Matthew Downey

Specializing in History & Literacy Education | Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Northern Colorado

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The first car accident occurred in 1891, in Ohio. #funfactfriday

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In 5,000 years of human history, only one disease has been eradicated: smallpox. #funfactfriday

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800-Year-Old Skeleton Yields Genome of Deadly Infection https://t.co/FDHSNr8WQg

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Human Computers: The Women of NASA https://t.co/GJArlS00hB

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John D. Rockefeller Was the Richest Person To Ever Live. Period https://t.co/I2L3x83aQt

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Humans have been hunter-gatherers for 99% of their history. #funfactfriday

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History of the Presidential Cabinet https://t.co/vpiFRuXHRj

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Murder, Marriage and the Pony Express: Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Buffalo Bill https://t.co/4uv0t4bHv7

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A History of the Presidential Farewell Address https://t.co/LcIFz9x1NP

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The Student and the Spy: How One Man’s Life Was Changed by the Cambridge Five https://t.co/bjAn93eWFZ

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The First Foreign-Born First Lady: Louisa Catherine Adams https://t.co/R4a4r9fUFo

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Why Some Women Campaigned Against The Vote For Women https://t.co/mwzfAZCivO

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The Treacherous Race to the South Pole https://t.co/gjjAIsvNHS

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In 1957, The U.S. Flew a Jet Around the World to Prove it Could Drop a Nuclear Bomb Anywhere https://t.co/yH5HZ7Aogc

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The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 https://t.co/QRJWIlpFEN

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Eleven Times When Americans Have Marched in Protest on Washington https://t.co/UNx1PHUiqR

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Alternate Take: What If Martin Luther King Hadn’t Been Killed? https://t.co/r4q39aIram

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Where We Got the Term “Banana Republic” https://t.co/LOp8MDAo5D

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Why America Has a “President” Instead of an “Exalted Highness” https://t.co/sPWaml2lla

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Animals were put on trial in medieval times and routinely sentenced to death. #funfactfriday