Growing up in Germany, Katharina Matro “was confronted with my country’s history without mercy. It’s made me a more informed citizen, a more politically aware citizen, a more critical thinker.” #FreedomToLearn #HonestHistory 🗃️
Teaching with Integrity: Confronting a Nation's Past
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April 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Growing up in Germany, Katharina Matro “was confronted with my country’s history without mercy. It’s made me a more informed citizen, a more politically aware citizen, a more critical thinker.” #FreedomToLearn #HonestHistory 🗃️
High school teacher Katharina Matro explains how growing up in Germany and learning about the country’s past “made me a more informed citizen, a more politically aware citizen, a more critical thinker.” #FreedomToLearn #HonestHistory 🗃️
Teaching with Integrity: Confronting a Nation's Past
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November 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
High school teacher Katharina Matro explains how growing up in Germany and learning about the country’s past “made me a more informed citizen, a more politically aware citizen, a more critical thinker.” #FreedomToLearn #HonestHistory 🗃️
History teacher Katharina Matro on how growing up in Germany and learning about the country’s past “made me a more informed citizen, a more politically aware citizen, a more critical thinker.” #FreedomToLearn #HonestHistory
Teaching with Integrity: Confronting a Nation's Past
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August 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
History teacher Katharina Matro on how growing up in Germany and learning about the country’s past “made me a more informed citizen, a more politically aware citizen, a more critical thinker.” #FreedomToLearn #HonestHistory
The #FreedomToLearn our nation’s history is under siege. The AHA combats bills restricting history education and provides resources and support for educators advocating for #HonestHistory. Learn more about our Teaching History with Integrity initiatives. 🗃️
Teaching History with Integrity | American Historical Association
AHA initiatives providing resources and support for history educators facing intensifying controversies about the teaching of the American past.
www.historians.org
November 13, 2024 at 9:39 PM
The #FreedomToLearn our nation’s history is under siege. The AHA combats bills restricting history education and provides resources and support for educators advocating for #HonestHistory. Learn more about our Teaching History with Integrity initiatives. 🗃️
Growing up in Germany, Katharina Matro (Council Member, AHA Teaching Division) “was confronted with my country’s history without mercy. It’s made me a more informed citizen, a more politically aware citizen, a more critical thinker.” #FreedomToLearn #HonestHistory 🗃️
Teaching with Integrity: Confronting a Nation's Past
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November 19, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Growing up in Germany, Katharina Matro (Council Member, AHA Teaching Division) “was confronted with my country’s history without mercy. It’s made me a more informed citizen, a more politically aware citizen, a more critical thinker.” #FreedomToLearn #HonestHistory 🗃️
The U.S. has always been a place where liberty was conditional—on race, status, wealth, or whatever excuse the powerful came up with. Canada? That’s where you went when America shut the door.
#blackhistorymonth #publichistory #honesthistory
#blackhistorymonth #publichistory #honesthistory
Tariff Tantrum: Why Americans Have Always Looked to Canada for Freedom
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February 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The U.S. has always been a place where liberty was conditional—on race, status, wealth, or whatever excuse the powerful came up with. Canada? That’s where you went when America shut the door.
#blackhistorymonth #publichistory #honesthistory
#blackhistorymonth #publichistory #honesthistory
The #FreedomToLearn our nation’s history is under siege. The AHA combats bills restricting history education and provides resources and support for educators advocating for #HonestHistory. Learn more about our Teaching History with Integrity initiatives. 🗃️
Teaching History with Integrity | American Historical Association
AHA initiatives providing resources and support for history educators facing intensifying controversies about the teaching of the American past.
www.historians.org
February 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The #FreedomToLearn our nation’s history is under siege. The AHA combats bills restricting history education and provides resources and support for educators advocating for #HonestHistory. Learn more about our Teaching History with Integrity initiatives. 🗃️
Trumps quote from Napoleon signals the end of the constitution. We are way past a constitutional crisis.
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#resistancehistory #publichistory #historymatters #honesthistory #resistance #AmericanRevolution #america250
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February 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Trumps quote from Napoleon signals the end of the constitution. We are way past a constitutional crisis.
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As part of the #FreedomToLearn initiative, the AHA responds directly to legislation that would restrict history education. Visit our website for a full list of letters sent by the AHA in response to such legislation. #HonestHistory 🗃️
Freedom to Learn | American Historical Association
The AHA’s Freedom to Learn initiative educates historians and others on how to advocate publicly for honest history education, responds directly to the bills themselves, and creates resources.
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April 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
As part of the #FreedomToLearn initiative, the AHA responds directly to legislation that would restrict history education. Visit our website for a full list of letters sent by the AHA in response to such legislation. #HonestHistory 🗃️
Newsflash: Ken Burns isn’t public history. Or at least his films aren’t good, or even acceptable, public history. #publichistory
Replying to @MamaSuSu 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️ #kenburns #honesthistory #georgewashington #thomasjefferson #benjaminfranklin #patriots #storytelling @Rachael Keri Williams @Black At You
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January 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Newsflash: Ken Burns isn’t public history. Or at least his films aren’t good, or even acceptable, public history. #publichistory
Check out the Block friends. For those of you used to what we do, this is about honest history. For Seth Cotlar, it’s “agree or be blocked.” See what we’re up against, right or left, regardless of platform? #honesthistory
“Yet he knew he wasn’t above the law”. “…surely those folks knew the score.” Turning that moment, and his subsequent treatment of Ona Judge, into a positive case study takes some real manipulation of the historical context. But that’s precisely what these people do.
January 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Check out the Block friends. For those of you used to what we do, this is about honest history. For Seth Cotlar, it’s “agree or be blocked.” See what we’re up against, right or left, regardless of platform? #honesthistory
AHA staff have testified before state legislatures and boards of education in support of the teaching of #HonestHistory. “You cannot censor your way to great schools,” testified senior program analyst Julia Brookins before Texas SBOE. #FreedomToLearn 🗃️
AHA Testimony Before Legislatures and Boards of Education - AHA
AHA staff have testified before state legislatures and boards of education in support of the teaching of honest history. Julia Brookins, Texas State Board of Education November 22, 2024 Julia Brooki...
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February 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
AHA staff have testified before state legislatures and boards of education in support of the teaching of #HonestHistory. “You cannot censor your way to great schools,” testified senior program analyst Julia Brookins before Texas SBOE. #FreedomToLearn 🗃️
The “original sin” of slavery? The “founding promise” of equality from the Patriots? Neither hold up. These myths whitewash the messy, deliberate truths of America’s founding.
#HonestHistory #PublicHistory
America's "Original Sin" vs. its "Founding Promise": Neither Are True
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#HonestHistory #PublicHistory
America's "Original Sin" vs. its "Founding Promise": Neither Are True
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America's "Original Sin" vs. its "Founding Promise": Neither Are True
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December 9, 2024 at 9:06 PM
The “original sin” of slavery? The “founding promise” of equality from the Patriots? Neither hold up. These myths whitewash the messy, deliberate truths of America’s founding.
#HonestHistory #PublicHistory
America's "Original Sin" vs. its "Founding Promise": Neither Are True
youtu.be/_Jc8l8b2jFY
#HonestHistory #PublicHistory
America's "Original Sin" vs. its "Founding Promise": Neither Are True
youtu.be/_Jc8l8b2jFY
Growing up in Germany, Katharina Matro “was confronted with my country’s history without mercy. It’s made me a more informed citizen, a more politically aware citizen, a more critical thinker.” #FreedomToLearn #HonestHistory
Teaching with Integrity: Confronting a Nation's Past
YouTube video by American Historical Association
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May 4, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Growing up in Germany, Katharina Matro “was confronted with my country’s history without mercy. It’s made me a more informed citizen, a more politically aware citizen, a more critical thinker.” #FreedomToLearn #HonestHistory
The #FreedomToLearn our nation’s history is under siege. The AHA combats bills restricting history education and provides resources and support for educators advocating for #HonestHistory. Learn more about our Teaching History with Integrity initiatives. 🗃️
Teaching History with Integrity | American Historical Association
AHA initiatives providing resources and support for history educators facing intensifying controversies about the teaching of the American past.
www.historians.org
May 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The #FreedomToLearn our nation’s history is under siege. The AHA combats bills restricting history education and provides resources and support for educators advocating for #HonestHistory. Learn more about our Teaching History with Integrity initiatives. 🗃️
AHA staff have testified before state legislatures and boards of education in support of the teaching of #HonestHistory. “You cannot censor your way to great schools,” testified senior program analyst Julia Brookins before Texas SBOE. #FreedomToLearn 🗃️
AHA Testimony Before Legislatures and Boards of Education - AHA
AHA staff have testified before state legislatures and boards of education in support of the teaching of honest history. Julia Brookins, Texas State Board of Education November 22, 2024 Julia Brooki...
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July 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
AHA staff have testified before state legislatures and boards of education in support of the teaching of #HonestHistory. “You cannot censor your way to great schools,” testified senior program analyst Julia Brookins before Texas SBOE. #FreedomToLearn 🗃️
We have always been #StrongerTogether!!
#Equality #Justice #Kindness #Love #Science #HonestHistory #Truth are not dangerous concepts, unless you have something to hide.
#Equality #Justice #Kindness #Love #Science #HonestHistory #Truth are not dangerous concepts, unless you have something to hide.
December 28, 2024 at 4:28 PM
We have always been #StrongerTogether!!
#Equality #Justice #Kindness #Love #Science #HonestHistory #Truth are not dangerous concepts, unless you have something to hide.
#Equality #Justice #Kindness #Love #Science #HonestHistory #Truth are not dangerous concepts, unless you have something to hide.
The #FreedomToLearn our nation’s history is under siege. The AHA combats bills restricting history education and provides resources and support for educators advocating for #HonestHistory. Learn more about our Teaching History with Integrity initiatives.
Teaching History with Integrity | American Historical Association
AHA initiatives providing resources and support for history educators facing intensifying controversies about the teaching of the American past.
www.historians.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The #FreedomToLearn our nation’s history is under siege. The AHA combats bills restricting history education and provides resources and support for educators advocating for #HonestHistory. Learn more about our Teaching History with Integrity initiatives.
AHA staff have testified before state legislatures and boards of education in support of the teaching of #HonestHistory. “You cannot censor your way to great schools,” testified special projects coordinator Julia Brookins before the Texas SBOE. Read her testimony in full and more on our website. 🗃️
AHA Testimony Before Legislatures and Boards of Education
AHA staff have testified before state legislatures and boards of education in support of the teaching of honest history.
www.historians.org
January 16, 2024 at 3:42 PM
AHA staff have testified before state legislatures and boards of education in support of the teaching of #HonestHistory. “You cannot censor your way to great schools,” testified special projects coordinator Julia Brookins before the Texas SBOE. Read her testimony in full and more on our website. 🗃️
Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. today and always.
#oakwoodfriends #QuakerEd #MartinLutherKingJrDay #MLKLegacy #CivilRightsMovement #TruthAndJustice #HonestHistory #EqualityForAll #PeaceAndJustice
#oakwoodfriends #QuakerEd #MartinLutherKingJrDay #MLKLegacy #CivilRightsMovement #TruthAndJustice #HonestHistory #EqualityForAll #PeaceAndJustice
January 19, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. today and always.
#oakwoodfriends #QuakerEd #MartinLutherKingJrDay #MLKLegacy #CivilRightsMovement #TruthAndJustice #HonestHistory #EqualityForAll #PeaceAndJustice
#oakwoodfriends #QuakerEd #MartinLutherKingJrDay #MLKLegacy #CivilRightsMovement #TruthAndJustice #HonestHistory #EqualityForAll #PeaceAndJustice
A case study in preemptive conformity/obedience in advance from the heritage tourism industry, courtesy of Mount Vernon.
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#stitch with @George Washington's Mt. Vernon #honesthistory #publichistory #patriotmyth #gwmountvernon #georgewashington
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November 16, 2024 at 5:04 PM
A case study in preemptive conformity/obedience in advance from the heritage tourism industry, courtesy of Mount Vernon.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTY8FDbXj/
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The lessons you should learn are that the revolution has already begun. It’s just that most people don’t realize it yet. And, we should NEVER go back to the government as it was or we will end up back here again. Out of this must come the next American Republic. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2pY7u2V/
Replying to @CINDY proud liberal 💙 #resistance #resistancehistory #starwars #americanrevolution #honesthistory #publichistory
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March 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The lessons you should learn are that the revolution has already begun. It’s just that most people don’t realize it yet. And, we should NEVER go back to the government as it was or we will end up back here again. Out of this must come the next American Republic. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2pY7u2V/