We hear it from students all the time: “.com websites are bad. .edu and .org websites are good, unless it’s Wikipedia.” These misconceptions can lead students dangerously astray. A thread on the problem and lesson ideas to use with your students. 🧵
@MSteinerHistory So many of these others look more important, but this one is interesting for thinking about cultural identity: https://t.co/fiSOpaDOkc
@nellstra Once I was accused of not calling someone Dr. in an email. The problem was that I had written Dr., but they had misread. When I pointed this out, they basically accused me of hacking into Microsoft’s servers and changing it.
Anyway, I always say Dr. or Professor.
@mnolangray Not definitive, but some context. There are only a few cities where real estate is undervalued or close to it. Notably: Chicago, Jackson, San Jose, El Paso, Montgomery.
https://t.co/PgFNVAn4hZ
On the day of a mass shooting and weeks after news of Roe, Democratic Party leadership rallied for a pro-NRA, anti-choice incumbent under investigation in a close primary. Robocalls, fundraisers, all of it.
Accountability isn’t partisan. This was an utter failure of leadership.
@nellstra My great grandfather Giuseppe probably gave the immigration officials the name of the orphanage or area he came from, and they turned it into Stamilio.
My great grandmother was named Antonia, and I’m told she also had blue eyes.
Today at #MidwestHistory2022, PhD @SeanTJacobson on The Cross at the Straits: Northern Michigan Tourism, Religious Heritage, and Anishinaabeg Perseverance & PhD Cand @SfolkDurin on Celebrity, Divorce, and the Melodrama in the Civil War Era. @LoyolaChicago @LUCGradSchool @MwHWG
@DanHillHistory @KevinBrigger I’m going to Normandy on D-Day this year out of curiosity about the way it’s celebrated and because I want to trace my grandfather’s steps.