US Hist, #APUSH, and contemporary issues. Passionate about perspectives in history. Soap boxes include study skills, writing, and cognitive sci in the clsrm.
The Chi-Hi boys basketball team its first regional championship since 1998 by holding off D.C. Everest 69-67 in the Division 1 regional finals on Saturday.
STORY: https://t.co/Wvx7s4Kppn
PHOTOS: https://t.co/2yY63omDao
I shared this tweet earlier not realizing how controversial it would be. The processes by which humans learn is the same. The knowledge and experience they bring to the table is different, but attempting to personalize learning to each unique student is unnecessary.
While I sympathize with all the #twitterstorians worrying that they aren’t going to cover all the US Survey material by the end of the semester, allow me to share 10 reasons why I think it’s *crucial* to always carve out enough time to sufficiently cover Reconstruction. /1
It's difficult for us to join #WorldChildrensDay. The history of #Auschwitz is also the tragic story of over 232,000 babies, kids and teenagers deported to the camp where they were murdered or imprisoned. We honor & remember them today.
#WorldChildrensDay A heart-breaking moment in an SS picture of Hungarian Jews near gas chamber IV at #Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944. A child found a dandelion in the grass and is giving or showing it to an older boy. All the people in the picture were gassed moments later.
Hong Kong’s leader estimates 100 protesters remain holed up in a university that has been blockaded by police, while 600 protesters have left the campus.
https://t.co/xtel5yOIW0
Brazilian-born Auschwitz survivor Andor Stern had his bar mitzvah at age 91. He was 17 when he was liberated from #Auschwitz.
‘Despite everything, I am very grateful to life for everything.’ https://t.co/Oftvq2TKx6
Nat Turner was executed #OTD in 1831 after leading a rebellion of enslaved people. This short text can help students understand his life, his courage and his resistance.
https://t.co/b8xYTlzRbP
There's a shoe salesman from Emporia, Kansas, who probably isn't in many history books, but he deserves at least a paragraph. #VeteransDay
https://t.co/qBkSJg15h7
“People ask me when I was in Vietnam. When I was in Vietnam? It was last night. It was this morning, five minutes ago before you asked me. And I will probably go back tonight."
A Vietnam veteran describes what it’s like to live with PTSD: https://t.co/cnSu5sszm3
The mayor of Milwaukee has signed off on the approved sale and construction of a village of 48 tiny homes for homeless veterans. (via @WPR)
https://t.co/dUp1aTZvOQ
When students couldn't afford to pay tuition, Berea College eliminated it.
In 1920, its board of trustees ruled any unrestricted money given to the school would be invested in an endowment to grow over time.
The endowment is now worth about $1.2 billion. https://t.co/4J73a55A12
11 November 1941 | On the Polish Independence Day the Germans carried out the first execution by shooting in the yard of Block 11 of the #Auschwitz camp. Most probably 151 people were shot in the back of their heads - almost all of them Poles. #11listopada 1/5
“People ask me when I was in Vietnam. When I was in Vietnam? I was there last night, I was there this morning, five minutes ago before you asked me and I will probably go back tonight."
A Vietnam veteran describes what it’s like to live with PTSD: https://t.co/5t2AxuTI1r
New research finds that young girls and boys have "indistinguishable" math abilities — contradicting the idea that men largely dominate STEM fields because their brains are wired that way. https://t.co/WbJTUP5U7F