Director of The History & Civics Project at UC Santa Cruz. PhD. History teacher, teacher educator, researcher, OAH Distinguished Lecturer, Michigan early women letter winnerhttps://bsky.app/profile/daisymsc.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/daisymsc.bsky.social/post/3mukceuicjs2oEducator liability insurance-that’s where we are folks. When teachers/profs need to be ready to defend themselves vs spurious lawsuits-individually no less.02 Sep 2026 15:56 +0000at://did:plc:wupnv3orkyfjbe47mc5vshas/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukceuicjs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/daisymsc.bsky.social/post/3mtff3jct4c2xHey educators-if you still use that media bias chart that rates sources-pls listen to this. #edsky #medialiteracy #teachinghistory https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scene-on-radio/id1036276968?i=100077203108418 Aug 2026 23:36 +0000at://did:plc:wupnv3orkyfjbe47mc5vshas/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtff3jct4c2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/daisymsc.bsky.social/post/3mtelxsb5k22wData/charts https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/08/18/opinion/trump-economy-campaign-promises.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6VA.Jdab.zHuBIO0As3FT&smid=nytcore-ios-share 🎁18 Aug 2026 16:07 +0000at://did:plc:wupnv3orkyfjbe47mc5vshas/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtelxsb5k22whttps://bsky.app/profile/daisymsc.bsky.social/post/3mtahr7foek2oI’m late but several concise statements in here re: the #humanities importance and today https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2026/08/03/humanities-risk-how-mellon-sees-its-role-opinion17 Aug 2026 00:41 +0000at://did:plc:wupnv3orkyfjbe47mc5vshas/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtahr7foek2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/daisymsc.bsky.social/post/3ms7ifh4s3k2n#teachinghistory check it out-a job close by!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Aug 2026 21:54 +0000at://did:plc:wupnv3orkyfjbe47mc5vshas/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms7ifh4s3k2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/daisymsc.bsky.social/post/3ms7ifh4s3k2n#teachinghistory check it out-a job close by!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Aug 2026 21:54 +0000at://did:plc:wupnv3orkyfjbe47mc5vshas/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms7ifh4s3k2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/daisymsc.bsky.social/post/3ms4r6gsjok2mAgainst “linguistic whitewashing” as “ritual of national forgetting” 🎁 article #teachReconstruction https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/opinion/civil-war-slaveholders-rebellion-slavery.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2VA.bbgV.XJtImv44oqGx&smid=nytcore-ios-share02 Aug 2026 19:54 +0000at://did:plc:wupnv3orkyfjbe47mc5vshas/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms4r6gsjok2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/daisymsc.bsky.social/post/3ms4gyqimek2gThis interview w @skyeperryman.bsky.social is well worth listening to-and good for thinking and teaching bout checks and balances and that they Still Exist! [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Aug 2026 16:51 +0000at://did:plc:wupnv3orkyfjbe47mc5vshas/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms4gyqimek2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/daisymsc.bsky.social/post/3mrynhznhj222“Stop Testing A.I. Like an App. Test It Like a Weapon.” 🎁 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/opinion/ai-weapon-testing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2FA.CxeK.TTQHPDDnVd5t&smid=nytcore-ios-share01 Aug 2026 04:37 +0000at://did:plc:wupnv3orkyfjbe47mc5vshas/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrynhznhj222https://bsky.app/profile/daisymsc.bsky.social/post/3mrsxgtzpx22cRead this cuz of my IATSE partner, stayed for the implications re:media and democracy, finished w it as another case study where large corps and their CEOs ruin another industry to steal more millions and billions. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jul 2026 22:19 +0000at://did:plc:wupnv3orkyfjbe47mc5vshas/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrsxgtzpx22chttps://bsky.app/profile/daisymsc.bsky.social/post/3mr73zohjns2vAt one point a GOP member asked what the most popular book of the Founders was…yes, u guessed it-then chided the DIrector to feature Paine’s Common Sense 🙄 like, uh, do u know what Paine thought abt such claptrack? @thomaspaineha.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Jul 2026 00:48 +0000at://did:plc:wupnv3orkyfjbe47mc5vshas/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr73zohjns2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/daisymsc.bsky.social/post/3mr6sn4k3ns2jPowerful. Standing up for our history and museums www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8tkoyMa/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Jul 2026 22:00 +0000at://did:plc:wupnv3orkyfjbe47mc5vshas/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr6sn4k3ns2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/daisymsc.bsky.social/post/3mr6a7pcyzs2rRespect and gratitude to Prof David Blight and Dir Anthea Hartig on representing history and truth telling abt our multiracial democracy’s shared past in Congress today. (& Blights correction of that wrong assertion abt US abolishing slavery-chefs kiss)21 Jul 2026 16:30 +0000at://did:plc:wupnv3orkyfjbe47mc5vshas/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr6a7pcyzs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/daisymsc.bsky.social/post/3mr65iptgyk2rWhen the questions asked by the GOP show they don’t understand history - but they are emasters of ideology and othering21 Jul 2026 15:42 +0000at://did:plc:wupnv3orkyfjbe47mc5vshas/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr65iptgyk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/daisymsc.bsky.social/post/3mr64qprfwc2r“if you erase it, we will replace it” - Hon Rep @repkweisimfume.bsky.social -bringing me to tears. #teachhistory21 Jul 2026 15:28 +0000at://did:plc:wupnv3orkyfjbe47mc5vshas/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr64qprfwc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/daisymsc.bsky.social/post/3mqd7sqfqvk2oAppreciating Professors @lmpanich.bsky.social @rizzomartinez.bsky.social and Jonathan Cordero’s comments in here as well as Val Lopez’s. And pls look for the Critical Missions Handbook coming soon from UC Press to hear more. [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Jul 2026 22:41 +0000at://did:plc:wupnv3orkyfjbe47mc5vshas/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqd7sqfqvk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/daisymsc.bsky.social/post/3mpzcw4yap22mAsterix!!07 Jul 2026 00:10 +0000at://did:plc:wupnv3orkyfjbe47mc5vshas/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpzcw4yap22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/daisymsc.bsky.social/post/3mpmmqulvik24“It was in the hands of abolitionists, Black &white, carried over from Black Americans free, freed and enslaved, that the Declaration worked as both an indictment & a promise — the spiritual foundation of the nation and the standard that its institutions must meet. 🎁 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/opinion/declaration-independence-jefferson-douglass-lincoln.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uVA.SLeg.t9BjIoNECi5r&smid=nytcore-ios-share01 Jul 2026 23:01 +0000at://did:plc:wupnv3orkyfjbe47mc5vshas/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpmmqulvik24https://bsky.app/profile/daisymsc.bsky.social/post/3mpp5ifxrps2oRead this. #publichistory #sschat First part is resonant w attacks on educators -coordinated, the extremists will tell u what to think- & I was struck by her description of one exhibit that broadened/corrected the site’s story telling as “restrained”-standsin stark contrast to the extremists’ work [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Jul 2026 23:06 +0000at://did:plc:wupnv3orkyfjbe47mc5vshas/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpp5ifxrps2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/daisymsc.bsky.social/post/3mpp56xntcs2oJust emailed my comment abt usps proposed rule to extort states’ voter rolls and limit mail in voting-last day! Do it now :) https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/06/02/2026-10968/ballot-mail-for-federal-elections02 Jul 2026 23:01 +0000at://did:plc:wupnv3orkyfjbe47mc5vshas/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpp56xntcs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/daisymsc.bsky.social/post/3mpmmqulvik24“It was in the hands of abolitionists, Black &white, carried over from Black Americans free, freed and enslaved, that the Declaration worked as both an indictment & a promise — the spiritual foundation of the nation and the standard that its institutions must meet. 🎁 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/opinion/declaration-independence-jefferson-douglass-lincoln.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uVA.SLeg.t9BjIoNECi5r&smid=nytcore-ios-share01 Jul 2026 23:01 +0000at://did:plc:wupnv3orkyfjbe47mc5vshas/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpmmqulvik24https://bsky.app/profile/daisymsc.bsky.social/post/3mhyxaiz5uc2nTrans rights are human rights. All people should have the right to compete in sports as themselves.27 Mar 2026 01:20 +0000at://did:plc:wupnv3orkyfjbe47mc5vshas/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhyxaiz5uc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/daisymsc.bsky.social/post/3mp7bslb2y22o“"The people who were overlooked and unnamed and didn't count in the official record, they deserve to take up space in our national memory," Kerwin said. "They are America." [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Jun 2026 15:41 +0000at://did:plc:wupnv3orkyfjbe47mc5vshas/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp7bslb2y22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/daisymsc.bsky.social/post/3mp7btmbbsk2owww.resistancerangers.org https://www.resistancerangers.org/26 Jun 2026 15:42 +0000at://did:plc:wupnv3orkyfjbe47mc5vshas/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp7btmbbsk2o