around. /1
Reposted by Heather Bailey, PhD
In the USA — Landmarks, arts, monuments, history, heritage, parks are under assault. Like the author of this letter, I believe US historic preservation orgs need to find their voice to defend these values. Silence won’t save us.
February 21, 2025 at 10:28 AM
In the USA — Landmarks, arts, monuments, history, heritage, parks are under assault. Like the author of this letter, I believe US historic preservation orgs need to find their voice to defend these values. Silence won’t save us.
Public comment is open for the move to gut #NEPA. Please submit your comments. The consequences for removing this legislation will be devastating www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Removal of National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations
This interim final rule removes the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) from the Code of Federal Regulations. In addition, this...
www.federalregister.gov
February 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Public comment is open for the move to gut #NEPA. Please submit your comments. The consequences for removing this legislation will be devastating www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
If you haven't added all the Alts and Rogues, this is a good list to start from
A rare moment of good in this week's news.
When gov works with the people instead of against them, great things can be done. Thank you all for your support. Together is how we get through this. 🫶
When gov works with the people instead of against them, great things can be done. Thank you all for your support. Together is how we get through this. 🫶
#AltGov: the secret network of federal workers resisting Doge from the inside
Government employees fight the Trump administration’s chaos by organizing and publishing information on Bluesky
www.theguardian.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
If you haven't added all the Alts and Rogues, this is a good list to start from