HistorySmith
@historysmith.bsky.social
Teaching APAfAmStudies and APUSH. Taught Gov, Econ, Philosophy, and US History. Believing strongly in the 1st and 14th Amendments; and that the 19th took too damn long. #HATM #WillWork4Democracy #IKnowTheWayToSanJose (he/him)
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HistorySmith
@historysmith.bsky.social
· May 10
If you’re over 30, quote this with some life advice 🤌🏼
Don’t vote for fascists.
Played Scarface 1920 w Bloody Business expansion. Wow, it’s a lot of game mechanics… complex but very, very fun.
Capone eked out control of Chicago despite the Red Dragons domination with the opium and the Rothstein gang’s ongoing kidnap & ransom racket. 🤓
#boardgsmes @redzengames.bsky.social
Capone eked out control of Chicago despite the Red Dragons domination with the opium and the Rothstein gang’s ongoing kidnap & ransom racket. 🤓
#boardgsmes @redzengames.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Played Scarface 1920 w Bloody Business expansion. Wow, it’s a lot of game mechanics… complex but very, very fun.
Capone eked out control of Chicago despite the Red Dragons domination with the opium and the Rothstein gang’s ongoing kidnap & ransom racket. 🤓
#boardgsmes @redzengames.bsky.social
Capone eked out control of Chicago despite the Red Dragons domination with the opium and the Rothstein gang’s ongoing kidnap & ransom racket. 🤓
#boardgsmes @redzengames.bsky.social
🤬 fascist collaborators.
1. In Tennessee, public libraries have closed for up to a week to facilitate a Trump-inspired book purge.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes…
popular.info
November 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
🤬 fascist collaborators.
Yeah, listen to the smart lady…
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Yeah, listen to the smart lady…
Reposted by HistorySmith
The barn in Mississippi where 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and killed will open to the public as a “sacred” memorial site by 2030.
New owner to open Mississippi barn where Emmett Till was killed as a memorial site
The barn in Mississippi where 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and killed will open to the public as a “sacred” memorial site by 2030.
trib.al
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The barn in Mississippi where 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and killed will open to the public as a “sacred” memorial site by 2030.
Late post for #HATM. Someone else shared the obit, but this quote seems very on point for the ice cream incident in tonight’s film.
In memos later made public, the F.B.I. director, J. Edgar Hoover, ordered his agents to begin arresting Mr. Al-Amin and other S.N.C.C. leaders “on every possible charge until they could no longer make bail.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Late post for #HATM. Someone else shared the obit, but this quote seems very on point for the ice cream incident in tonight’s film.
The Rainbow Coalition before Jesse Jackson borrowed the phrase in the 1980s
#HATM
#HATM
This was part of the brilliance (and the perceived danger) of the Black Panther ideology. While they focused themselves on Black uplift, they also saw the work as part of a class struggle and were willing to make alliances with other racial groups facing similar class struggles. #HATM
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The Rainbow Coalition before Jesse Jackson borrowed the phrase in the 1980s
#HATM
#HATM
This was part of the brilliance (and the perceived danger) of the Black Panther ideology. While they focused themselves on Black uplift, they also saw the work as part of a class struggle and were willing to make alliances with other racial groups facing similar class struggles. #HATM
November 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
This was part of the brilliance (and the perceived danger) of the Black Panther ideology. While they focused themselves on Black uplift, they also saw the work as part of a class struggle and were willing to make alliances with other racial groups facing similar class struggles. #HATM
"I'm all for civil rights but you can't cheat your way to equality."
Subtext:
We can cheat you out of it, but we'll be damned if we let you 'cheat' to get it.
#HATM
Subtext:
We can cheat you out of it, but we'll be damned if we let you 'cheat' to get it.
#HATM
November 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
"I'm all for civil rights but you can't cheat your way to equality."
Subtext:
We can cheat you out of it, but we'll be damned if we let you 'cheat' to get it.
#HATM
Subtext:
We can cheat you out of it, but we'll be damned if we let you 'cheat' to get it.
#HATM
@kcarterjackson.bsky.social describes five types of resistance in her book "We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance"
- Revolution
- Force
- Protection
- Flight
- Joy
I think you can find evidence of all five in the story of the Black Panther Party. They were a complex movement. #HATM
- Revolution
- Force
- Protection
- Flight
- Joy
I think you can find evidence of all five in the story of the Black Panther Party. They were a complex movement. #HATM
November 24, 2025 at 1:22 AM
@kcarterjackson.bsky.social describes five types of resistance in her book "We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance"
- Revolution
- Force
- Protection
- Flight
- Joy
I think you can find evidence of all five in the story of the Black Panther Party. They were a complex movement. #HATM
- Revolution
- Force
- Protection
- Flight
- Joy
I think you can find evidence of all five in the story of the Black Panther Party. They were a complex movement. #HATM
An important contextual note:
Fred Hampton was 21 the year he was murdered.
The charisma, organizational skills, and political acumen that he had at 21 is ridiculous. It's almost unimaginable to think of what he might have accomplished...
#HATM
Fred Hampton was 21 the year he was murdered.
The charisma, organizational skills, and political acumen that he had at 21 is ridiculous. It's almost unimaginable to think of what he might have accomplished...
#HATM
November 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
An important contextual note:
Fred Hampton was 21 the year he was murdered.
The charisma, organizational skills, and political acumen that he had at 21 is ridiculous. It's almost unimaginable to think of what he might have accomplished...
#HATM
Fred Hampton was 21 the year he was murdered.
The charisma, organizational skills, and political acumen that he had at 21 is ridiculous. It's almost unimaginable to think of what he might have accomplished...
#HATM
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I think I need to read more about James Forten. #HATM
James Forten - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I think I need to read more about James Forten. #HATM
-How many sieges 'ave you done?
-Zero.
-I 'ave done 14.
- That woudl be more, then.
[Transcript of conversation between Washington & Rochambeau outside Yorktown]
#HATM
-Zero.
-I 'ave done 14.
- That woudl be more, then.
[Transcript of conversation between Washington & Rochambeau outside Yorktown]
#HATM
November 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM
-How many sieges 'ave you done?
-Zero.
-I 'ave done 14.
- That woudl be more, then.
[Transcript of conversation between Washington & Rochambeau outside Yorktown]
#HATM
-Zero.
-I 'ave done 14.
- That woudl be more, then.
[Transcript of conversation between Washington & Rochambeau outside Yorktown]
#HATM
I really hate the hypocrisy of gradual emancipation plans.
It's like, "yeah we know it's wrong, but you really can't expect us to give the free labor, but y'all give us credit for ending it, right?" 😒
#HATM
It's like, "yeah we know it's wrong, but you really can't expect us to give the free labor, but y'all give us credit for ending it, right?" 😒
#HATM
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I really hate the hypocrisy of gradual emancipation plans.
It's like, "yeah we know it's wrong, but you really can't expect us to give the free labor, but y'all give us credit for ending it, right?" 😒
#HATM
It's like, "yeah we know it's wrong, but you really can't expect us to give the free labor, but y'all give us credit for ending it, right?" 😒
#HATM
Arnold's Motivations:
- anti-independence
- anti-catholic
- rank and status
- Peggy Shippen
None of that is really satisfying given Arnold's battlefield exploits for the Patriot cause.... but people are complex 🤷♂️
#HATM
- anti-independence
- anti-catholic
- rank and status
- Peggy Shippen
None of that is really satisfying given Arnold's battlefield exploits for the Patriot cause.... but people are complex 🤷♂️
#HATM
November 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Arnold's Motivations:
- anti-independence
- anti-catholic
- rank and status
- Peggy Shippen
None of that is really satisfying given Arnold's battlefield exploits for the Patriot cause.... but people are complex 🤷♂️
#HATM
- anti-independence
- anti-catholic
- rank and status
- Peggy Shippen
None of that is really satisfying given Arnold's battlefield exploits for the Patriot cause.... but people are complex 🤷♂️
#HATM
If one wants a story that's clean, and neat, with clear good and bad guys in the Revolution... South Carolina is not that story.
- Eminent Historian
It looks pretty clear cut to me.
- Mel Gibson
#HATM
- Eminent Historian
It looks pretty clear cut to me.
- Mel Gibson
#HATM
November 22, 2025 at 1:09 AM
If one wants a story that's clean, and neat, with clear good and bad guys in the Revolution... South Carolina is not that story.
- Eminent Historian
It looks pretty clear cut to me.
- Mel Gibson
#HATM
- Eminent Historian
It looks pretty clear cut to me.
- Mel Gibson
#HATM
In all the American Revolutioning going on this week, I missed what @herberthistory.bsky.social picked for this Sunday.
I jumped over to the Insta and was pleasantly surprised to find that Judas and the Black Messiah is queued up for Sunday night #HATM
I’ve been wanting to watch it again 🤓
I jumped over to the Insta and was pleasantly surprised to find that Judas and the Black Messiah is queued up for Sunday night #HATM
I’ve been wanting to watch it again 🤓
November 22, 2025 at 12:46 AM
In all the American Revolutioning going on this week, I missed what @herberthistory.bsky.social picked for this Sunday.
I jumped over to the Insta and was pleasantly surprised to find that Judas and the Black Messiah is queued up for Sunday night #HATM
I’ve been wanting to watch it again 🤓
I jumped over to the Insta and was pleasantly surprised to find that Judas and the Black Messiah is queued up for Sunday night #HATM
I’ve been wanting to watch it again 🤓
Getting ready to watch Ken Burns' American Revolution final episode with #HATM at 5pm PST.
Really wondering how the war will end... Who wins? Does the ship run into the iceberg and sink? Such suspense!
Really wondering how the war will end... Who wins? Does the ship run into the iceberg and sink? Such suspense!
a man wearing a top hat and a purple jacket is eating a chocolate bar .
Alt: a man wearing a top hat and a purple jacket is eating a chocolate bar .
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Getting ready to watch Ken Burns' American Revolution final episode with #HATM at 5pm PST.
Really wondering how the war will end... Who wins? Does the ship run into the iceberg and sink? Such suspense!
Really wondering how the war will end... Who wins? Does the ship run into the iceberg and sink? Such suspense!
Okay, while this episode is moving faster than the prior episode... there are way too many quick asides that I think would benefit from more context and explanation. I think they've gone too far the other way and are trying to cover too much in this episode. KB needs to find a balance. #HATM
November 21, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Okay, while this episode is moving faster than the prior episode... there are way too many quick asides that I think would benefit from more context and explanation. I think they've gone too far the other way and are trying to cover too much in this episode. KB needs to find a balance. #HATM