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Steven Maher

@smaher24.bsky.social

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30-year history education veteran & amateur chronographer, still checking footnotes and looking for answers. Thoughts are mine alone and do not reflect those of my employer. Sharing ideas and lessons at https://infinitude.maherpages.net/

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Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 12h

National Socialism

Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 20h

Chicago has more people than Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North and South Dakota, and Delaware combined. People in Chicago share two senators with 7 million other people in Illinois. Those smaller states have 12 senators all to themselves.

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Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 20h

Social Studies teachers talking with students about events in Chicago should make note of the fact that Cook County Illinois is home to more than 5 million people, a population greater than each of 26 states.

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Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 1d

An information war

Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 3d

Here's part of The Petition of Right in delivered to King Charles I in 1628, referencing Parliament's restriction of King Edward III's authority in 1340, laws and events familiar to the founders when they anchored our government on the rule of law. Close to 700 years of law are under attack today.

Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 4d

"The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit." FDR

Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 4d

I'd go with "embarasing"

Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 5d

Serious question - "Have you no sense of decency?" The clarity of the law is unquestionable, yet you insist on writing it isn't. Do you lack any sense of the values of propriety, honesty and integrity or do you simply dismiss them at your employers insistence?

Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 5d

Paul Revere wouldn't
even get a shrug

Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 6d

They got off too easy for "weapons of mass destruction"

Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 7d

"No free man shall be seized or imprisoned or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land." Magna Carta

Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks for the book reference

Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 8d

Came across these clauses from the Magna Carta while reading Richard Ovenden's "Burning the Books" - made we wonder if the Supreme Court has a copy. We're witnessing more than the destruction of a system of rights developed in 1789 - we're watching the ones from 1215 evaporate before our very eyes

Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 8d

Where exactly is that money right now?

Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 9d

The DoD defines information superiority as “the capability to collect, process, disseminate an uninterrupted flow of information to achieve or promote specific objectives over a specific enemy while exploiting or denying that ability to the enemy.” www.c4i.org/jp3_13.pdf Is this an information war?

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Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 9d

Most HS history teachers fail to take their students much farther than an inaccurate trickle-down economics Reagan lesson a life in the 80s project in the last week of school. They talk more about the cotton gin than the internet. Shouldn't the Iraq war get as much time as the Spanish American War?

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Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 9d

If only the NYTimes got that sorta treatment

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Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 10d

Finding a mistake in a textbook is like finding tool you didn't know you had, but desperately need. Elementary school teachers looking for a good Social Studies lesson for next week can use a mistaken definition of "Geography" as a tool to help students think in abstract ways tinyurl.com/mr3yb2sa

Textbook Mistakes Help 4th Graders Think – Infinitude

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Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 12d

The Talmud is wrong? Plato's Symposium is wrong? The American Medical Association is wrong? American Psychological Association? Supreme Court of India? Australian Bureau of Statistics? US District Judge Ana C. Reyes? You have to reject a lot of sources to force an ideology of just two genders.

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Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 12d

"Come on, you rascals, you bloody backs, you lobster scoundrels, fire if you dare".

Paul Revere's woodcut of the Boston Massacre

Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 12d

Sounds like the parent meeting with a HS teacher, "I know what I'm talking about, I majored in history"

Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 13d

Another learning opportunity for US teachers to add to their slidedeck

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 13d

The MAGA monocultural revolution is so thorough that Hegseth made it a priority to honor soldiers who carried out war crimes in 1890.

Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 13d

Social Studies teachers who want to use this with students will need the complete source - here it is tinyurl.com/advyt4se

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Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 13d

Bertrand Russell was a thinker, Ezra Klein writes and talks to be read and listened to, which explains his promotion of more talking. Intellectual references, sophisticated vocabulary, and complex sentence structures are just wrappers of a business model not different than Jerry Springer

Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 14d

Saving both for a high school DBQ, thanks for sharing