History Matters #323 How do you keep power when you don’t have the majority and you don’t have the votes? Follow the Federalists in 1790s, use of power by other means to grab back political power: 👩🏻‍⚖️Courts 🎭 Culture 👩🏻‍🏫 Classrooms Thanks @jbf1755.bsky.social @mapm8ker.bsky.social

🇺🇸If you only look at the happy things, you are eliminating the struggle. 🇺🇸We are the struggle. 🇺🇸Democracy is the struggle. 🇺🇸I believe we can be better than we’ve been. 2/fini History Matters. Catch the recording. Thanks @jbf1755.bsky.social @mapm8ker.bsky.social

Happy History Matters episode #332 🇺🇸There is no one way to love your country. 🇺🇸Claiming you can’t love your country if you acknowledge certain things about it, that is highly problematic, a flawed way of understanding love. 🇺🇸Loving your country includes loving all of it. 1/

We’re in Hamilton Heaven! Today we enjoyed Richard Brookhiser’s presentation: “Hamilton’s Three Islands” in the perfect setting: Frances Tavern. Also learned that new research states that Hamilton’s birth year was 1754. Thoughts? @jbf1755.bsky.social @stephenknott.bsky.social #FoundingForward

Thanks @jbf1755.bsky.social for a most excellent day with you, Jefferson, and Hamilton. It always a pleasure and an honor to learn from you my history hero, mentor, and friend. Until the next time we meet irl💚

Greetings from History Frog🐸, busy learning at Founding Forward Hamilton. Enjoyed @stephenknott.bsky.social presentations. And hoppily waiting for @jbf1755.bsky.social (FYI Jefferson has taken a bit of a hit so far, waiting for Joanne to share her insights on both Hamilton and Jefferson! )

It was awesome! Thanks!

This day, this year is about us. There is a simple fact that we are a we and we want better than this. And that matters. I see this day as our day. 2/

History Matters #329 We are a we. What is a nation but a we? We become ever more united in the face of opposition. The spirit of today is about us. The powers that be can’t steal this day because they don’t own it. It’s about the birth of the nation and the nation is us. 1/

History Matters episode #319 Who are the Radicals? Check out the recording and learn how the past informs our present. Thanks @jbf1755.bsky.social @mapm8ker.bsky.social

Democracy is our ability to embrace diversity and dissention. It’s the fact that we don’t all have to agree. But we can agree that there is a We. We agree to certain things we want to be bound by, empathy, the Constitution, the rule of law… 2/

HM #318 In all of its complexities, the fact that We are all here, and that we can come together at moments and share in some kind of joy, that gets beyond partisanship, This is America in its complexity, in its diversity, in its ability to come together with joy, even when it's divided. 1/

What it shows, not just in an ethereal symbolic way, what it explicitly shows about this regime. It’s worth being aware of that. They are showing who and what they are. We have to listen to that message and understand what it means. 2/fini Thanks @jbf1755.bsky.social @mapm8ker.bsky.social

History Matters #317 This travesty is so representative in so many ways, politically, symbolically, emotionally, demographically; it says so much about where we are. It’s worth pausing to consider, not just what we think about this event. It is worth pausing to consider what it means. 1/

History Matters episode 316 The norm of the rule of law safeguards the liberty of all of us. The rule of law holds everything together. Thanks @jbf1755.bsky.social @mapm8ker.bsky.social *Joanne realized she also could/should have used her Hillary mug. (Thus the quick photo.)

History Matters episode #315 Culture is political Emotions sway us Culture matters, we should always pay attention to it. Protesting matters. Thanks @jbf1755.bsky.social @mapm8ker.bsky.social

“Contingency is the mother of possibility.” - @HippieEcho quoted by Joanne Freeman. Thanks @jbf1755.bsky.social beaming in pre-recorded from Alaska for the History Matters Community! With a mug!

History Matters #314 China is in many ways a mirror of the United States. It will reveal a lot. Catch the recording. Thanks @jbf1755.bsky.social @mapm8ker.bsky.social

History Matters Episode #313 Listen and learn why we needed/need the Voting Rights Act. History Matters. Thanks @jbf1755.bsky.social @mapm8ker.bsky.social

Ep 312 We have the right as Americans to try, in a non-rigged system to shape the destiny of our nation. The government is grounded on us. In a real democratic government, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. The idea that WE have the right to vote and that our votes should count, matters.

History Matters #311 Corruption is not new. You have to clearly state that corruption is not acceptable. Americans need to see that the government is actually functioning. Check out the recording. Thanks @jbf1755.bsky.social @mapm8ker.bsky.social

When we vote, We will be voting for what we want going ahead. We are going to be voting for what kind of justice, what kind of government we want going ahead. We can’t wait til november to do things But what happens in November matters a lot. Thanks @jbf1755.bsky.social @mapm8ker.bsky.social

History Matters #308 What The People think about the Constitution matters. It’s a pact that joins and creates We The People and the union as well. Thanks @jbf1755.bsky.social @mapm8ker.bsky.social

History Matters #307 A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Thanks @jbf1755.bsky.social @mapm8ker.bsky.social

Episode #306 Manhood as political power. Check out the conversation. Thanks @jbf1755.bsky.social @mapm8ker.bsky.social

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History Matters #305 Can public change public opinion on warfare? Being against military action and being loud about it and pushing back, it matters. We the people matter in ways we don’t realize, in ways we haven’t figured out how to deploy yet. TY @jbf1755.bsky.social @mapm8ker.bsky.social

History Matters Episode #304 The State of the Nation: 👉🏻We the people are strong. 👉🏻We understand the mission at hand. 👉🏻We are a majority. 👉🏻We are proving ourselves willing to defend democracy. Thanks @jbf1755.bsky.social @mapm8ker.bsky.social

History (Frog 🐸) Hack #7 I kept having trouble adjusting my doc cam, and I also needed a smooth writing surface. I finally taped everything down—doc cam and a white board for my writing surface. I’m so happy with the results and I’m not fighting with my doc cam arrangement anymore.

History (Frog 🐸) Hack #6 Clipboards are your friend, especially when students complete work during #CommunityCircles