Well that changes the narrative!

Here to validate the claim that academics are petty. I’d say more but pot, kettle, etc.

Montana Bill Would Charge Women for 'Trafficking' Their Own Fetus The legislation, House Bill 609, is the first of its kind in the country

This is terrifying. In the past, Montana's Supreme Court has given some protections to women's reproductive rights. Not entirely clear that will continue. jessica.substack.com/p/montana-bi...

Lol. Good point.

In this case I dared to say something on FB.

I'm having a "men explain things to me" day. Sigh.

Good day at the Bozeman Public Library’s book sale.

Perhaps this is why my dog is so interested in rabbits. They have something in common.

One things that has surprised me this semester is how many of my students never learned about the abolitionists or the people who opposed the annexation of Hawai'i and Texas. I need to do a better job of highlighting resistance in American history.

Bio DeCasseres was the daughter of Stephen Mack, Jr., Joseph Smith's 1st cousin. Born on a Ho-Chunk reservation, she was an early Indigenous poet and author. Wish the search for the origins of Joseph Smith's interest in Native Americans included her family.

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Ina Coolbrith, Amelia Truesdell, and the 1906 San Francisco Fire A few weeks ago, I received a message from The Huntington Library saying that they would be closing its special collections early due to a wind storm expected that afternoon.

Decided to start a Substack in hopes that writing really does beget more writing. I don't have paid subscriptions turned on yet, but it'll be a combo of Mormon history, environmental history, gender history, and literary history.

Check it out!

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I've decided I'd make a great paralegal or coffee shop barista. I got attacked by white nationalists for something inane a few years ago. It made me realize there's no way to protect myself, and I just have to do what I think is right.

One of the things we cover is how slavery changed over time in the American colonies and then the U.S. There have been forms of unfree labor in most societies, but I'm encouraging the students not to flatten societies and instead to dig into the details.

I'm teaching a course on family history right now, and wish I could zoom in on genealogical research on African American history in the 19th C. We spend 2 weeks on it, but it's such important work it needs a whole semester.

It is.... Montana, BUT, the course is actually fairly common. I have friends at various universities and colleges that teach the history of slavery.

My Slavery and Civil War class is giving me hope right now. Taught Ira Berlin (history of slavery), David Waldstreicher (slavery and the U.S. Constitution), and now turning to Manisha Sinha (abolition). Class is going better than it ever has.

Roots (TV Mini Series 1977) ⭐ 8.4 | Biography, Drama, History 1h 14m | TV-14

Teaching Roots tomorrow in my Family History course. My 8 yo was interested, so I let her watch Episode 3. She did fine. It made me think about how being forced to watch whatever your parents watched introduced kids to difficult topics. So much better than YouTube. www.imdb.com/title/tt0075...

That's the argument people make in support of asking students to debate both sides, but surely, there are other ways to get students to consider multiple points of view. The prob is the negative is required to take the opposite side no matter what the affirmative presents.

It was a policy debate round. I never did Lincoln-Douglas. It depends heavily on whether you are doing Policy Forum, LD, policy, etc.

I just got back from judging HS debate. The kids were wonderful but I felt uneasy after. There aren't always 2 sides. In HS, I was asked to argue against overturning Korematsu. Today, some kids were asked to argue against Indigenous bio-sovereignty. What are the kids supposed to get out of that?

Sounds like they were journaling? Mormons are encouraged to keep a diary throughout their lives, especially on their missions.

Beginning to wonder if I should have paid more attention to those daytime TV ads about training for a career as a medical transcriptionist or paralegal.

Your kids will know, trust me. Mine insult each other by saying "I heard you love Trump." We also talked about how weird it is that some of their friends have photos of Trump in their lockers. JTT and Ryder Strong were so much hotter.

instead of being made. As a result, it's hard for my students to imagine a world where chattel slavery didn't exist. It becomes too easy to assume that the equation of blackness + slavery is natural. This affects how they approach politics and the way they will teach their future students. 2/2

I am teaching the Civil War and added a section on the history of slavery from the 15th century onward, since we don't have a course on slavery at my university. It's been eye opening. Most of the students received the same history education that I did, where slavery just pops into existence... 1/

If Trump had trouble sitting through a modern Episcopal sermon, he would have died in the middle of a Puritan sermon. Quote from a Puritan sermon that I read today: "The best of our works are ‘as menstruous cloths’."

Article clipped from San Francisco Chronicle Clipping found in San Francisco Chronicle published in San Francisco, California on 6/4/1875.

Jack London is more interesting than I ever knew. His mother was a spiritualist who had a breakdown when her husband, a leading astrologist, denied being the father of her unborn child. His reasoning was that he was impotent.

www.newspapers.com/article/san-...

Am I the only who gets embarrassed when you see your book in a bookstore? I had talk myself into going to a used bookstore today, because I knew they had a copy of my book in stock.

Here’s a link to my book, I guess: www.amazon.com/Imperial-Zio...

Thumbnails of Henry VIII's wives - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr.

My youngest has fallen in love with the musical Six and has a favorite wife of Henry VIII. It's Catherine Parr.

Someone needs to tell her that Anne Boleyn is obviously the best wife.

Beautiful poem in the archives from Joseph Smith's niece Ina Coolbrith today.

"Where is the peace that should with thee abide
O Earth? Art still beneath the primal ban,
Availing naught the Holy Crucified?
No faith in God because no faith in man?"

This early twentieth century drawing I found in the archives at The Huntington Library is perhaps too accurate a depiction of motherhood.