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The Blue Bird & the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association
If you’ve been following my social media, you are likely privy to the fact that I’ve started creating history apparel to help me cover the cost of producing The Teaching History Her Way Podcast, which is set to start season 3 this fall (!!). The latest design is from a photograph I took of a…
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Mabel Ping-Hua Lee: Suffragist, Activist, Revolutionary
Lucretia Mott. Susan B. Anthony. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. When you hear those names you probably automatically think about women’s suffrage. The women’s suffrage movement in the United States was led by far more than the usual names, though. There were women of every color, ethnicity, race, and sexuality that fought hard for universal women’s suffrage.…
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Superheroines of the Civil War
Throughout history, including during the American Civil War, women had and made choices. We can’t tell stories by downplaying women in our complicated and messy history. Using women of the Civil War, as a vehicle, Tracy Garrison Feinberg and I discuss empowerment, agency, and purpose. Women’s drive to improve society in many ways gives…
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett, American Hero
As I continue to reflect on women’s history month, civic action, equality, and a democratic society (among other things), I couldn’t help but write and speak about Ida B. Wells-Barnett this week. Recently, Melissa Gomez of the Los Angeles times reached out to teachers, including me, to talk to us about how we are teaching…
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Book Recommendation: Bring History and Civics to Life:
Do I have an awesome book for you to preorder! You can hear all about it in my latest podcast, linked in the above menu or you can listen to the embedded episode OR you can listen from wherever you stream podcasts. In the latest book review episode, I talk to Karalee Wong Nakatsuka and…
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Italian Immigration, Family Tradition, & Seeing Yourself
It is Christmas Eve Eve and I’m preparing myself for the behemoth task of Italian-American Christmas Eve. To me, Christmas Eve traditions have always been more important than those on Christmas Day. I vividly remember my Grandma cutting bulb after bulb of garlic (That’s right. I didn’t say clove. I said bulb.). She used to…
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History in the Kitchen: Key Lime Pie
Fun fact: My favorite pie is key lime pie. There is a pie store (called The Pie Store) in Montclair, New Jersey that makes the best key lime pie, but today I decided I was going to make my own. Why? Well, I started looking into the history of key lime pie and I found…
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Useful Classroom Resources- USI
Over the course of this very busy year, I’ve been working hard and collaborating with other teachers to develop tools for my classroom that can be used in a virtual, hybrid, or in-person world. The purpose of this post is to share some of them with you so that you can use them this year,…
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Ancient Egypt Unit – Chicken Mummification
Teaching and learning should be fun and interesting, and few things have piqued my 5th grade ancient civilization classes’ interest more than mummifying a chicken. There’s something about this project that they just can’t keep their eyes or ears away from, and every year my students come away from it knowing the mummification process and…