Amy J. Rutenberg

When did all women get the vote to vote?

One of the q's on the new citizenship test is incorrect. 1920 is not when "all women" got the right to vote. The 19th A prohibited sex-based disenfranchisement, but didn't guarantee voting. Many women, esp. women of color, remained disenfranchised. #WeTheMen
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A giant gummy worm (with ridges) taking up an entire cutting board. Half is red and half is blue.

Because there is not enough gross, weird, or funny on this app, here is what a two-pound gummy worm looks like - just in case anyone is interested 🤢

For those wondering what the law says about changing the design of the White House. Warning: History incoming. 🗃️

Ames, Iowa: The middle of the middle. #NoKings

100% true, but thoughtful deaccessioning is not what’s happening.

This should be required reading in every historical methods and social studies classroom. Something very important is being lost. 🗃️🗺️

This is a really amazing opportunity for grad students and early career scholars. You do teach military history, even if it’s not your field #milhist #academicsky 🗃️

Haven’t listened to the referenced podcast, but yep, this 🧵 is spot on. Recruiting standards move because they have to, push and pull. And they cannot be extricated from social values. I wrote a whole book on it. #civmil #milhist a.co/d/ftzprwH

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If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)?

Hoover
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Ford
Carter

And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

I can’t yet parse the details, but when my students student teach, they are fingerprinted and background checked. Dr. Robert’s certainly was, esp since Iowa issued him a superintendent’s license (a requirement of the job).

Hegseth terminates women’s advisory group, slams ‘divisive agenda’ A Sept. 17 memo signed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directs the “formal disestablishment” of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services.

Hegseth killed DACOWITS, a DOD institution since 1951. Since the 2010s, it’s focused on things like sexual assault prevention and women’s health. This move brings new meaning to the word “lethality,” unfortunately. #civmil www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...

The pres saying that women should avoid Tylenol feels like another way that men are diminishing women and their pain.

And yes, all of the same was true when a sitting democratic lawmaker was murdered in her home, except there were crickets from all the pundits and no one was fired for anything they said. We’re in a bad place, folks. A very bad place.

After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.

There is nothing about any of this that isn’t despicable - from Kirk’s murder, to how and why it happened, to celebration of political violence, to the utter hypocrisy of this response. Free speech be damned. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

‘Radicalized’ Evergreen High School shooter appeared to hold antisemitic, violent views in online accounts Armed with a revolver, the 16-year-old shooter systematically reloaded and fired as he wandered the school, trying to find new targets, police say.

We don't yet have any idea what the ideology of the Kirk shooter was.

But we do know that the Denver school shooter was a far-right white supremacist.

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But if we use the exact same factors in things like hiring or college admissions decisions, It’s “woke DEI,” discriminatory, and illegal. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Common theme of people I've interviewed recently. At universities, in research centers, in diplomacy, in the legal system, dealing with refugees or immigrants:

The reality inside is much worse than you would think from the outside.

Shameless self-promotion and all of that, but it is genuinely unsettling to see how some of the most cartoonish ideas that I came across while writing the book have turned into actual policy.

Uncertain Warriors Cambridge Core - Military History - Uncertain Warriors

The seeds that are currently bearing fruit in a Department of War focused on “maximum lethality” rather than “tepid legality” were planted in 1990s. Time for more folks to read David Fitzgerald’s excellent Uncertain Warriors #milhist #civmil www.cambridge.org/core/books/u...

a man is playing a game of frog dog at a carnival Alt: a man playing Whac-A-Mole

Live footage of historians these days

In case anyone’s wondering, the DOD website now redirects to war.gov and the “narcoterrorists neutralized” was a US bombing of a ship in likely violation of international law.

History Lessons Audiobook on Libro.fm A college history professor must solve her superstar colleague’s murder before she becomes the next target in this funny, romantic debut mystery, perfect for readers of Janet Evanovich, Kellye Garrett...

I’m on chapter 3. I’ve laughed out loud more than once (which maybe is weird for a murder mystery, but 🤷🏻‍♀️). Academic friends, a funny book written by one of our own - and a pretty awesome, smart person. 🗃️ #AcademicSky libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Awesome thread 🗺️

Or simply not teach in Oklahoma - which definitely feels like it will be good for public schools in Oklahoma 🙄

This whole thread is exhausting. The questions vary between insulting to teachers’ professionalism, trivial, and irrelevant (but requiring a particular set of beliefs). Nothing about actual teacher qualification.

Wanna write about it for us? Or simply share the activity? We’d love to publish it!

I’m already using a version of @drmendozan.bsky.social’s awesome activity in a class this semester (editor’s privilege 😆). Everyone should read this. And then pitch me! Teachingmilitaryhistory.com is a broad tent. We want to share your awesome activities, including grade 6-12 teachers! 🗺️🗃️

As everyone knows, “True warfighters instilled with the warfighting ethos, however, know that a warfighting ethos is only at its warfighting ethos-iest when warfighters are fighting a war on boredom. And here among the embattled mulch beds of D.C., cousin, boredom is ah-boomin.”