Amanda Perschall @nancystate

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

More ELA time isn’t automatically the answer to stronger reading comprehension. Social studies builds background knowledge while giving students opportunities to engage with rich texts, charts, graphs, timelines, and more. That’s literacy, too. 🎧 knowledgematters.org/history-matter…

Mayor Mamdani announces a lottery for 2,000 free tickets for NYC high schoolers to seven different Broadway shows. “This is justice for the theater kids who have watched City Hall roll out lotteries for major sporting events all summer long,” Mamdani says.

The @InPursuitUSA initiative's Colleen Shogan (@AOTUS11_Shogan), historian, explains why the Constitution left the presidency intentionally flexible. George Washington established many of the traditions that still guide the office today. In Pursuit: Lessons of American Leadership is a new documentary special produced by @RetroReport, based on @InPursuitUSA by More Perfect. It brings the leadership lessons of American presidents and first ladies to life for America’s 250th anniversary. Tune in Oct. 27 at 10/9c (check local listings) on @PBS to learn more: retroreport.org/articles/in-pu… Teachers, access free classroom resources for America’s 250th anniversary on Retro Report’s website: retroreport.org/america-250-re…

July's #America250 celebrations may have come and gone, but we're still recognizing the milestone through the end of the year here at @CSPAN. Among other robust programming, check out our growing collection of essays from @InPursuitUSA on American presidents and first ladies: sites.google.com/view/c-spancla….

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Happy Birthday Missouri! On this day in 1821, Missouri entered the Union as the 24th state of the United States when President James Monroe signed the statehood proclamation.

Pocahontas and William Shakespeare died less than a year apart from each other…in the same country.

Amendment 5 received 16% of the vote, the lowest level of support for any constitutional amendment since 1912. #moleg #mogov missouriindependent.com/2026/08/07/his…

#OnThisDay in 1945, the United States drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. In our #FoundersLibrary, read President Truman’s statement on the use of the weapon: ow.ly/8kXt50ZupSp

Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

Incredible. missouriindependent.com/2026/08/05/wha…

This is important! 💯

This. This is why I keep teaching government and registering kids to vote. These moments still make me teary-eyed.

Mark Maxwell @MarkMaxwellTV

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A small commotion at my small South City polling place this morning worth reporting. A first-timer voter, unsure of himself, timidly asked for a ballot. Applause broke out. A dozen election judges, most of them old enough to be that voter’s grandparents, stood and cheered him on.

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Anyone who has spent more than five minutes looking at this issue or talking to abuse survivors knows that victims of domestic violence are desperate to feel safe, and they can believe (at least for some time) that appeasement works. Cooking. Sex. Professions of love. etc. All are tried to make the violence stop. Get this man out of Congress.

The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline

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Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

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A process required by the U.S. Constitution, the first #Census recorded the population at 3,929,214 #OTD in 1790 and it has been taken every ten years since this date. Learn more from a @uscensusbureau director and others: c-span.org/classroom/docu…. #GovChat #APGov

250 years ago today, the Declaration of Independence as we know it came to be. On Aug. 2, 1776, the delegates still in Philadelphia signed the engrossed parchment, which had been penned by Timothy Matlack. A few signed later, with the last (Thomas McKean of DE) signing in 1777.

She is the only woman in American history to receive the Medal of Honor. The Army tried to take it back. She refused, and wore it every day until she died. Mary Edwards Walker was already a rebel before the war. She earned a medical degree in 1855, when almost no woman could, and she wore trousers and men's-style clothing in public because she thought women's fashion of the era was unhealthy and absurd. She got arrested for it more than once. When the Civil War came, she volunteered as a surgeon. The Army would not commission a woman, so she worked for free, treating the wounded at places like Fredericksburg and Chattanooga, until she was finally hired as a contract surgeon. She routinely crossed into enemy territory to treat sick and wounded civilians, and in 1864 the Confederates arrested her as a spy and held her in a Richmond prison for months. After the war, President Andrew Johnson signed off on awarding her the Medal of Honor for her wartime service. She got it in 1865. Then, in 1917, the Army revised its rules and stripped the medal from her and hundreds of others, in her case because she had been a civilian contractor, not a commissioned soldier. They asked for it back. She flatly refused, and wore her Medal of Honor proudly for the last two years of her life anyway. She died in 1919, largely forgotten. But her family kept fighting, and in 1977 the Army admitted she had been a victim of discrimination and formally restored her Medal of Honor. More than a century later, she is still the only woman ever to hold it.

On 30 July, 1619 In the choir loft of the church at Jamestown, Virginia, the first elected legislative assembly in the New World came to order. Governor Sir George Yeardley, acting on instructions from the London Company, had called for a “General Assembly.” Twenty-two burgesses, elected by the free adult men of the colony’s eleven boroughs, gathered for the first time. Master John Pory served as speaker. Their first law set a minimum price for tobacco (three shillings a pound). They also banned gambling, drunkenness, and idleness, and made Sabbath observance mandatory. Every measure still needed approval from London, but the principle was established: colonists would have a voice in their own laws. The House of Burgesses had begun. Self-government in America was underway.

After more than 3 years of devastating combat & destruction, United Nations forces – which included the United States, South Korea, and 20 other countries – and North Korea & China signed an armistice agreement effectively ending the hostilities of the Korean War #OTD in 1953. We remember all those who fought for freedom. #KoreanWar #WashingtonDC

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Vote No on both, Missouri. @MSTA @MissouriNEA @MOFarmBureau @ShowMe @MissouriGOP