Famous People

The Journal of Harriet Tubman

September 25, 2009

While the website is from 2006, here is an interesting idea on how to use a blog in the classroom. http://dowell.typepad.com/harriet_tubman/ The students in this classroom have researched a historical figure and created a blog that reflects entries as that historical person. The famous person in this case is Harriet Tubman. The students in this [...]

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President Lincoln Using Technology

September 19, 2009

There is a very good book called Mr. Lincoln’s T-Mails by Tom Wheeler that I encourage everyone to read. The book discusses how President Lincoln used technology, in this case the telegraph, to stay connected with his troops in the field. In today’s technological society, the President knows exactly what is going on with his [...]

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Civil War Sallie Visits Ford’s Theatre

July 5, 2009

Hi.  As you know I have a project called Civil War Sallie and she recently visited Fords Theater in Washington DC so I thought I would share her post here on my dad’s blog. I just came back from a busy few days at the National Education Computing Conference in Washington D.C. While there, me, [...]

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Lincoln Loved Learning

June 14, 2009

Here is another cool use of VoiceThread for your classroom. Melanie Lewis is an Instructional Technology Resource Teacher in Virgina and has created a webpage called Lincoln Loved Learning. Mrs. Lewis has taken several images from the life of Abraham Lincoln and combined them together with a narrative text using VoiceThread. These photographs depict various [...]

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Clara Barton

May 31, 2009

Clara Barton is one of the most famous women in American history. So while in 4th grade, it came time for my daughter to do a report on a famous person from history, she chose Clara. What was even more fun was that she wanted to do a slide show of pictures about Clara as [...]

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The HomeFront: Women and the Civil War

May 17, 2009

The roles women played during the Civil War have only recently been given the same respect as famous generals and battles. If we look in the context of this time period, the woman was considered the light of the hearth and home. Upon her fell the duty of managing the home, bearing and teaching the [...]

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The Death of John Wilkes Booth

April 25, 2009

April 26th marks the day that John Wilkes Booth was shot in the neck and killed by a Union Calvary soldier while hiding in a barn on the farm of Richard Garrett near Bowling Green, Virginia. Photo of the Garrett farm from http://www.nps.gov/archive/foth/escapjwb.htm Since April 14th, Booth had spent many days feeling south into Virginia. [...]

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Podcast from Ford’s Theater

April 16, 2009

Eric Langhorst is an 8th grade American History teacher in Liberty, Missouri and runs the Speaking of History podcast and blog. Eric has some great resources on his website for using Web 2.0 technologies into the teaching of History. Eric recorded the presentation of a National Park Service Ranger at Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC [...]

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The Assassination of President Lincoln

April 15, 2009

On April 14, 1863, President and Mrs. Lincoln were attending a performance of “Our American Cousin” at Washington’s Ford’s Theater. As the Lincolns and their guests, Major Rathbone and his fiancee Clara Harris, watched the play John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box and shot the president in the head. Here is an interview from [...]

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On on the Lincoln Assassination

April 14, 2009

Special thanks to Dennis Lawrence of the Gettysburg Discussion Group for pointing out the following from Speaking about Lincoln and The Lincoln Log for April 14 ————————————————————————————————- Friday, April 14, 1865. Capt. Robert Lincoln arrives in Washington from scene of Gen. R. E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, Va., in time for 8 A.M. breakfast with [...]

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