Poster for democracy showing the hand and torch of the Statue of Liberty with text that says "Democracy...a challenge". Chicago : Illinois WPA Art Project, [between 1936 and 1940]

WPA poster, late 1930s
www.loc.gov/item/98518254/

The man's name was Joseph Barnes. Here's the request for a copy of his freedom papers from the St. Mary's County, Maryland, Register of Wills, 1806-1852, which the amazing Maryland State Archives has digitized and made available online. #slaveryarchive

Definitely better to trust the nepo baby.

Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...

Say it often, say it loud:

"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

The Women Who Tried to Prevent the Trail of Tears - JSTOR Daily In the 1830s, American women, including Catherine Beecher, worked to fight Andrew Jackson’s genocidal Indian Removal campaign.

For more on Anglo women fighting Indian Removal in the 1930s alongside Christian missionaries who though it would make their goal more difficult, see daily.jstor.org/the-women-wh...
#HATM.

Catherine Beecher led a women's letter writing campaign to stop Indian Removal under Jackson. They got very close to blocking the bill that funded it, but the 3/5 compromise gave the South enough extra power to pass it. #HATM
For the letter campaign see: teachingamericanhistory.org/document/cir...

According to historian Woody Holton, 5/6 of all federal expenditures from 1790 to 1796 were devoted to engaging in military conflict with Native nations on the western edges of the expanding United States.

World War II pro-American propaganda.

Dems should vow to impeach Bove and any nominee who did not testify truthfully under oath

Through a glass cabinet door, background of bowls decorated with silting ships, and foreground a white china coffee cup on small plate, with "First Blow" and "Gaspee" visible in gold.

Always going to stop for a display of commemorative china. This at the Rhode Island Historical Society's John Brown House Museum. In the "butler's pantry," for the Gaspee. "First blow for freedom" eg the American Revolution.

I Must Leave The FBI At Once To Solve The Epstein Conspiracy! What good is being in a position of power when you could be podcasting?

Get Dan Bongino out of the FBI and into the podcast studio at once! @petridishes.bsky.social’s latest:

A tangled mess of political parties, as the Whigs disappear & Republican Party emerges.

The 1850s tho

I analyzed more than 100 extremist manifestos: Misogyny was the common thread Gender identity–driven violence is the most common ideological theme across ‘lone-actor’ extremist manifestos in a recent study.

An analysis of how misogyny is the “gateway hate” to extremist violence

theconversation.com/i-analyzed-m...

Today President Trump said that birthright citizenship just "had to do with the babies of slaves." That is plainly wrong.
Historian Martha Jones & the Brennan Center's Historians Council member Kate Masur explain that the history says otherwise here: www.brennancenter.org/media/14006/...

Abraham Lincoln Wasn't Born an Abolitionist, He Became One We live in polarized times when freedom is threatened but this Juneteenth we should remind ourselves that we have overcome far worse

Precisely because Lincoln had come around to the idea of immediate, uncompensated abolition and Black rights during the war, his historical legacy would be inextricably bound with the African American struggle for freedom and with the movement to abolish slavery.

@profmsinha.bsky.social

Episode 2: Turning Points Historian Jennifer M. Murray discusses whether she views Antietam or Gettysburg as the more significant turning point in the U.S. Civil War.

In the latest episode of our podcast "Civil War Curious," historian Jennifer M. Murray weighs in on whether Antietam or Gettysburg was the bigger turning point in the war. Sponsored by our friends at @Battlefields Listen here: bit.ly/45Y1Yte

President Truman sat in the Oval Office with women from the armed forces standing behind him. Everybody appears to be white.

#OnThisDay, 12 Jun 1948, the Womens Armed Services Integration Act is signed by US President Truman, allowing women to serve in the military outside wartime.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory

James Hamlet, of New York, September 1850, was the first victim. He was surrendered by United States Commissioner Gardiner to the agent of one Mary Brown, of Baltimore, who claimed him as her slave. He was taken to Baltimore. An effort was immediately made to purchase his freedom, and in the existing state of the public feeling, the sum demanded by his mistress, $800, was quickly raised. Hamlet was brought back to New York with great rejoicings.

A brief account of the first case brought under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, from Samuel May, The Fugitive Slave Law And Its Victims (1856), 7. #slaveryarchive
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Who Invented Memorial Day? As Americans enjoy the holiday weekend, does anyone know how Memorial Day originated?

Just a reminder that enslaved people invented Memorial Day in the aftermath of the Civil War. I wrote about this history and it’s published in TIME MAGAZINE. time.com/3894406/who-...

The Tangled Roots of Memorial Day and Why It’s Celebrated

Memorial Day weekend is among the busiest for travel in the U.S. and the unofficial start of summer. But how did Memorial Day, held on the last Monday of May in honor of America’s war dead, begin? Here is a refresher.

Slave trade database moving to Harvard — Harvard Gazette Publicly accessible digital tool compiles four decades of scholarship on more than 30,000 voyages and 200,000 people.

Yay!

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

(Bloomberg) - Insiders including Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle Corp.’s Safra Catz and JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon cashed out shares worth billions of dollars before President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements roiled markets.

@bloomberg.com
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In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Historian here traitors are always trying to kill our republic. On this day Abraham Lincoln was murdered by a Confederate assassin. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

Objections flow in on NCAA settlement over 'unnecessarily harsh' impact of roster limits Most objections posted so far to the lawsuit settlement set to alter the college-sports model concerned the impact roster limits will have.

Most objections posted so far to the lawsuit settlement set to alter the college-sports model concerned the impact roster limits will have on players in so-called “Olympic sports." https://www.wishtv.com/news/objections-flow-in-on-ncaa-settlement-over-unnecessarily-harsh-impact-of-roster-limits/ 

SC lawmakers taking steps to further protect Confederate monuments with penalties and context controls SC lawmakers have filed bills to expand the Heritage Act protecting Confederate monuments. The expansion would provide financial penalties and context rules.

"South Carolina lawmakers want to strengthen the state’s Heritage Act, which establishes protections for Confederate and other monuments by prohibiting local officials from adding plaques that put controversial statues in modern context." www.postandcourier.com/politics/sta...

Four smiling women aviators from the Women Airforce Service Pilots in front of an aircraft

No amount of “404 Not Found” will wipe their bravery and achievement off the record. They were the Women Airforce Service Pilots and they will not be forgotten.