This should be easy for the The New York Times

Getting closer - still not quite right

Yes, DC should be a state, and Puerto Rico should also.

The GOP platform and Education Week's take - it's best to see these side by side

US History teachers should throw this into the lesson sequence at the start of that World War II unit

High School history teachers looking for a history lesson prank might have fun with a War of the Worlds and Fake News lesson tinyurl.com/23a977ks It should work for both Halloween and dodging the election for another day #sschat

It takes a lot for this lifelong Orioles fan to offer condolences to Yankees fans, but that was a tough one. But the team, the city and the fans deserve respect for accepting the results of the 2024 World Series.

Maybe The New York Times missed this, but I wonder whether the case was made to use it instead of simply amplifying the intended message by using images framed by the campaign itself. They must have known a picture like this exists or known that they could have taken it themselves

There's a script for this. Marinus van der Lubbe, who was convicted for the arson of the Reichstag building, was executed by guillotine on January 10, 1934 at the age of 24. The executioner wore top hat and tails.

TFW you realize that tomorrow's date is "November 5" and you lose an hour reading through accounts and interpretations of Pope Night celebrations in pre-revolutionary Boston looking for an omen

This is no longer a serious publication....

Answering a student's "Why?" question about McCarthyism isn't easy. Putting McCarthyism in a calendar events to start thinking about the "Why?" in the context of what happened before and after is much easier, a good place to start. Here's how we did it - tinyurl.com/2bn9curs

No one alive in 1938, 1858 or 1985 could predict their future. Even in retrospect it's difficult to comprehend the scale of World War II, the Civil War and the end of the Soviet Union. We can't predict our future either, but we can get a sense of scale tinyurl.com/28gcm4c2

Hiring a decorating service to string up lights on your house for the holidays is like using AI to write – the product looks good but a little fake – and you gain nothing from it. A thought unlikely to change any student's mind, but I'll share it anyway. tinyurl.com/22xlls22

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Wondering whether the work of history teachers to help students make sense of the past so they understand it also makes then ill-equipped to appreciate the size, scope and scale of seismic change that defies any sense in the present. infinitude.maherpages.net/index.php/2025…

FTFY elenashao.bsky.social

Serious question US History teachers - is this quote going to make it into your next current event lesson? If you include it you're contributing to the deterioration of public discourse. If you don't include it, you're covering up a President's deterioration of public discourse

Yesterday's thoughts on the Revolution. If we don't know it all (and no one does, nor will anyone), how can we decide what is "essential"? tinyurl.com/Calculus-of-Te…