Kate Chase, the phantom of Spring Grove Cemetery

YouTube video by VanTidesDIY Heather Cox Richardson Speech - 250 Year Lantern Anniversary - Old North Church

If you'd like to see and hear @hcrichardson.bsky.social deliver her blow-by-blow account of the lighting of the lamps in the Old North Church – where she gave this address – and the Ride of Paul Revere 250 years ago, someone did us the service of recording it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv5l...

7 Influential Black Women Abolitionists | HISTORY These women reshaped the fight against slavery by suing for freedom, rescuing the enslaved and teaching the newly freed.

Historian here for the end of women's history month I give you my favorite black abolitionist feminists before the mad man in the White House makes it criminal to talk about them. www.history.com/articles/inf...

Gee, the truth hurts.

The Japanese were the war criminals. I suggest you read about the Rape of Nanjing and the Bataan Death March. The U.S. was right to accept no terms but unconditional surrender.

They can’t answer it. They’re also defending war criminals responsible for, among other things, the Rape of Nanjing and the Bataan Death March.

No it wasn’t. Japan would have endured an invasion to protect their emperor.

While the rest of the country is recognizing President’s Day, in Arkansas, it Daisy Lee Gaston Bates Day.Bates was a civil rights activist who helped desegregate Central High School. Her statue, along with one of Johnny Cash, represents Arkansas in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall.

The U.S. Army Helped to Make the Celebration of Juneteenth Possible. So Why Has It Been Canceled? On Tuesday Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the Defense Department’s Intelligence Agency to pause its recognition of a long list of cultural or historical annual events in response to Preside...

"The U.S. Army Helped to Make the Celebration of Juneteenth Possible. So Why Has It Been Canceled?" 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/the-us-arm...

Trump’s executive order threatens more than half a billion dollars for Arkansas energy and infrastructure projects - Arkansas Times Uncertainty abounds on clean energy and green infrastructure funding as Trump takes over.

@arktimes.bsky.social takes a deep dive into $500M worth of infrastructure and energy projects in #Arkansas - funded by the federal bipartisan infrastructure law - that are now being targeted for elimination by Donald Trump.
#arpx
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"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

Written right there in the Constitution.

The President cannot change that with the stroke of a pen.

I gave this response. I might be banned for it.

JD Vance gave this hateful response to President Biden on Twitter/X.

The American Revolution | Coming Fall 2025 | PBS The American Revolution, a landmark documentary by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt, is coming Fall 2025.

Our next film, The American Revolution, will air on
@pbs.org starting 11/16. Leading up to the broadcast, we'll have a national conversation about this important event and how it helped define us as a people - and changed the world. More info is here: www.pbs.org/kenburns/the...

🧵The debate over the failure to place a plaque honoring the agencies that defended the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 is a wonderful case study on the difference between history and memory. In 2022, Congress authorized the a plaque for the west front of the Capitol complex by March 2023. 🗃️

Eat the fucking rich already.

Mr. Lancaster's System How a con artist "reformer" shaped America's modern public schools.Two centuries ago, London school reformer Joseph Lancaster swept into New York City to revolutionize its public schools. Pennsylvania...

One thing is for sure: For the next four years we're going to hear a lot about what the Founding Fathers wanted public schools to look like.

Don't fall for it: Read the real history instead, and thanks to Johns Hopkins, you can save 40%.

Use the code: HHOL24
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Hey, @robertlincoln.bsky.social. I think I found the two horrible people pranking people with U2.

a football player wearing a jersey that says ' jacksonville ' on it ALT: a football player wearing a jersey that says ' jacksonville ' on it

I have to cheer for this team for escapism. The desperation is real.😫

a man in a brown jacket is pointing in front of a sign that says that 's true ALT: a man in a brown jacket is pointing in front of a sign that says that 's true

Sad but true.

Opinion | Down About the Election? There Is a Speech I Want You to Read. Frederick Douglass knew what to do when faced with Jim Crow.

🧵 Thanks to @jamellebouie.net for highlighting Frederick Douglass's "Lessons of the Hour." It is indeed a must read, but I would suggest that Douglass's last great speech was an address to school children a few months later on September 3, 1894. Douglass traveled... 🗃️
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/o...

At least this First Lady likes Christmas.

When the Federal Government Hunted People in the Streets of Boston Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants earned the ire of the governor of Massachusetts, where in a similar case in 1854, the city of Boston fought to protect a runaway slave.

The thought of the federal government going into cities to round up undocumented immigrants is horrifying to me, but we've been here before. Let's look to the abolitionists of the 1850s for inspiration on how to respond. 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/when-the-f...

Welcome to Bluesky, Gary! Where did you find the Lincoln quote? The country’s most misinformed podcast perhaps?🤣🤣🤣

The old #FAFO

At least the First Lady is there.

It appears that the neo-Confederate yahoo, who prompted this post, has deleted his post. Surrender appears to be their default response to pressure.

I will continue to pursue him.❤️❤️❤️

Thank you!