WPA poster, late 1930s www.loc.gov/item/98518254/

The man's name was Joseph Barnes. Here's the request for a copy of his freedom papers from the St. Mary's County, Maryland, Register of Wills, 1806-1852, which the amazing Maryland State Archives has digitized and made available online. #slaveryarchive

Say it often, say it loud: "Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

For more on Anglo women fighting Indian Removal in the 1930s alongside Christian missionaries who though it would make their goal more difficult, see daily.jstor.org/the-women-wh... #HATM.

Catherine Beecher led a women's letter writing campaign to stop Indian Removal under Jackson. They got very close to blocking the bill that funded it, but the 3/5 compromise gave the South enough extra power to pass it. #HATM For the letter campaign see: teachingamericanhistory.org/document/cir...

According to historian Woody Holton, 5/6 of all federal expenditures from 1790 to 1796 were devoted to engaging in military conflict with Native nations on the western edges of the expanding United States.

World War II pro-American propaganda.

Dems should vow to impeach Bove and any nominee who did not testify truthfully under oath

Always going to stop for a display of commemorative china. This at the Rhode Island Historical Society's John Brown House Museum. In the "butler's pantry," for the Gaspee. "First blow for freedom" eg the American Revolution.

Get Dan Bongino out of the FBI and into the podcast studio at once! @petridishes.bsky.social’s latest:

The 1850s tho

An analysis of how misogyny is the “gateway hate” to extremist violence theconversation.com/i-analyzed-m...

Today President Trump said that birthright citizenship just "had to do with the babies of slaves." That is plainly wrong. Historian Martha Jones & the Brennan Center's Historians Council member Kate Masur explain that the history says otherwise here: www.brennancenter.org/media/14006/...

Precisely because Lincoln had come around to the idea of immediate, uncompensated abolition and Black rights during the war, his historical legacy would be inextricably bound with the African American struggle for freedom and with the movement to abolish slavery. @profmsinha.bsky.social

In the latest episode of our podcast "Civil War Curious," historian Jennifer M. Murray weighs in on whether Antietam or Gettysburg was the bigger turning point in the war. Sponsored by our friends at @Battlefields Listen here: bit.ly/45Y1Yte

#OnThisDay, 12 Jun 1948, the Womens Armed Services Integration Act is signed by US President Truman, allowing women to serve in the military outside wartime. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory

A brief account of the first case brought under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, from Samuel May, The Fugitive Slave Law And Its Victims (1856), 7. #slaveryarchive archive.org/details/fugi...

Just a reminder that enslaved people invented Memorial Day in the aftermath of the Civil War. I wrote about this history and it’s published in TIME MAGAZINE. time.com/3894406/who-...

Memorial Day weekend is among the busiest for travel in the U.S. and the unofficial start of summer. But how did Memorial Day, held on the last Monday of May in honor of America’s war dead, begin? Here is a refresher.

Yay! news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

(Bloomberg) - Insiders including Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle Corp.’s Safra Catz and JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon cashed out shares worth billions of dollars before President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements roiled markets. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Historian here traitors are always trying to kill our republic. On this day Abraham Lincoln was murdered by a Confederate assassin. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

Most objections posted so far to the lawsuit settlement set to alter the college-sports model concerned the impact roster limits will have on players in so-called “Olympic sports." https://www.wishtv.com/news/objections-flow-in-on-ncaa-settlement-over-unnecessarily-harsh-impact-of-roster-limits/ 

"South Carolina lawmakers want to strengthen the state’s Heritage Act, which establishes protections for Confederate and other monuments by prohibiting local officials from adding plaques that put controversial statues in modern context." www.postandcourier.com/politics/sta...

No amount of “404 Not Found” will wipe their bravery and achievement off the record. They were the Women Airforce Service Pilots and they will not be forgotten.

Coming August 6, 2025, only five months from now, our children’s book, *Fearless Benjamin: The Quaker Dwarf who Fought Slavery*, co-written with Michelle Markel and illustrated by Sarah Bachman, is now available for pre-order @pmpress.bsky.social. pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

The Pentagon has turned Medal of Honor recipient, Sgt. William Carney, who served in the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, into a 404-Error. 🗃️ taskandpurpose.com/news/soldier...

Jackie Robinson has been restored!!! 😊💙 Huge win for our democracy!!! 💙 Keep up the noise!!! 🤗💙 #Thisiswhywefight #Bluecrew #Resistance #Resist www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/u-s...

If you actually wanted to make America "great" "again" you'd shoot the Nazis and Confederates instead of putting them in charge.

These people are Americans This is American history Americans need to defend what this word actually means before it is forever poisoned You erase history to change the future. Too often to erode the sense of what is right and wrong www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Historians discuss Sundown Towns and their impact on Black Americans www.wdbj7.com/2025/02/26/h...

Hundreds of PreK-12 teaching & learning resources that support developmentally appropriate skill-building & leverage both well-known & lesser-known stories in U.S. history, art, culture, & science are freely available online for use in the classroom & at home www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smiths...

Online Museum of African Americans proudly announces its official launch, offering a virtual space dedicated to preserving and celebrating the contributions of Blacks and their medical professionals, from ancient African healers to modern-day pioneers. www.8newsnow.com/business/pre... #BlackInSTEM

‘Spider’ Martin’s newly restored photos that documented firsthand the violence on 7 March 1965 are on view at Alabama exhibit 'Selma Is Now' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #selmaat60 #BloodySundayat60

#OnTheDay, 6 Mar 1906, Nora Stanton Blatch was admitted to the American Association of Civil Engineers. The first woman, she was allowed junior status but still denied full membership. #WomenInSTEM #WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #History #AmericanHistory 🗃️

#OTD March 2, 1712, the Salem Town Church voted to rescind the excommunication of Rebecca Nurse and Giles Cory. See the whole document in the First Church of Salem Record Book, 1629-1736, @congrelib.bsky.social tinyurl.com/46wakssw

Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual. cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

27 February 1896 | A Pole, Kazimierz Rawicz, was born in Błażowa. Lieutenant Colonel of the Polish Army. In #Auschwitz from 10 January 1941. No. 9319 Co-founder of the camp resistance. In July 1942, he was transferred to KL Mauthausen. He survived.

World History Teachers Blog: A Global Guide to WWI. bit.ly/4bbVA2m #sschat #edusky

From Henry Ford to the esteemed, path-blazing New York Times foreign correspondent Anne O’Hare McCormick, expressions of fascist sympathy had reached the center of mainstream discourse and American political thought by the late 1930s.

19 Black trailblazers that may not have been in your history book fox56news.com/honoring-bla... #tellemwhatwedid ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #BlackHistoryMonth

There are already impacts on all of us since Trump closed USAID. This soy research lab is just one of many bad consequences for America.