My Favorite Things to See (and Buy) on a Teacher’s Wishlist
bc it’s the most productive way to harness my Shopping Addiction.
Anti-Social Studies
Contextualizing the chaos one historical tangent at a time...
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Washing blueberries and pondering the collapse of the Roman Empire
... as one does.
Three lessons I learned at the Democracy Summit today
The kids are all right (well, in this case, they're mostly left.)
If the Jamestown settlers had access to TikTok, they, also, would’ve been STRESSED. OUT.
Everything, everywhere, all at once.
The five questions I ask each student on Day 1
Be prepared: it gets fairly existential.
250 years of... what?
What am I celebrating this Fourth of July?
Donald Trump is a Lazy Andrew Jackson
It's like he had someone summarize Jackson's biography for him and went, "Sure. Let's do the dumbest parts of that."
Contextualizing Iran's open Letter to the American People
Yesterday, Iran’s President published an Open Letter to the American People in an attempt to cut through the noise, misinformation and layers of censorship to share his side of this ongoing war.
Cesar Chavez, Christopher Columbus and Historical Memory
Who do we honor? And why do we honor them? And why is it ALWAYS a man?
"Is it safe to travel there?"
Welp. Not a great time to have trips lined up to Egypt, Dubai, and Jordan over the next three months...
A rant about THAT men's hockey video
From someone who grew up wanting to be Julie "The Cat" Gaffney from Mighty Ducks and is a current fan of the hockey romance genre.
Stephen Colbert, Dolores Umbridge, and why I support James Talarico
Let it be known: I have been in love with Stephen Colbert for over a decade.
The 1990s: The Decade About Nothing
It's like a case study in what U.S. leaders decide to do when they have no enemies, a booming economy and too much time on their hands...
White Supremacy is so boring.
It's many other much worse adjectives, too, of course.
White privilege and blue Nikes (with velcro)
I went to a Stop ICE rally in Austin this weekend and brought my whole family along (husband, son, mom, mother-in-law, the whole crew.) As an event “content creator” we got to be in the very front row as we listened to local, state, and national Texan leaders speak.
Get your community ready
What I've learned from a one week deep dive into rapid response and mutual aid organizing
The Viola Liuzzo Paradox
Why would a white mother from Detroit put herself in harm’s way for Black people in Selma, Alabama?
"Saving America by Saving the Family"
Excerpts and commentary from the Heritage Foundation report that every American should read.
Community Defense vs. Street Gangs
Where's the line between a grassroots organization and a dangerous group?
10 MLK Quotes that Relate to Our Struggle Today
And not the same ones you see shared on Instagram every January...
A Historian's Existential Crisis
If history is "doomed to repeat" then why am I still trying to stop it?