Teaching History Conference

To all teachers (not just history and social studies): We see you and the important work you do, always, but especially these last several semesters. We’re sending you hugs and wishing you all the delights! From us to you:

Fannie Lou Hamer and the Fight for Voting Rights | Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian American Women's History Museum Smithsonian Magazine womenshistory.si.edu/blog/fannie-lo…

Did y'all know that @UNC_Press is publishing a second edition of Barbara Ransby's *Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement,* the definitive bio of one of the most important civil rights activists? It's got a new preface by BR and a new foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley.

Got #socialstudies to share? Proposals form at ncsocialstudies.org/2025present #nccss25

Eight decades before #ArchivesPowerAndLight, featuring the coal survey photography of Russell Lee, opened at the National Archives Building in Washington, DC, the @librarycongress hosted an exhibit called Men and Coal in 1947. The two exhibits featured many of the same photos.

Y’all should check this out. Me talking Any Given Sunday and The Great Black Hope

The posters are here! The posters are here! (And they're beautiful.) Request your FREE 4'x3' @cspan 2024 Electoral College Map poster now! Quantities are limited, so make sure to complete this form TODAY: forms.gle/fLGVybSYizEyLQ…. Limit one per teacher. #Yay #WooHoo #CSPAN

#ThisDayInHistory, the Little Rock Nine began their first full day of school, escorted by U.S. Army troops. For more on the history of desegregating American schools, see Sonya Ramsey on Process. processhistory.org/american-educa…

Educators, are you ready to learn from Erika Lee at #NCSS2024? This historian, author, and inaugural Bae Family Professor of History at Harvard University will be speaking on teaching Asian American history. ➡️ Save your spot: hubs.li/Q02PQLLY0 #aapi #history #authors

On this day in 1963, the Alabama Supreme Court upheld the contempt conviction of Mary Hamilton, a Black woman who refused to allow an Alabama district attorney to disrespect her in court. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

Teachers -- join us next Tuesday at 8 p.m. EST (note the time change) for this important discussion on Historical Empathy. bit.ly/historyhangout…

📢 ONLINE NOW 📢 Your look inside the 104th NCSS Annual Conference: hubs.li/Q02R5NSc0 #NCSS2024 #socialstudies

My historiography article on suffrage is published! #twitterstorians What's Next for Woman Suffrage? An Overview of the State of the Field - MARINO - History - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

This is a truly wonderful opportunity for PhD students working on Indigenous and colonial topics in the Spanish Borderlands of North America. Please share! @WhaHistory @WHAGrads @clahistorians @NAISA__

Today, the AHA published a major report with findings from the most comprehensive study of secondary US history education undertaken in the 21st century. The AHA did not find indoctrination, politicization, or classroom malpractice. (1/10) historians.org/teaching-learn…

#OnThisDay in 1609 Philip III orders the deportation of the #Moriscos from Spain. The expulsion of more than 300,000 Muslim converts to Christianity was a brutal attempt to create a homogenous state. 🔓 This archive article is free to read for 7 days buff.ly/4d7ZsAQ

US history teachers: How do you teach about Bacon's Rebellion? Just started @mays_kyle's book and already offering important new perspectives of the event. Long taught as an interracial class struggle, often missed for Native subjugation and dispossession. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676294/a…

HyperDoc for the 2024 Election with CA Props and other info. Take and remix as needed. Inspired by @kellyihilton & @kajobrien's 2020 hyperdoc. docs.google.com/document/d/1EV…

On his early travels across the world, #geology struck #CharlesDarwin’s interest, not biology. ⌛ Last chance to read this 2023 archive article for free buff.ly/3Z9B5PF

“The school began as the Cherokee Orphan Asylum in 1871. It was operated as an Indian boarding school for much of the 20th century until the tribe acquired it 1985.”