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The 2025 AP US History Exam scores: 5: 14%; 4: 36%; 3: 23%; 2: 19%; 1: 8%. Congrats to this year’s cohort of AP US History teachers and students; common item equating shows that this year’s students developed stronger content knowledge and skills than last year’s, raising the

A new month means a new standee featuring a Roosevelt era celebrity highlighted in our "Signature Moments" exhibit (fdrlibrary.org/exhibitions). Swing by the visitor center and snap a pic with Amelia Earhart (whose plane went missing #OTD, July 2, 1937). #fdrsignaturemoments

Independence Day is a reminder that America is not the project of any one person. The single most powerful word in our democracy is the word ‘We.’ ‘We The People.’ ‘We Shall Overcome.’ ‘Yes We Can.’ America is owned by no one. It belongs to all citizens. And at this moment in

While Kristi Noem’s out here blaming everyone but herself, here’s her own April press release bragging about clawing back $882M in disaster resilience grants. The kind that could’ve helped in Texas. They’d rather wage culture wars than actually protect human lives.

At least he’s stopped blaming the immigrants. For now.

Jim Lovell (1928-2025):

This is fascism

Which part?

Guess which one wants to get tough on crime?

Ok this Thoughtful Thursday is more of a question. On August 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Mississippi—his death and the courage of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, became a spark for the Civil Rights Movement. Eight years later, on the very same

Pay attention. Donald Trump is dismantling the First Amendment in real time.

I fear that we will not have an election in 2028 -- I really mean that in the core of my soul -- unless we wake up to what's happening in this country.

On September 24, 1789, Congress passed the Judiciary Act, formally creating the United States Supreme Court. So let’s talk about some of the more unusual cases the Supreme Court ruled on over the years! Nix v. Hedden (1893): The Supreme Court ruled that tomatoes were

ALL IS WELL IN CHIEFS KINGDOM.

President Trump littered his Cabinet meeting today with false claims about vaccines and other subjects. A quick fact check: No, there’s no link between vaccines and autism. The CDC website still notes that this idea has been debunked. No, babies aren’t given vaccines twice the

A person who renamed a department to the Department of War, doesn't deserve a Nobel A person who sends troops into his own cities, doesn't deserve the Nobel A person who says a democratically elected governor should be in jail, doesn't deserve a Nobel The Nobel Prize #NobelPrize

WH itself appears to be aware this is problematic: CNN: Staff at the Treasury Department received an email on Monday instructing them to refrain from taking photos of the construction happening on the White House’s East Wing after images of demolition in preparation for

#OnThisDay in 1863, David Wills invited #AbrahamLincoln to deliver "a few appropriate remarks" at a little town in Pennsylvania where a national cemetery was being established. Those remarks would become the Gettysburg Address -- perhaps the greatest speech in American history.

The moment FOX NFL Fantasy News mentioned they would be interviewing the dumper in chief. What happened to the crying of keeping politics out of sports? #NoThanks NFL