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Jennifer Welch

@jenniferawelch.bsky.social
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Teaching history, learning history, talking history. Working to understand what we mean by citizenship and citizenship education. #iCivicsednet #NCCed

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.
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Rsquared @rsquared.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
There will, in fact, be hateration in the dancerie.
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
There is no pair better qualified to speak on this matter. I am so glad they shared their arguments with the Court.
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
I’m so super proud that I got to be a small part of this work!
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I love this! I’m in! Anyone else?
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I’m listening to 20 kids fight over how much food to buy for the Oregon Trail. I love my job.
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
It was never about controlling spending or paying down the federal debt. "[A]bout $17 million from the National Endowment for the Humanities and about $17 million from the National Endowment for the Arts would be directed to the Garden of Heroes." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/a...
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Canceled Humanities Grants to Help Pay for Trump’s ‘Garden of Heroes’ (Gift Article)
The National Endowment for the Humanities, which supports museums and historical sites, will redirect funds to the president’s planned patriotic sculpture garden.
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Visiting the National Museum of African American History and Culture is one of the most powerful and profound experiences I have had. The National Museum of Women’s History hasn’t even opened yet.
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I was so excited to participate in #CivicLearningWeek by participating in #OTWV #OnTuesdaysWeVote! My students were asked, "Should civics education be a requirement for high school graduation?" The ones who said no, still said it was important and should be incorporated into their classwork!
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I am so excited to enter my ARC era with this book by a woman whom I admire tremendously. It drops tomorrow - go and grab it! @marthasjones.bsky.social @netgalley.bsky.social @hachettelibrary.bsky.social www.instagram.com/p/DGweWLOtfU...
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Anna Maria Barry-Jester @annamaria.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Pete Hegseth just reportedly ordered the US military’s Cyber Command to “stand down” from all planning against Russia. Analysts have been ordered not to follow or report on Russian threats. One inside source said, “Putin is on the inside now.”
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Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats
Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual. cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.
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National Constitution Center @constitutionctr.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
#OnThisDay in 1905, #SCOTUS determines it is constitutional for states to fine residents who refuse to receive smallpox vaccinations in Jacobson v. Massachusetts. Learn more about this case and its relevance today on #ConstitutionDaily: ow.ly/wpar50UUkpb
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On this day, the Supreme Court rules on vaccines and public health
In the face of future public health emergencies like the Coronavirus, a precedential Supreme Court decision about the government’s power to protect citizens by quarantine and forced vaccinations could receive new interest.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
"It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours & 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control."
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I threw my annual birthday party for Frederick Douglass in class today. Some of the students’ gifts to him kinda got me…
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
When I saw this in my feed this morning, I said dang, how on earth are they going to be able to do this in a fair and non-partisan way? Dang that Jeff Rosen - he sure did it. Highly recommend: @constitutionctr.bsky.social
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
When the library has the book ready for you on release day! @authorvcm.bsky.social
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
One of my students just wrote about how helpful it was to use the “rule brick” and now I just wanna buy these: #sschat
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
That’s January! Thanks, @thestorygraph.com!
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I can’t believe I am watching THEE Jeff Rosen riff on the Declaration without notes for 20 minutes! @constitutionctr.bsky.social @amrevmuseum.bsky.social @marthasjones.bsky.social
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
It’s my lucky day! Thanks to @marthasjones.bsky.social and to @netgalley.bsky.social!
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I love you, @thestorygraph.com - and I am sure this isn’t a new question - but how do I record ARCs? Or - do I not? Sorry to ask what must be a redundant question!
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Oh this is tremendous!
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
A student question today: When did the first ten amendments become known as “The Bill of Rights,” and why? Is the answer England? #sschat @civics101pod.bsky.social
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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers. Science works, y'all. www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...
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Closure of northern Minnesota camp is ‘the greatest story.’ Here’s why.
Willow River, Minn., camp One Heartland is for sale after serving kids there for nearly three decades.
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
So I finally started hanging my new posters from @periodicprez.bsky.social and @civics101pod.bsky.social. I had parked one on the Shadow Docket on one student’s desk, and she was mesmerized! So I hooked her up with the Civics101 podcast, and now she’s hooked and wants more! As Cesar Rodney
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o.social: Your gateway to understanding social connections and building meaningful relationships in the digital age. Explore social dynamics and community building.
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Never clicked “preorder” so fast! @marthasjones.bsky.social
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
I've really been trying to make my history lessons connect clearly to contemporary issues. So for my college class on the Depression and New Deal, I am using @RetroReport's lesson on the generational impact of the FHA and redlining. That makes me extra glad to say:
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
Much love and thanks to @NPR’s Book of the Day podcast and César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández for this challenging morning of thinking and reading.
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
I am so glad to be a returning member of the @iCivics #iCivicsEdNet!
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
There I was, just reading down a rabbit hole, and I found - could it be? @mrshistorylee.bsky.social? www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/01...
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 23/12/2023
Thanks to all the folks who suggested holiday sweater assignments - and to the teacher who so generously posted her templates!
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
I can definitely get behind the way my bosses express appreciation at the holidays!
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
I can't believe I forgot to post about what a great #BillofRights Day we had on Friday! Thanks to the National Constitution Center and @civics101pod.bsky.social for making our celebration real! Featured lots of @NCSSNetwork conference swag as prizes! #ssschat
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
It seems kinda rude that I am teaching about Hurricane Katrina this morning.
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
My first semester of teaching college was full of unexpected challenges. But the finals were joy, thanks to a colleague's suggestion. We had a monument to the Miranda warning, a poem about the Equal Pay Act, and a dance lesson to celebrate the history of disco!
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
I try to fight the temptation to be alarmist about civic education, but I have seen several people on this app in the last two days that are advising Biden to become a dictator to further programs they favor, or to stop a different dictator, and I guess I was wrong.
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
My students today had a question for @civics101pod.bsky.social. Have you ever done an episode on Bruen? Would you consider it? (It’s come up a ton in their learning about Rahimi.)
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 10/12/2023
I’m calling this my @icivics anniversary. Close-up shot of those iCivics worksheets! (I still remember having to cut out those strips with their logins!)
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Jennifer Welch @jenniferawelch.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
OK, folks! Trying to get used to posting here! I wonder how I can find all my #sschat and #sschatreads folks over here? And are we searching for individual historians? I've loved the pedagogical tips and the historical learning from social media and want to keep it going! What are your best tips!
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