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I'm curious history educators, what's your course GenAI policy? Please specify the level you are teaching (high school or university). 🗺️🍎 🗃️ #sschat

Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops

Historians - Apply now for the Peggy Renner Award for Teaching and Curricular Innovation which recognizes an historian who has developed a college or university course that engages students in exploring the links between contemporary issues and the past. 🗃️ wawh.org/renner-teach...

I’ve always been an advocate & early adopter of EdTech, so my criticisms of GenAI should not be dismissed as clinging to the “good old days.” It’s time we, as educators & scholars, honestly reckon with the consequences of this technology for our students and the future of education and scholarship.

I ask them what they think the purpose of education is and why are they here?

I tell my students explicitly to NOT do this and then I explain why - full of hallucinations, stolen material, mischaracterizations.

Struggling as a teacher to keep up with changes to make sure my assignments use actual thinking/writing. Trying, but I'm tired. Not sure non-HS teachers truly get how kids are using ChatGPT for everything. EVERY.THING. As a search engine. To do questions on assignments. Almost all students/levels.

Ladies, do you like Having a credit card Going to college Wearing pants Voting Leaving a man who hits you Not worrying that divorce means leaving your kids Not being called sugar tits in the workplace THANK FEMINISM

Has the US failed women?

It’s always misogyny at the bottom. This is why we must stick together and Dems have to remain intersectional. They hate us all.

Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms. 3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers. 4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against. It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power. Story to come.

This would be an excellent time for politicians to stop demonizing universities.

What the absolute [expletive] was that?!?

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

Historians - What are your top assigned reading recommendations for a grad level 20th century US History seminar? 🗃️

"As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free," goes harder than any Civil War song has any right to go.

Reupping in light of the news that SCOTUS will review birthright citizenship conferred by 14th Amendment 🗃️

This - and I have so much gratitude for all the teachers I’ve had the opportunity to learn from both inside and outside the college system.

Let me fix that for you: Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.

I got a bit personal in #AHAPerspectives this month. On quitting grad school, co-editing a book, and still being a historian without the PhD. 🗃️

What? Women ruining things, yet again, with their insistence on equality?

Philadelphia to open LGBTQ visitors center. 🏳️‍🌈 www.metroweekly.com/2025/11/phil...

The suffragists who picketed the White House in 1917 demanding the passage of the 19th Amendment endured arrest & imprisonment for the cause. Many of them, estranged from their own families because of their commitment to the fight for democracy, relied on each other for support... #GOTV #Vote

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I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

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In this week's Gilded Age & Progressive Era podcast Boyd and I talked about my recent book, _Recasting the Vote_, and what the history of suffrage looks like from different perspectives. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed the conversation @shgape.bsky.social shows.acast.com/gildedageand...

College faculty are under pressure to say and do the right thing – the stress also trickles down to students @us.theconversation.com Lee Ann Rawlins Williams theconversation.com/college-facu...

When California required LGBTQ+ history in schools, UC Davis’s CHSSP helped build the curriculum from the ground up. These lessons combine primary sources with guidance to teach identity, belonging, and social change. @ucdavis.bsky.social #LGBTQHistoryMonth Read more:

Happy to share my piece for @theguardian.com on the mainstreaming of fascist fashion. If we want to fight this, we first need to learn to recognize (and name) its aesthetics, especially today. Check it out 🗃️https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/15/fascist-fashion-language

“Some people might say it's really important for LGBTQ+ kids to see themselves in the past,” said Rouse. “I think it's even more important for non-LGBTQ+ kids to see that LGBTQ+ people have always existed.” lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/lgbtq-histor... #sschat #EduSky #edchat 🗃️ 🏳️‍🌈

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

"While CA is leading the nation in our efforts to fight the targeting and harassment of educators, government employees, LGBTQ folks, immigrants, and Black and Brown communities, CSU capitulated without a fight to the Trump Administration’s witch hunt of faculty....

Good on MIT. Courage is contagious.

🧵🧵🧵 As for her call for non-academics to get involved: one thing you should do if you see attacks on academic freedom or administrators capitulating to Trump's extortion at your alma mater is to write the uni/college president & express your outrage. They need to hear from alumni ASAP. Template👇

Excellent thread outlining the significance of recent attacks on professors and academic freedom. I would just add that this targeted harassment and doxing has been happening for quite some time to K-12 educators caught up in the "Rainbow Panic" over the discussion of LGBTQ+ topics in schools.

Please acknowledge what is happening to American professors right now. We do not deserve this.

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...

Everything about this NYT cover kind of sums up where we are in this moment (most especially the apparently very important article on the Choco Taco).

We published 10 articles about historians' work for, with, and on the National Park Service in #AHAPerspectives this summer. You can find them all here: 🗃️

Today, we wrap up our summer #AHAPerspectives miniseries on historians' work with the National Park Service! We're finishing with an article by @hngreen.bsky.social, who shares her experiences writing an NPS historic resource study and how politics today will constrain future such work. 🗃️

Gender studies scholars and experts on domestic violence have long known that gender-based bigotry is a gateway to violent extremism. It’s time for national security officials to catch up.

I am looking to find out the names of the women in this 1980 photo with Jimmy Carter. They helped contribute to the creation of women's history week. Can anyone help me identify these women? 🗃️

Also check out the mentioned @routledgehistory.bsky.social Routledge History of Queer America and Contested Curriculum: LGBTQ History Goes to School, out now from @rutgersupress.bsky.social