Category: history
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George Washington’s Teeth- A Lesson in Looking Deeper
This week I have the honor and pleasure of attending the George Washington Teacher Institute at Mount Vernon. The hospitality and generosity of the staff here is astounding, and the scholars I’m getting to learn from just amaze me (I got to meet and listen to Lindsay Chervinsky, author of The Cabinet and an all-time…
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History in the Kitchen: World War II Rationing & Maple Custard Pie
All Americans were expected to sacrifice for the common good, and these sacrifices became the norm. Rationing food and supplies was one of those sacrifices.
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History in the Kitchen: Black Wall Street & Apple Dowdy
Black Wall Street is another name for the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and in 1921 it was one of the wealthiest Black communites in the United States.
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Distance Learning Resources Part 1
If your school is like mine, you are either preparing for or already are involved in distance learning for your students.
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The Newark Museum: A Gem
I grew up in a town less than five minutes from Newark, New Jersey. All my life I’ve known that Newark is the home of so many wonderful things: Branchbrook Park and it’s cherry blossoms, the Prudential Center, food that is to die for, and it was the city my immigrant Italian ancestors called home…
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The Declaration of Independence Creatively Translated
Click here to view to the lesson! Creativity holds an important place in the history classroom. Children in an early childhood education setting are encouraged to paint, collage, and use their imaginations to learn about the world around them. At what point during a student’s education does that change? I argue that it doesn’t have…
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How do historians know history?
Sometimes my students ask me “How do historians know what happened in the past?” I feel like there are many answers to this question, and I begin my explanation with a children’s puzzle. A puzzle is the perfect symbol for history. Historians make use of many accounts of an event including primary sources like peoples’…
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Happening History- Welcome
Each year when a fresh-faced, bright-eyed group of 8th graders walks into my classroom on the first day, I try to get a single point across that I hope they’ll carry with them throughout the school year and beyond:History is more than dates and dead guys. That being said, the question becomes, what is history?…
