MsB History

Historian. Teacher. Former NPS Ranger. Tweets are my own. (she/her) #BLM ✌🏼

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

Happy Retirement, Betty!

Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest active ranger in the National Park Service at age 100, retired today after a remarkable career. Learn more: https://t.co/sUOb3R5ZFQ

📸Betty Reid Soskin @RosieRiveterNPS

[MsB History @MsB_History]

@Boston1775 Also never seen this before! Wow

[MsB History @MsB_History]

Go Allie & Izzy! 🏀

[Boston Latin School Athletics @BLS_Athletics]

Come support the Girls Basketball team tonight in the MIAA state tournament! Tickets are $7 Adults/$5 Students.

All players, coaches, and spectators must wear masks

Livestream - https://t.co/SnMpm76Twf

[ACLU @ACLU]

Trans youth are loved.
Trans youth are beautiful.
Trans youth belong.

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

For the Japanese American community, today is a solemn day. It's the Day of Remembrance, the anniversary of FDR's Executive Order 9066, which ordered the internment of 120,000 persons of Japanese descent, two-thirds of whom were citizens of the United States.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

Happy Birthday to Frederick Douglass, the greatest American ever born. When he self-emancipated, Douglass chose Valentine's Day as his birthday because his mother gave him a heart-shaped cake right before she was sold away. This country has taken so much, and yet we keep giving.

[MsB History @MsB_History]

@GusGranger @historysmith @KevinLevin @uncivilshow Ha! Yes, an excellent point 😂👍🏼

[MsB History @MsB_History]

@historysmith @KevinLevin Came here to suggest @uncivilshow 👍🏼

[Chicago Teachers Union @CTULocal1]

Listen to students.

[Emily Schario @emilyschario]

Former PBS Kids….ASSEMBLE 😤 @GBH @GBHNews

[MsB History @MsB_History]

Thank you @AvashiaNeema It's been a long, arduous week for Mass. teachers. Why won't our state leaders apologize? https://t.co/Q2oDDhYHu5 via @cogwbur

[Maura Finkelstein @Dr_mauraf]

“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility.” - bell hooks. Rest in Power ❤️‍🔥

[Tera Hunter @TeraWHunter]

Read DuBois. Teach DuBois. He wrote Black Reconstruction in 1935. Still urgent today.

[Zinn Ed Project @ZinnEdProject]

Just 4 more days to watch "The Neutral Ground," a poignant, hilarious, historically astute doc on Confederate monuments & the myth of the Lost Cause.

Watch it with your family. You’ll think. You’ll laugh. You’ll have great conversations. @itsnotneutral
https://t.co/wLWiG92yvQ

[MsB History @MsB_History]

🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

[Rob Maxim @robmaxim]

On the 400th anniversary of what is called the ‘First Thanksgiving,’ I want to highlight a project that has changed my and many other Wampanoag people’s lives

Here’s a 🧵 on how a Wampanoag woman, jessie little doe baird, brought our language back from near extinction (1/25):

[The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History @Gilder_Lehrman]

"No one owns history, but we are all responsible for it, bound by our humanity to know as much of it as we can."

Read historian @davidwblight in @TheAtlantic: "Trust the Teachers: Here's What Parents Need to Understand about the Teaching of History."
https://t.co/LgxfGXtYoV

[Adam “Mex-Sicko” Reyna @wayneadam]

Truly enjoyed the @throughlineNPR podcast with @nhannahjones. Such immense and powerful words. Please listen.

https://t.co/dTYYkQ2qBW

[MsB History @MsB_History]

The perfect day for some APUSH-ing at the 54th MA Memorial with a special @BOAFNPS guest! ☀️🙌🏼

[MsB History @MsB_History]

Got to do a 54th talk with @hkergrrl today 🙌🏼

[MsB History @MsB_History]

@BostonHistory @BOAFNPS You caught @hkergrrl rangering hard here and me with the glare 😂