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Wild West Magazine
In the 1880s, Deana Doyle taught in a one-room schoolhouse in Nevada. One room did not mean only one grade or class, so Doyle had to go back and forth between her younger and older students, making sure that they all stayed busy and all...
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World War II Magazine
Bringing World War II Into The Classroom On July 25, 2006, the Pennsylvania Veterans Museum screened the first in a series of educational films dealing with World War II: On Freedom’s Wings: Bound for Glory—The Legacy of the Tuskegee...
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Military History Magazine
Colonel Malcolm Muir, holder of a chair in military history at Virginia Military Institute, has long been teaching a full spectrum of courses to future officers of the U.S. military at VMI and at West Point, as well as to mid-career...
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Wild West Magazine
‘Kill the Indian, Save the Man’ Less than two years after the December 1890 bloody tragedy at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, Captain Richard Henry Pratt, the founder of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, read a paper...
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Wild West Magazine
Our Spirits Don’t Speak English: Indian Boarding School Rich-Heape Films, Dallas, 2008, on hi-definition DVD, 80-minute documentary, $29.95. The Carlisle Indian Industrial School, founded in Pennsylvania in 1879 by Captain Richard Henry...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Civil War Memory: Reflections of a High School History Teacher and Civil War Historian cwmemory.com Aside from a new address and a clean new theme, the newly overhauled blog Civil War Memory provides new features, including “threaded...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Unknown soldier to receive a place of honor The recently discovered remains of a Civil War soldier, including a skull, jawbone, arm bone and single tooth, will be reinterred as part of a new unknown soldier monument in the city of...
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Civil War Times Magazine
Hey, History Isn’t Boring Anymore! by Kelly Ann Butterbaugh, White Mane Today there are a wealth of innovative resources, such as Joy Hakim’s award-winning 11-part series A History of US, to expand youngsters’ understanding of our...
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Civil War Times Magazine
The prison site on Johnson’s Island has proved to be an un – usually rich resource for archaeologists and historians. Thanks to a combination of historical documentation and field research, the prison stockade, Fort Johnson, the...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Divided loyalties within and armed mobs without plunge the United States Naval Academy into a sea of uncertainty. Two figures emerged onto the roof of the Executive Mansion, their silhouettes small against the cloudless immensity of blue...
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American History Magazine
In Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning (Harvard University Press, 2010), Harvard’s Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government, Paul E. Peterson, follows the rise, decline and potential salvation of America’s once...
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America's Civil War Magazine
Civil War history and the Beatles inspire American Tom Sebrell, resident academic at Queen Mary College, University of London—and tour guide. What surprises Americans most about Civil War activities in Britain? Taking the British out of...
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American History Magazine
Sam Wineburg, 53, is a professor of education and history at Stanford University and director of the Stanford History Education Group. A former high school history teacher and author of Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts:...
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American History Magazine
Andrew Delbanco is a humanities professor at Columbia University and head of American Studies there. He is the author of The Puritan Ordeal, Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now and, most recently, College: What It Was,...
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HistoryNet
ACG at Historic Civil War Gravesite ACG “The Andersonville Trial, 1865,” which discusses the military tribunal and ’s March 2013 article execution of Confederate Captain Henry Wirz, noted that Wirz is buried in the Mount Olivet...
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America's Civil War Magazine
“MY CAREER AS A CADET,” George Armstrong Custer wrote, “had but little to recommend it to the study of those who came after me, unless as an example to be carefully avoided.” He did not exaggerate. Custer was one of the worst...
