Abbey Shimer

Aspiring historian. Hopeless idealist. Christian. Ph.D. candidate researching the beginning of the modern homeschool movement in the US. #WomenAlsoKnowHistory

[Abbey Shimer @shimer_abbey]

The great thing about being the instructor is that you actually have the authority to say, "yes, we CAN have class OUTSIDE today."

[Abby Barr @1AbbyRoad]

so Steve Martin is definitely gonna play Walz on SNL right

[Abbey Shimer @shimer_abbey]

@develvishist I love this so much 😂😂

[Scot McKnight @scotmcknight]

The "mainline" and the "evangelical": what are the differences? https://t.co/Tg9y38nKMF

[emilie @emiliepfrank]

watching gymnastics

[Abbey Shimer @shimer_abbey]

Revising my slides and realizing what week I will inevitably get behind lecturing this year 😅

[Devika Dutt @devikadutt]

Check in on your academic friends. They just realized that it is August 1, and they are not okay.

[Abbey Shimer @shimer_abbey]

So today I found out that William F. Buckley Jr was endorsing Algebra curriculum back in the early 1980s. #amresearching

[Abbey Shimer @shimer_abbey]

Joe, I was having a productive afternoon!

[Abbey Shimer @shimer_abbey]

“In all, 19 of the men received the Medal of Honor in the years that followed. But two soldiers who were executed by Confederates soon after the mission were never recognized.” https://t.co/UHXL4fHn58

[Abbey Shimer @shimer_abbey]

Looking through old magazines (1993) with lots of ads and realizing how insanely expensive children’s educational computer games were. 😅

[Abbey Shimer @shimer_abbey]

Writing a chapter where the two folks I’m discussing the most are Farris and Harris. No, I definitely never mix those up….

[Abbey Shimer @shimer_abbey]

Went to see some Charleston forts over the weekend and I didn’t melt 😅

[Abbey Shimer @shimer_abbey]

@HerecomesDrBob I thought it was going to be funny and just found it disturbing 😅

[Simone @girlpowertbh]

sobbing over these mail plushies the USPS sells

[Abbey Shimer @shimer_abbey]

I did not realize until I was reading for history comp exams how fraught teaching/reciting the Ten Commandments was between Protestants and Catholics school children in US history. Even between Christian groups, this isn’t a new issue.

[Andrew L. Seidel @AndrewLSeidel]

There are more than 1million Catholics in Louisiana. The state chose a Protestant version of the Ten Commandments to display in classrooms. Then the state edited the Protestant version.

This should piss off everyone.

[National Council for History Education @historyed]

Information is power.

Studying history gives a deep, contextual understanding of where we've succeeded, where we've faltered, and how we can improve to make the United States better for everyone. #HistoryMatters

[Abbey Shimer @shimer_abbey]

��Microschool students are usually registered with their states as home-schoolers. But the new generation of microschools …operate more like modern-day one-room schoolhouses, meeting in homes, church basements and storefronts.” https://t.co/sjUcfj3jfE

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1954, Southern state officials met in Virginia and organized resistance to the Supreme Court's recent decision in Brown v. Board of Education striking down school segregation. https://t.co/3M0v5Gt36M

[ChristinaProenzaColes @ProenzaColes]

Amanda Smith was born enslaved in 1837, acquired an education, preached her beliefs, traveled the world, & established an orphanage in Illinois in 1899 that became a school. She traveled to England (with her daughter), India, & Liberia & published an autobiography in 1883.