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Trygve Throntveit @throntv

Citizen scholar & civic impresario. Dir Strategic Partnership @humanities. Global Fellow @TheWilsonCenter. Pragmatist, democrat, internationalist, dad.

Joined April 2017
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I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here: p2a.co/Qoo5Vpo
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Oh yeah...the link! lptv.org/traveling-exhibit-w…

Traveling Exhibit "We Are Water MN" Opens in Pine River - Lakeland PBS

We Are Water MN is the newest exhibit to open at Happy Dancing Turtle in Pine River. The traveling exhibition is a project of the Minnesota Humanities Center and is intended to engage Minnesotans...

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Trygve Throntveit@throntv
10 May 2023
This was fun! Tiny but mighty Pine River MN and @happydturtle put on an incredible #WeAreWaterMN exhibit opening-and thx to @LakelandPBS it's documented for posterity! Proud to represent @humanities and partners @MnPCA @MNagriculture @mndnr @mnhealth @MNBWSR @mnhs @UMNExt
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Trygve Throntveit@throntv
10 May 2023
This was fun! Tiny but mighty Pine River MN and @happydturtle put on an incredible #WeAreWaterMN exhibit opening-and thx to @LakelandPBS it's documented for posterity! Proud to represent @humanities and partners @MnPCA @MNagriculture @mndnr @mnhealth @MNBWSR @mnhs @UMNExt
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Even on a rainy day, kids and families love a good story! So happy @humanities could help our neighbors celebrate #ChildrensBooks: mnhum.org/event/childrens-bo…
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For more on @humanities and civics--incl our #ThirdWayCivics initiative for undergraduate civic learning--see mnhum.org/third-way-civics-e… and mnhum.org.

Third Way Civics: Educating Undergraduates for American Democracy - Minnesota Humanities Center

Third Way Civics: Educating Undergraduates for American Democracy by Trygve Throntveit.

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Trygve Throntveit@throntv
6 May 2023
Thks @WCCO @heatherbrown21 and @AJHilton_News for speaking with me about challenges and opportunities for history and civic learning: cbsnews.com/minnesota/video/…
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Thks @WCCO @heatherbrown21 and @AJHilton_News for speaking with me about challenges and opportunities for history and civic learning: cbsnews.com/minnesota/video/…

Nat'l report card on history and civics learning is worst ever

Groups like the Minnesota Humanities Center are working to reverse those education losses, explains Trygve Throntveit, director of strategic partnerships.

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So proud to be involved in this work, which draws in part on the #ThirdWayCivics initiative of @humanities!
Center for Economic and Civic Learning@BallStateCECL
23 Apr 2023
Grant worth more than $1.3 million to revitalize civics education in Muncie Community Schools and beyond ballstatedaily.com/article/2… #MCS-BSU-CREATE
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Do you care about #history, #literature, #civics, #poetry, #jurisprudence, #localculture, #culturalheritage, #language, or any of the ways humans understand each other and themselves? Ask your Representatives and Senators to fund the @NEHgov at at least $211 million.
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Great to be part of this @MNSUMankato / @humanities / @MNMilMuseum project bringing the legacies of 9/11 to life through personal stories: mnhum.org/event/the-legacy-o…
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Just got my copy of The Green New Deal and the Future of Work, out now from Columbia UP, incl. my essay w/ Harry Boyte on "Rethinking the Green New Deal: From War to Work": cup.columbia.edu/book/the-gr… via @ColumbiaUP. Thx @craigjcalhoun and Ben Fong @ASU

The Green New Deal and the Future of Work | Columbia University Press

Catastrophic climate change overshadows the present and the future. Wrenching economic transformations have devastated workers and hollowed out communities. ... | CUP

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Excited to attend this year's CENTRAL HONORS PHILANDO event in St. Paul on Sun, Aug 21! Help us celebrate Philando Castile's life and support some of St. Paul Central High's most resilient young scholars: centralhonorsphilando.org/

HOME | philandoscholars

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A provocative argument deserving a fair hearing as well as critical scrutiny: It’s Time for Universal Voting prospect.org/politics/its-ti…

It’s Time for Universal Voting - The American Prospect

Requiring every citizen to vote would make our elections more inclusive and our democracy more legitimate.

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The Streit Council@StreitCouncil
27 Jun 2022
Catch @TheWilsonCenter webinar “Past, Present, and Future of International Organization” today at 1:30–3:00pm EST. Moderated by @throntv, @tizistella and @CampbellCraig1 will discuss history and its challenges to trends in international organization. RSVP: ow.ly/R6hX50JHzBY
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Campbell Craig@CampbellCraig1
28 Jun 2022
In which @tizistella, @throntv and I get into it on the failure of substantial forms of international organisation in the 20th century. Spoiler alert: the stakes of another failure are now higher. wilsoncenter.org/event/past-…
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Climate change; global pandemic; a war of aggression by a nuclear power; can an int'l system founded on national sovereignty ever cope? Join me, @tizistella, & @CampbellCraig1 to explore the history of int'l org and lessons for today: wilsoncenter.org/event/past-…
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Thanks to @KetteringFdn for the opportunity to learn from and share with their network of democracy scholars, and for publishing these brief reflections: kettering.org/blogs/jamesian…
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On behalf of @humanities, @BallState, @seuniversity, and MN partners @MNSUMankato, @winonastateu, @MnNorthCollege, @MetroStateU, @NorthCentral_MN, I'm thrilled & grateful to announce Teagle Fdn's award of a 3-year grant to expand THIRD WAY CIVICS in MN! Spec thx to @Tamara__Mann
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Colleges and universities can help restore our civic fabric by starting in their own classrooms, I write with @peterlevine in @insidehighered: insidehighered.com/views/202…

Third-way civics is new model for civic education (opinion)

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Wilson Center Congressional Relations@WilsonCongress
15 Apr 2021
Wilson's Presidency 100 years later: "No US president has so clearly articulated both a vision and justification of the hard, courageous, yet ultimately humble work that the world’s most powerful nation must undertake." - @throntv Read more⤵️ wilsoncenter.org/publication…
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