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Adam Stensgaard
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I'm a historian who specializes in US politics/presidents. Adjunct History Instructor at Community College of Denver. I'm an EdD student focusing on alternative grading systems that can help limit student stress and optimize student success.
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spot on, Lorax

🥺
July 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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#OnThisDay in 1848, the first formal women’s rights convention occurs in Seneca Falls, N.Y. This rare printing of the Declaration of Sentiments includes the minutes from the convention. See it in our exhibit #HowWomenWonTheVote.

Credit: Anonymous Collection
July 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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#OnThisDay in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln is shot while watching a play at Ford’s Theatre.

Learn more about the assassination with #ConstitutionDaily: ow.ly/ZCxk50VwQI7
10 facts about Abraham Lincoln’s assassination
It was on this day in 1865 that President Abraham Lincoln was shot while watching a play at Ford’s Theater. Lincoln died the next morning, and in the aftermath, some odd facts seemed to pop up.
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April 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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#OnThisDay in 1995, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor becomes the first woman to preside over #SCOTUS, when she sat in for Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who was out of town.

Read about her role in landmark cases on #ConstitutionDaily: ow.ly/8BGG50VsmSV
Sandra Day O’Connor’s role in landmark Supreme Court cases
The late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor played a key role in some of the Supreme Court’s major decisions during her nearly 25 years on the bench. Here is a look at several of those cases involving the first woman to serve on the Court, including decisions about the First Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, affirmative action, abortion, and the 10th Amendment.
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April 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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RFK is killing people. Cutting funding for Cancer, Alzheimer’s, Women’s Health, HIV/AIDS is not making America Healthy.
April 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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“I’m scared too, but fear is a necessary precondition to courage!” - Sen. Cory Booker

👏👏👏
#goodtrouble
#standup
#resist

@booker.senate.gov
April 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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#OnThisDay in 1931, Ida B. Wells, an influential civil rights crusader and suffragist, dies.

This #WomensHistoryMonth, read her essay sharing the horrifying details of lynchings in the #FoundersLibrary: ow.ly/YMqp50VjWh5
Self-Help (1892)
National Constitution Center Historic Documents Library record for Self-Help (1892)
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March 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Thomas McKean, who served in the Continental Congress as a representative from Delaware while also serving as chief justice of Pennsylvania, is born #OnThisDay in 1734.

Learn more about McKean’s constitutional legacy on #ConstitutionDaily: ow.ly/5HQm50VjTB2
Thomas McKean: A Founding Father with a double life
Thomas McKean was a President before George Washington and supported judicial review before John Marshall. But today, McKean is mostly forgotten in the discussion about Founders who had a significant impact on the Constitution and the early Supreme Court.
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March 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.

This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.

Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.

And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
March 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Donald Trump is lying to you.
March 5, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Bought this little book upon its release. Thought we had survived the warning.

But the boomerang came back with lightning speed. Tyranny has arrived.
February 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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See you soon, Kansas social studies!
January 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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This fantastic piece by Stewart Patrick is an excellent summary of the wrecking ball that Trump is taking to the entire international order crafted by Dem & Repub presidents over 80 yrs.

Who does this benefit?

The Kremlin, for certain. No one else.

carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
The Death of the World America Made
Donald Trump’s war on multilateralism is misguided and dangerous.
carnegieendowment.org
February 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Hey #educators in the Denver, CO area, please join @cherylabla.bsky.social & I at the annual MSU-Denver Author Book Fair on Jan. 31. We would love to meet you & chat about our book #Teachables.
@markwestonphd.bsky.social #teachers #principals
www.msudenver.edu/alumni/event...
January 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Please be aware that DJT signing an executive order with his sharpie doesn’t automatically make it law.

DON’T sleep on it.
But be aware.
January 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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An intro for news faces 👋!

I'm a presidential historian, author of a couple of books including *Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic*, and Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library.

And I have a four-legged sidekick who is my heart.
November 11, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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For those asking, you can find this morning’s conversation about the actual meaning of inaugurations here:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=XG07...
Inauguration Thoughts—and I Have Plenty
YouTube video by National Council for History Education
m.youtube.com
January 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM