Launch day for Yale and Slavery: revelatory investigation of Yale’s ties to slavery and slave trade. Model study, impressive initiatives in response to findings, exceptional resources for Ts & Ss! Book available online for free #sschat #teachhardhistories news.yale.edu/2024/02/16/why…

Outstanding resources, still relevant, for framing inquiry and discussion. #hardhistory #sschat

.Vice President Kamala Harris in Tennessee: “We will not throw up our hands when it is time to roll up our sleeves! We will fight! “

A5 Such a rich resource: wams.nyhistory.org

Jacob Lawrence, Vote!
(From the Migration Series)

Teachers -- and how they are 'Teaching Race and Slavery' in this fraught time -- were focus of phenomenal conference GLC at Yale thanks to David W. Blight GLC staff & all-star line up of scholars, educators, activists! Recordings of ALL sessions here: youtube.com/channel/UCGBbf…

Mind blowing project by HS art historian: An entire season of an original podcast,'The Big Picture.' Each episode explores a masterpiece of modern art and its connections to music: broadway to boogie-woogie. Listen! #bestarthistorypodcast #whyilovepbl anchor.fm/tybeefeiler

Twitterstorians #sschat #iCivics peeps: who's using political docu-series 'Power Trip' in class? Follows young journalists embedded with key campaigns. On-the-ground, real-time look at media, candidates, voters as each tries to control the narrative. youtube.com/watch?v=cQq1GE…

'We are endangered not because of our numbers but because of our numbness....' Amanda Gorman, UN, SDG Moment 2022
youtube.com/watch?v=ol6Nmb…

Win-win for students, teachers, and interns. This is model project-based-learning in creative labs, collaboratively produced, team-taught.

Teachers: if given the platform, what would you say are your greatest challenges, fears, or thrills in teaching American history today? On Nov. 4-5 we are sponsoring a big conference at Yale, 'Teaching Race and Slavery in the American Classroom.' Live-streamed. Stay tuned.

The #J6Hearings are a masterclass in supporting analysis with evidence. Note
how members segue from presentation to clips from witnesses. #HATH

Grateful for members of Congress who actually know history. #jamieraskin #January6thCommitteeHearings

Brilliant story by Jessica Cheung - talented young journalist audio producer for The Daily & gracious guest speaker to my classes! Shines a light on racial tensions at Lowell High School, shares personal story as Lowell alum, first gen Chinese immigrant. nytimes.com/2022/06/24/pod…

If you want to keep up with the J6 Hearings AND gain deeper insights,
scholars of American History will be tweeting during each session. Follow them w/ #HATH (Historians At The Hearings).
Among them Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) Kevin M. Kruse Dr. Joanne Freeman (@jbf1755 on lots o’ platforms) and many more!

My rockstar sister Diana Kapp is on a mission to change the world one story at a time.

Her story is as inspiring as the ones she tells in her book #GirlsWhoGreentheWorld

localnewsmatters.org/2022/05/26/the…

Earth Day messages from Diana Kapp that your Ss will want to hear. Tell them we all have agency, little things add up, 'sharing is cool', and 'cutting even one burger from their diet each week would be like taking 10 million cars off the road for a year. lithub.com/meeting-climat…

Please share this quote from my father through #MLKDay2022 :

“I think the tragedy is that we have a Congress with a Senate that has a minority of misguided senators who will use the filibuster to keep the majority of people from even voting.”

Leader McConnell Kyrsten Sinema

Another gift from our nation's greatest treasure, Amanda Gorman. 'We are not me--/We are we.' #weareallconnected newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…

“You don’t need to be a politician to make it your mission to conserve, to protect, to preserve...an environmental movement of this size is just another earthrise” --Amanda Gorman #changemakers youtube.com/watch?v=xwOvBv…