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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's esp important for male academics to learn more about how problematic the Title IX process is and how poorly universities treat survivors. I helped organize a conference panel on this topic in 2022. The room was full--of women. Two men came. This isn't a women's issue, it's a human issue.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The real solution is collective, not individual: "Based on her study of more than 150 tribal societies, she identified what makes a society or culture “rape prone,” “rape free,” or something between the two.... in rape-free cultures, women have far more authority, status, safety, and freedom."

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We don't talk enough about the experience all historians have in front of the classroom where you say the thing you always say, have been saying for years, and all of a sudden, it takes on new meaning

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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm baffled at the time and $$$ spent to add proof to what we already knew. There is still so much to new to learn and such limited resources. 🗃️

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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The @ncph.bsky.social/ @aaslh.org conference has been such a whirlwind, but I had to pause for a pic w the inimitable Tricia Brooks. Tricia was my intern supervisor at SCOTUS curator's office in 2002, a career- and life-changing experience. She's now a VIP at NEH funding public history work

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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Every year on 9/11, I think of the brave people of Flight 93, who prevented their hijacked plane from attacking the US Capitol. They saved countless lives in Washington, DC. My father was on Capitol Hill that day, and they may well have saved his life. www.nps.gov/flni/learn/h... #sept11 🗃️

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Call to Action - Flight 93 National Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)

Call to Action

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Sara Ziemnik @sziemnik2198.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In case you need a lesson for 9/11 tomorrow. This is the lesson I almost didn’t do, that I threw together out of grief, and I’m so glad I did. Feel free to share with your students: primarysourcenexus.org/2024/02/teac...

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Teaching Now: Student Witnesses to History-Primary Source Nexus

Personal narratives from high school students on the first anniversary of September 11, 2001 provide students today with a powerful look at witnesses to history.

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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you're thinking about how to cover 9/11 with your students this week, here's what I did with my Museum Studies students last week. It should be scalable to shorter or longer lessons and could be good in any history course. 🗃️ #sschat #historyteacher

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Teaching 9/11 to a New Generation

It’s truly hard to believe that it’s been 25 years since the 9/11 attacks. Having been in downtown DC that day, I still feel the emotional weight and recall the terror that shattered ou…

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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just wanted to share a ray of light in these challenging times—my recently-adopted dog Blossom escaped from a friend’s house in #ArlingtonVA yesterday afternoon and ran at top speed down several yellow-line 2-lane roads. So many neighbors & passers-by stopped to help and saved Blossom’s life. /

Black and white curly-haired dog with an ID tag reading “Blossom”

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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A brief gender historian rant-- Journalists & pundits widely agree that the woman constantly at the president's side & with access to his social media clearly has enormous political influence & power. /1 🗃️

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."

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Artificial Intelligence Policy

Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+

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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is actually a better scenario than at my uni, where we’re told students should acquire “AI fluency” in our classes but we have zero institutional access to AI tools beyond Copilot (which, frankly, doesn’t count)

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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I generally try to withhold judgment—esp on social media!—until I have assessed evidence myself. I trusted Cleves’ account on what happened with her book & Walden’s bc she included specific details. As this detailed post shows, however, those details don’t check out if you read Walden’s book. /1

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/07/2026

Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This is a national park service site; @protectparks.bsky.social any info on this?

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The Administration that tried to unravel Wong Kim Ark and dismantle the Fourteenth Amendment surely would never do such a thing.

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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Scholarly folks who have ever received federal funding: today is the deadline for public comment on proposed revisions that will decimate our national research capacity and replace expertise with political whim. Please consider throwing in your 2¢. See below for some useful links and encouragement.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 13/07/2026

Rescinding a prize - if indeed that is what happened - is a big deal and I think the discipline deserves an explanation. Especially at a moment when the integrity of humanistic scholarship is being unfairly & wrongly attacked & cases like Greenidge will be used as ammunition by the center-right. 🗃️

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Mark Simpson-Vos @simpsonvos.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Lonnie Bunch deserves to be understood as one of the most consequential American historians of this generation.

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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Ditto. He is so widely admired at Smithsonian and far beyond.

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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I worked for the Smithsonian & held a fellowship at the American Art and American History Museums two years ago. The staff there is smart, talented, & dedicated. Thanks to @oah.org for quickly & forcefully speaking out. The report is truly "disingenuous and dangerous" www.oah.org/advocacy-sta... 🗃️

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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I didn’t even watch the game but this is 💯

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Today we celebrate the PDFing of "Declaration FINAL v3 USE THIS ONE - SIGNED.docx" (Jefferson's draft was heavily edited by the Committee, then again by Congress, and he was big mad about it.)

📂 Version 1.0 — June 20, 1776
File Name: Declaration_Draft_TJ_DO_NOT_EDIT.docx
Author: t_jefferson_33
Commit Message: "Initial copy-paste from my Mason_VA_Rights_Notes.txt and VA_Constitution_V2.docx scratchpads. Confine your review to grammar and typos, and do not redline, only leave comments."
Tracked Changes & Notes:
Line 14: "We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable..."
Comment from t_jefferson_33: "Certified banger."
📂 Version 1.1 — June 24, 1776
File Name: Declaration_Draft_TJ_comments_JA_BF.docx
Editors: b_franklin_GrittyOG and JA_redsoxfan (obo Committee, w/ Sherman and Livingston)
Commit Message: "First pass by the Committee of Five. Modest style changes."
Tracked Changes & Notes:
47 revisions (redlined), three full new paragraphs
Deleted: "sacred & undeniable" * Inserted: "self-evident"
Comment from b_franklin_GrittyOG: "250 years from now, people will think you wrote that banger. You’re welcome."
📂 Version 2.0 — June 28, 1776
File Name: Declaration_Committee_Review_FINAL.docx
Author: t_jefferson_33
Commit Message: "Incorporated Ben and John's very minor edits of my excellent first draft into a clean copy. Ready for the Continental Congress to approve verbatim."

📂 Version 2.1 to 2.8 — July 2 – July 4, 1776
File Name: Declaration_CONGRESS_REVISED2_redline_NEW_v4_approved..docx
Editors: Continental_Congress Group Chat (50+ active users)
Commit Message: "Line-by-line review by committee. Light trimming, a mere 20% of the original text. Optimizing for colonial unity."
Tracked Changes & Notes:
❌ CRITICAL DELETION: 300 word imprudent diatribe against KG III for transatlantic slave trade (“waging cruel war against human nature”).
Comment from dunkin_delegate: “Jefferson wrote that? He always struck me as a smug hypocrite. #IYKYK”
Comment from SC_delegation_delegate: "I thought we agreed this issue was off the table for now. It can be amicably settled later."
❌ DELETION: Large sections complaining about the ordinary British public being "deaf to the voice of justice."
Comment from NY_delegation_hub: "Guys, let's keep the finger pointed strictly at King George. If we trash the British citizens, we ruin any chance of future trade partnerships or alliances. Keep it professional."
➕ INSERTION: Added "appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world" and "with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence" to the closing paragraph.
Comment from Middlesex_Conservative: "Marketing requested more religious claptrap to ensure maximum buy-in from the zealots."
System Notification: User t_jefferson_33 reacted 👎(39 instances).
📂 Version 3.0 (Production) — July 4, 1776 (Late Morning)
File Name: Declaration_of_Independence_FINAL_v3_USE_THIS_ONE_SIGNED.docx
Editors: john_hancock_big_font
Commit Message: "Approved. Shipped to the printers. John Hancock didn't realize his zoom level was at 200% when he signed. Committee unable to find the one intern who can resize images, shipping anyway."
System Notification: User t_jefferson_33 has left the chat.

The draft of the Declaration was revised first by Adams and Franklin, and then by the full committee. A total of 47 alterations, including the insertion of three complete paragraphs, were made to the text before it was presented to Congress on June 28. After voting for independence on July 2, Congress continued to refine the document, making 39 additional revisions to the committee draft before its final adoption on the morning of July 4.

The draft shows the multiplicity of corrections, additions and deletions that were made at each step. Although most of the alterations are in Jefferson's handwriting (Jefferson later indicated which changes he believed were made by Adams and Franklin), he felt slighted by the way Congress rewrote the manuscript. In a consoling letter of July 21, 1776, the state's senior delegate, Richard Henry Lee, wrote to Jefferson that he wished that "the manuscript had not been mangled as it is." In an 1823 letter to Madison, Jefferson wrote that, at the time, "during the debate, I was sitting by Dr. Franklin and he observed that I was writhing a little under the acrimonious criticisms" of Congress. In fact, as Congress neared completion of the document by altering nearly all of his last paragraph, Jefferson could only write in the margin "a different phraseology inserted." Jefferson remained bitter about the changes made to the Declaration of Independence right up to his death. His autobiography was a major effort to set the record straight on its writing.

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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

So much of the good history programming for the 250th is due in part to the work of John & AASLH. They stepped up & helped guide the planning nationwide for many years in the absence of national leadership. 🗃️

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Abe Lincoln vs. the "heritage American" crowd, 1858: It doesn't matter where your ancestors were in 1776. Americans who read the Declaration and affirm its creed "have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote [it] ...and so they are."

We have besides these men—descended by blood from our ancestors—among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men, they are men who have come from Europe—German, Irish, French and Scandinavian—men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things. If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration, (loud and long continued applause) and so they are.

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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

'We have it in our power to begin the world over again." -Thomas Paine, Common Sense

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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This scene with indigenous people sounds as bad or worse than the (super problematic & apocryphal) "Indian Prophecy" story that GW's step-grandson George Washington Parke Custis popularized in the 19th c /1 🗃️

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Justice Jackson: "Justice Thomas's telling elides the entire point of the Second Founding: The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery."

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Just a reminder that undoing the Second Founding has been on the right's agenda for a very long time. bsky.app/profile/larr...

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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Hoping @sarageorgini.bsky.social is cool with my saying JA was not a very good politician ;) #HATM

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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The opening quotes from @amrevmuseum.bsky.social's Adrienne Whaley are fantastic #HATM

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This is terrible, and on the eve of the 250th. What a loss. His contributions to our understanding of the Revolution are incalculable. And he was an amazing writer, too.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.

Senator Andy Kim runs into the street as an ICE armored vehicle behind him prepares to deploy chemical agents against protestors in front of Delaney Hall concentration camp in Newark, NJ. His hands are outstretched and he appears to be shouting.

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Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

“how long must women wait for liberty?” was on the signs suffragists brought to protest in front of the White House in 1917. Spoiler alert: they were also the last words Ines Milholland uttered publicly… Rest in Power, Ines. America’s suffrage martyr. #hatm #suffs

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Caitlyn Jones @caitlynjones.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

If you want to know more about all five of the NWP headquarters, I made a StoryMap about them #HATM storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/cfd4...

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Claiming Space

How the National Woman's Party redrew DC's political landscape

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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

First time seeing Suffs and I love this song centered on the phrase "Find a way"--the motto of my all-girls high school, Holton-Arms (founded 1901), is inveniam viam aut faciam--I will find a way or make one. #HATM

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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

My favorite is a deep cut from early in the movement--Clarina Nichols. She was witty, sarcastic, pragmatic, fearless--all behind a public persona as a pious mother. Check out the 2010 bio of her, Frontier Feminist #HATM

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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Things that make grading less of a chore: one of my students wrote a particularly harsh burn about the Whigs in his exam: "they're like the Washington Generals of American history, right?" 🗃️

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