My review of the book Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen – A Must-Read! #Americanhistory #bookreview #education #historicalbias #history #historytextbook #nonfiction #nonfictionbooks

https://thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2023/09/04/book-review-lies-my-teacher-told-me-by-james-w-loewen-a-must-read/

This is an excellent program, and this was an excellent experience.

https://www.post-gazette.com/life/goodness/2023/07/19/classrooms-without-borders-civil-rights-movement-american-history-black-history-selma-montgomery-freedom-riders-bloody-sunday-obama-academy-winchester-thurston/stories/202307110094

#blackmastodon #freedomRiders #bloodySunday #classroomsWithoutBorders #AmericanHistory # civil-rights

American history and libraries need an underground railroad to smuggle them south. Gay trans and mixed race Couples need an underground clergy. Women need an underground railroad to bring them to an abortion. #undergroundrailroad #americanhistory #blackhistory #Florida #abortion

This is a phenomenal a good book. I like the fact that it doesn’t pull punches on later waves of “feminists” who looked down on those that came before them as “secretaries.” History matters and these were women of steel. The sputnik chapter was especially good. LISTEN to women. #cia #history #AmericanHistory #oss #sputnik https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/55510928

#blackhistory #AmericanHistory #History #desantis #BrittleWhiteManBabies

"its depiction of an America obsessed with nostalgic retrogression, and ever open to exploitation in all its forms, seems entirely prescient": Fredric Hobbs' uncategorisable oater/bleater GODMONSTER OF INDIAN FLATS (1973) is available on Blu-ray from #101Films #Horror #Western #AmericanHistory #Idealism #Exploitation #CreatureFeature https://projectedfigures.com/2023/02/15/godmonster-of-indian-flats-1973

Important insight in American history from an African-American perspective that you and I have never really seen or heard. These lessons - brilliantly laid out and FREE IN FEBRUARY - Black History Month - are a must-see. I even think I'll have to see it twice for all the messages to sink in. DON'T MISS IT
https://learn.masterclass.com/blackhistorymonth
#BlackHistoryMonth #AmericanHistory #AntiRacism #Racism

Richard Allison: The Lord's Prayer

An Elizabethan setting from 'The Psalmes of Dauid in Meter', 1599, one of the #music #books brought onto the #Mayflower in 1620 by William Brewster.

Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Richard de Winter: #tenor
Robin Jeffrey: #cittern
Alison Kinder: bass #viol
Tamsin Lewis: #alto
Lynda Sayce: #lute
Peter Willcock: #bass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EfzNJpdoPA&ab_channel=Passamezzo

#earlymusic #earlymodern #WilliamBrewster #Tudor #Tudors #TudorMusic #ElizabethanMusic #ElizabethI #tablebook #tablebooks #LordsPrayer#TheLordsPrayer #psalter #sheetmusic #musicprinting #musicprintinghistory #AmericanHistory #pilgrimfathers #mayflowerpilgrims #mayflowerpassengers #mayflowerhistory #histodon @histodon #histodons @histodons @earlymusic @earlymodernmaritimestudies
@earlymodern

Thanks to @haymarketbooks. "We know that books can be dangerous to those in power, especially when they are in the hands of folks who are organizing to fight for liberation. That’s why we publish them [now #OpenAccess]. That’s why [#Florida is] trying to ban them."
https://thehill.com/homenews/3845798-publishing-company-will-offer-free-black-history-e-books-especially-in-florida/

#AfricanAmericanHistory, #BlackHistory, #AmericanHistory

It's happy news day here at the CDRH/UNL!

"With a four-year, $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Nebraska historians William Thomas, Katrina Jagodinsky and Jeannette Eileen Jones, with collaborators from the College of Law, will establish an academic program that enables undergraduate and graduate students to study how marginalized groups in American history — enslaved people, racial minorities, women and Indigenous people, among others — used the law to contest and advance their rights."

https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/team-earns-1m-grant-to-bridge-connections-between-history-civil-rights/

#History #Law #AmericanHistory #Mellon

In honor of #FossilFriday here is Orra's depiction of #Megatherium or the Giant Ground Sloth. Megatherium was one of the earliest fossils discovered in the United States, identified from a claw found in a Virginia cave. Early naturalists like Thomas Jefferson mistook that claw for a lion's.

#sciencehistory #paleontology #geology #naturalhistory #womenshistory #americanhistory

YouTube kept taunting me with this..."You know you want to watch, you know you want to watch..."

Well, I caved and am glad I did

WARNING: discusses some unsettling violence, though not at all graphically

But...some interesting thought about the American frontier right after the Revolution, and how it shaped us

#AmericanHistory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEc-mr5APro

My review of the book On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down by James Fell #Americanhistory #bookreview #drunkhistory #history #worldhistory

https://thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2023/01/05/book-review-on-this-day-in-history-sht-went-down-by-james-fell/

My last toot just reminded me of a story.

As kids in America do we were taught about the Civil War in probably 4th grade.

Now, I come from the land of Lincoln. So, the history is deep in our state (Illinois). I lived in a 200 year old house with the underground railroad.

That summer my family and I went to Tennessee for vacation. The rebel flag was EVERYWHERE. I said, "Dad, why aren't these people in jail for having this flag? They're traitors! THE UNION WON!"

#History #AmericanHistory

There is a lot of nuance here that I can't fit into 500 characters. His utopian ideals were colored by the fact that he himself came from great wealth, and many of his reformist ideas don't hold up today. His utopian projects were built on stolen land. Maclure worked hand in hand with Jefferson to secure US control over the Louisiana "Purchase".

But he is an interesting figure in #americanhistory that is largely forgotten.

He thought mastodons were still extant and would be found in the American West. Jefferson gave explicit directions to Lewis and Clark to try and find a living animal. Deism is a helluva drug.

#paleontology #sciencehistory #americanhistory

He thought mastodons were still extant and would be found in the American West. Jefferson gave explicit directions to Lewis and Clark to try and find a living animal. Deism is a helluva drug.

#paleontology #sciencehistory #americanhistory

I mentioned how PT Barnum's American Museum in Philadelphia caught fire, but the disasters at his NYC location took the cake. That motherfucker burned down twice. Please enjoy some old newspaper woodcuts depicting the inferno

#history #museums #americanhistory #newyork

For those that wish to learn more - #History #AmericanHistory #FDR #WWII
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks7nCNwwZt0

#WWII #FDR #PearlHarborDay #AmericanHistory

Today is Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. This speech is one of the most iconic speeches in American History.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK8gYGg0dkE