mr. pags

Hoping to help out my students study history, provide resources, and also promote their interest in current events. All tweets are mine alone.

[mr. pags @PagsAPUSH]

@laurenboebert Neither did any deaths in shootings in America.

[RetroNewsNow @RetroNewsNow]

On April 17, 1961, a group of Cuban exiles, financed and trained by the CIA, landed at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack ended in failure

[mr. pags @PagsAPUSH]

@PeteNBCBoston Push it south!

[Daniel Jocz @joczproductions]

I may be in the minority here, but I think teaching students to meet deadlines still matters. The trend in education seems to be late work whenever and endless test retakes. I’m all for discussions around grading practices, but LAUSD’s new grading guidance is awful.

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

Today in 1861, Union and Confederate armies fight the first major battle of the Civil War at Bull Run near Manassas, Virginia. Washingtonians ride out from the capital in carriages to eat picnic lunches and watch the defeat of the Southern rebellion. They will be disappointed.

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

On this day in 1944, American troops land on Guam. Of the 18,000 Japanese soldiers dug in on the island, all but 400 will be killed in 20 days of heavy fighting.

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

On this day in 356 BCE, Alexander the Great is born in Macedon. "There is nothing impossible to him who will try."

[U.S. politicians doing normal shit @normalpols]

Harry S. Truman in his home in Missouri with his wife Bess Truman reading. 1950s.

[Robert Kosin @bobvbh]

@triviapotus Before Twitter, POTUS took to radio and had his first Fireside Chat

[mr. pags @PagsAPUSH]

#NewDeal #APUSH

[mr. pags @PagsAPUSH]

This happened TODAY. #apush

[Mike Memoli @mikememoli]

13 New Hampshire state Reps voted to have the state secede from the union. That's a thing that happened today

[National Air and Space Museum @airandspace]

#OTD in 1990, our Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird had a last flight befitting its incredible career, setting a new speed record while flying from LA to DC in 1 hour, 4 minutes, 20 seconds, averaging 2,124 mph (3,418 kph).

[Jenny Grant @SilenceInPolish]

#OTD in 1953

A Ukrainian restaurant in the US celebrates the death of Stalin.

[Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky @lmchervinsky]

#OTD in 1820, James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise, which admitted Maine as a free state & Missouri as a slave state, and prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of 36° 30´ latitude.

Jefferson described the agreement as a "reprieve only, not a final sentence."

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

On this day in 1836, 1,800 Mexican troops storm the Alamo ending a 13-day siege. Almost all of the fort's 250 defenders perish in the assault.

[mr. pags @PagsAPUSH]

Chemist Alice Ball is today’s #WomensHistoryMonth focus. She helped develop a treatment for Hansen’s disease, which most people know as leprosy. For more in this innovator, see https://t.co/JzeiYDtCQb

[mr. pags @PagsAPUSH]

Grace Hopper served in the US Navy, earning the rank of rear admiral. More significantly, she is today’s #WomensHistoryMonth focus because she was a pioneer in computer programming and developing program languages. For more see https://t.co/u3X8Zd6iwS

[Daniel Jocz @joczproductions]

There are about 67 days until the APUSH exam.

There are also significant historical events happening now.

The content & testing demands imposed by the College Board means many students are not receiving time in their AP classes learning about topics relevant to their lives.

[mr. pags @PagsAPUSH]

It’s #WomensHistoryMonth and todays focus is on Margaret E. Knight. Possibly the most prolific American female inventor of the 19th c., she invented a machine to make paper bags at age 30. Mechanization and industrialization were just beginning. For more: https://t.co/AHgTiVxsoq