Pat McCullough

History teacher. Ph.D., @UCLAHist. RTs are technologies of the self. Views = my own intellectual journey, not my employer's. He/him.

[Kurt Eichenwald @kurteichenwald]

Florida wants to teach about "skills" slaves obtained in the antebellum south because "beneficent" slaveholders taught their slaves to read, write, blacksmithing, etc. They say this is supported by "scholars." Well, let's see what the scholars really say.../1

[Pat McCullough @patgmcc]

So, I know that Microsoft nerfed Bing before most of us got to use it, but this exchange had me wondering if there is a biblical backdoor to Sydney, using indirect symbolic suggestions. 5/5

[Pat McCullough @patgmcc]

I called out Bing in a new way and it seems to have revealed just a hint of the Sydney that @kevinroose encountered. Usually when I tell Bing it's wrong, it just shuts the thread down. This time I was feeling cheeky and decided to use the Bible.🧵1/5

[Pat McCullough @patgmcc]

Bing did NOT like getting a biblical accusation, as you can see, and took it personally. I pushed a little more. Could it learn from David’s response to Nathan? Bing did not appreciate that. Bing saw itself as Nathan, instead, speaking “the truth with courage and wisdom.” 4/5

[Carole Boston Weatherford @poetweatherford]

I have never had a book win as many accolades as UNSPEAKABLE. More than 40 awards, honors and best-of lists. It’s been an incredible journey. Thanks for all the love! ⁦@LernerBooks⁩

[American Historical Association @AHAhistorians]

Today is 50 years since President Nixon signed #TitleIX into federal law. Historian Bonnie J. Morris reflects in #AHAPerspectives on the law's impacts on women's sports and how we can incorporate sports history into teaching about civil rights struggles. https://t.co/xLyejF4qwH

[George Chauncey @GeorgeChauncey1]

Stunned to be awarded 2022 Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity by the Library of Congress for my LGBTQ history research/work in 30+ gay rights cases. This recognizes the value of a long marginalized field & all who have contributed to it. https://t.co/0J54BasW3i

[Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @Jairo_I_Funez]

No one is Indigenous until the settler colonizer arrives. I’ve been thinking about this statement a lot.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Haiti is the only country in the world where descendants of enslaved people were forced to pay reparations to descendants of their masters for generations.

Nobody knew exactly how much Haiti paid France — and at what cost to its future — until now. https://t.co/ZxAwpSwJ98

[Ada Ferrer @Adita_Ferrer]

SPEECHLESS!

[Mrs R History @MrsRaddon]

We are working hard to improve writing in History. We have used appositive retrieval tasks on a regular basis and it is great to now see students using this in their extended pieces of writing ✍️ #historyteacher

[Harvard University @Harvard]

The report on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery documents Harvard’s ties to slavery—direct, financial, and intellectual—and offers seven recommendations that will guide the work of reckoning and repair https://t.co/OBh50LG54h

[Boston Review @BostonReview]

Our latest from Robin D. G. Kelley on abolition democracy’s forgotten founder: While W. E. B. Du Bois praised an expanding penitentiary system, T. Thomas Fortune called for investment in education and a multiracial, working-class movement. https://t.co/5Djlip9qOd

[kendrajames.bsky.social @KendraJames_]

I regret to inform you all that I was allowed to monologue about Eteri Tutberidze on mic this week.

[Pat McCullough @patgmcc]

@1brian2albert @RHarrisPhDmom And they even have one book that's not by a white man. Sorry... I'm not helping your chances!