Mr. Finholm

Herbert Hoover was not an apolitical technocrat; that's a hustle (you don't want to fall for a hustle, do you)

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erauchway.github.io/posts/hoover...

❤️ win-win, too: for you and for students.

Rare ‘medieval’ artifacts found in B.C. thrift store donated to SFU for study Rare artifacts dating back potentially thousands of years have been found in a British Columbia thrift store and donated to Simon Fraser University for study.

I cannot imagine what it would be like to find 13 rare medieval and Roman artifacts at a charity thrift store in Chilliwack, BC, but I'm glad they were donated to Simon Fraser University for further study: www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stor...

This is what wargaming is for. Really excellent piece.

YouTube video by Netflix Death by Lightning | Official Trailer | Netflix

hell to the YEAH

38th CCSS Annual Conference Presentation Proposal Diving Deep: The Confluence of Place, Identity, and Belonging March 2, 2026 at History Colorado in Denver, CO The Colorado Council for the Social Studies invites submissions for the 38th Annual Conf...

Feeling inspired to present at our state Social Studies Conference on Monday, March 2nd, 2026 at History Colorado? www.coloradocouncilforthesocialstudies.org/events-1

See the link below in order to submit a proposal, due Oct. 29th!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Every Green Book site tells a story of surviving Jim Crow. From barbershops to restaurants to hotels to gas stations, these places made travel safer. Add your memories to the Community Map to create collective history:
greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu

#GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

Calling for proposals!

We're excited to announce the 38th Annual Colorado Council for the Social Studies Conference on Monday, March 2nd, 2026 at History Colorado.

Thinking about presenting? Click the link to learn more: www.coloradocouncilforthesocialstudies.org/events-1 Deadline: 10/29/25

One-day Seminar - The American Founding - Parker, CO - Teaching American History The seminar offers an overview of the principles of the American Founding and the documents that embody them, especially the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution. These principles will be...

It's back to school, educators! Looking for some supportive PD?

How about some professional development on American Founding? Check out this Teaching American History PD in Parker this Fall, 10/06: teachingamericanhistory.org/seminar/the-...

One-day Seminar - Executive Power and the Constitution - Sterling, CO - Teaching American History Explore the constitutional powers, legal authority, and evolution of the ‘soft power’ of the president from the Founding into the modern age. Participants will read and discuss documents that help exp...

It's back to school, educators! Looking for some supportive PD?

How about professional development on Executive Power & The Constitution here in Colorado? Check out this Teaching American History PD in Sterling this Fall, 9/29: teachingamericanhistory.org/seminar/the-...

38th CCSS Annual Conference Presentation Proposal Diving Deep: The Confluence of Place, Identity, and Belonging March 2, 2026 at History Colorado in Denver, CO The Colorado Council for the Social Studies invites submissions for the 38th Annual Conf...

It's the first day of Fall! 🍂🍁

Have you thought about presenting at CCSS in March?

We're excited to announce the 38th Annual Colorado Council for the Social Studies Conference on Monday, March 2nd, 2026.

See the link below to submit a proposal, due Oct. 29th!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Save the Date!

Colorado Council for the Social Studies 38th Annual Conference is Monday, March 2nd, 2026!

Our keynote speaker is Tara Roberts!

If you'd like to submit a proposal to present, click here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

My “America at 250” class—taught with David Blight and Beverly Gage — can be found here.

New lectures and podcasts put up every week.

m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I've read a lot of runaway ads but nothing quite like this one.

Does your teaching touch upon the Black Death? Then don't miss the one and only Dr. Monica Green's open-access, introductory teaching module for the History for the 21st Century (H21) project! www.history21.com/owit-module/... #earlymodern #histmed #medhumanities #medieval #worldhistory

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: #Slaveryarchive book club: Transatlantic Bondage edited by Lissette Acosta Corniel. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining t... Join us to discuss Transatlantic Bondage (SUNY Press, 2024) edited by Lissette Acosta Corniel. Get the book here https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/Transatlantic-Bondage2 A deeply researched, pathbreakin...

And we're back! Join us this Sat., Aug. 23, 2PM EST for our first #slaveryarchive gathering of the Fall. This week we host la muy dura Lissette Acosta and the editorial team of _Transatlantic Bondage: Slavery and Freedom in Spain 🇪🇸, Sto. Dgo. 🇩🇴, and Puerto Rico 🇵🇷. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

60 years ago today:

A day after LBJ signed the Voting Rights Act into law, the Justice Department begins enforcement by suspending literacy tests in 7 states and parts of 2 others.

DOJ also files a suit to have the poll tax invalidated in Mississippi.

(All this on a Saturday, no less.)

a real Chicago Manual of Style fan speaks ill of The Associated Press Stylebook

oxford comma supremacy

Hi, it’s me, the reviewer who always recommends using the Oxford comma.

Inside Colorado’s famous resort for Black Americans Colorado was once a beacon for members of the Harlem Renaissance and Black families from all over the country.

Black families from all over the country flocked to Colorado’s Lincoln Hills during Jim Crow, a safe place for them to gather and relax

Figures like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, W.E.B DuBois & more would hold literary salons there during visits

One of the dumbest times I went viral on Twitter was for a thread about this and there were creepy people in my mentions for days. So: fun fact, the average age of a bride on her first marriage in 18th-century England was 26.

JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked the cancelation of $175 million in National Endowment for the Humanities grants, mass terminated by DOGE in April. She says the effort was transparent viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment.

As someone who grew up in Flanders Fields, I can concur. We would still find ammunition in our vegetable garden every single year, a century after the war

template for reflecting on three paths of development as a teacher for yourself going forward

Thinking ahead to the upcoming school year, I want all of my reflecting/planning to start with this document once again:

1⃣ what will my "new" be as a teacher?
2⃣ what do I want to get "better" at?
3⃣ what is a "strength" I want to double-down on?

From Smithsonian description: "This ambitious chart presents U.S. political history on a single page. Moving from left to right, a timeline of parties, policies, persons, and events courses like a river through graphic space marked in four-year intervals. The analogy between politics and springs and rivulets (that jump and rejoin their banks) is the most conspicuous feature of the timeline. The parties appear in different colors. The ascendance of a party is gauged as its stream rises above the centerline, and above the streams of other parties. The thickness of a stream indicates the party’s strength. The diagram is meant to dramatize U.S. political history in a more accessible shape for educators and to offer a ready reference for scholars, statisticians, and statesmen. The chart itself, titled “Diagram of the Rise and Fall of American Political Parties, from 1789 to 1880, inclusive,” is from the Conspectus of the History of Political Parties and the Federal Government, by Walter R. Houghton, 1880"

Absolutely incredible graphic from 1880 tracing the history of political parties in the United States.

Here. This managed to ignite my utter loathing of tech bros enough for me to write this.

othermeans.io/p/get-your-f...

Reach out to folks in your circles about what their first 1-2 weeks look like—you'll probably find folks happy to walk you through what they do and why!

My first day lesson here, btw: docs.google.com/presentation...

A C-SPAN2 television still showing Eric Rauchway, University of California, Davis, History Professor, talking and making hand gestures so rapidly the camera cannot accurately record them.

If you already read about the history of tariffs and thought, you know, this would work better with lots of rapid hand gestures 🗃️

erauchway.github.io/posts/aha_ta...

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?

Many historians are quite bad at remembering historical dates