She arrived in Scobey on the Great Northern with her sons, her money, and a glass eye — and turned a Montana hotel into the wildest house on the northern plains. Meet Minnie “One-Eyed Molly” Wakefield, whose bordello became a courthouse. The law closed her down, but the building never forgot her.
Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people/minnie-wakefield
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Missoula turned out in full force today!!
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A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to reinstall exhibits and signs on topics like slavery and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationwide because they "do not align with its preferred narrative." https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-administration-must-restore-history-science-materials-parks-us-judge-rules-2026-06-12/
This week the City Council joined with CVUSD in observing Juneteenth, the annual holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the US. This is an important event in US history. As Marlena Wallace, chair of CVUSD’s African-American District Advisory Council noted, African-American history *is* American history. Happy Juneteenth!
Did Custer’s defeated soldiers leave a secret fortune behind? After the Battle of the Little Bighorn, a legend was born of lost battlefield gold hidden by Northern Cheyenne warriors. A mysterious map was sealed inside Chief Two Moons' stone tomb—only to be stolen in a late-night heist. Dive into Montana’s wildest historical mystery!
Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/mysteries/lost-treasure-of-the-northern-cheyenne
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You and your students can explore Corita Kent's amazing activist art with award-winning documentary Rebel Hearts. Our free curriculum guide includes a hands-on visual arts activity that invites students to make their own multimedia calligraphic art inspired by Corita Kent.
Learn more and get this free art activity. https://journeysinfilm.org/film/rebel-hearts/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social+media&utm_campaign=OTD&utm_id=June+2026&utm_term=Lovings&utm_content=link
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In celebration of Loving Day, we're sharing "New Hope" by Corita Kent. This serigraph from 1966 is dedicated to Mildred and Richard Loving. At that time the Lovings were plaintiffs in the midst of the Supreme Court case that ultimately struck down states’ bans on interracial marriage the following year on June 12.
Check out the alt text to read the full text of the serigraph.
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I remember reading Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" that one year I went to a US highschool. So I bought Common Sense and selected works of Thomas Paine a while back and have started reading it again. It is great fun so far. With such lines as "[…] Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil […]" and "Absolute governments (tho' the disgrace of human nature) have this advantage with them, that they are simple; if the people suffer they know the head from which their suffering springs, know likewise the remedy, and are not bewildered by a variety of causes and cures," who could not be amused and delighted?
Anyway.
I would like an analysis of the text written by someone who knows their stuff. Do you have any recommendations?
Hoping these hashtags help.
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