Miscellaneous

Gettysburg Cyclorama

June 22, 2010

The Gettysburg Cyclorama, officially known as the “Battle of Gettysburg” Cyclorama, is a 360 degree circular painting that depicts Pickett’s Charge on July 3, 1863. According to the Gettysburg National Military Park, it’s one of the last remaining cycloramas in the United States. The Gettysburg Cyclorama was created by the French artist Paul Philippoteaux. Starting [...]

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Using Blogs to Teach the Civil War

June 11, 2010

Today’s post will be used to list some blogs that talk about the Civil War and could be used within the classroom. These blogs allow you and your students to bring subject matter experts along with tons of primary and secondary source materials into your classroom.  You can view these blogs individually or add them [...]

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Causes of the Civil War Podcast

May 26, 2010

The Teaching American History Podcast series has a two-part lecture that I would like to share with you. The lecture is on the causes of the Civil War and is presented by James McPherson. You can read a description of the lecture HERE: Here is the link to Part 1 and Here is the link [...]

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Live Webcast on the Battle of Shiloh

April 28, 2010

Just sharing that on Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. EST, the Weider History Group and American Military University will present a webcast on the Battle of Shiloh. The following is from the website for the webcast: ———————————————————————————– The fact that the first major battle of the Western Theater did not take place until [...]

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Introducting Patriot Pete

March 31, 2010

As you know, my daughter has her Civil War Sallie project that is traveling around teaching and learning about the Civil War.  Well, my son CJ has created his own project named Patriot Pete.  As the newest member of the Follow Me Project family, Patriot Pete was created to get kids to learn more about [...]

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Making New Photos Look Old

March 7, 2010

Here is something cool you can do with your students. Have them take modern photos and make them look old. For example, here is a photo that I took of some friends of mine from Sykes Regulars. You can then take the photograph and put it into your favorite photo editor such as Photoshop, Paint [...]

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Live Webcast – Discovering the Civil War Online

March 1, 2010

Discovering the Civil War Online – Live Webcast from American Public University Best practices and tips from the experts for researching original Civil War documents online Have you ever handled a document over 150 years old? The American Civil War left behind a vast paper trail of soldiers’ letters and diaries, as well as newspapers [...]

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Museum Curator to live like a soldier

January 22, 2010

The National Civil War Museum here in Harrisburg is a great place to visit to see all of the wonderful artifacts and exhibits.  Well, from February 6th to the 20th, it will also be a great time to visit and talk to a living historian who will be experiencing life as a Civil War soldier. [...]

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Read Books on the Civil War Online

January 4, 2010

As many of you already know, Google has begun to scan and make books available online, including full versions of books. These books are copyright free and can be downloaded for your reading pleasure. In addition to these books, there are also some books where the copyright has not expired, however you can read sample [...]

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Nominated for an EduBlog Award

December 11, 2009

Hello Everyone, Just a note to say that I’ve been nominated for a 2009 EduBlog Award as the Best Resource Sharing Blog. I would greatly appreciate it if you take a moment to vote for my blog I would greatly appreciate it. While you are there, Civil War Sallie has also been nominated for the [...]

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The Edublog Award Nominations

December 1, 2009

The Edublog Awards 2009 are open for nomination! This is a chance for educators to nominate and celebrate the achievements of edubloggers, twitterers, podcasters, video makers, online communities, wiki hosts and other web based users of educational technology. Here are the categories, I would like to nominate the following individuals: Best individual blog — Speaking [...]

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The Complete Gettysburg Guide

November 10, 2009

I recently received a copy of The Complete Gettysburg Guide by J.D. Petruzzi and Steven Stanley and I wanted to share my thoughts on the book.   To begin, this is by far one of the best guides to the Battle of Gettysburg that I have read.  In addition to detailing the three days of the [...]

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More Videos on YouTube aka Civil War Music Videos

October 24, 2009

I have found a few more videos on YouTube that I would like to share with you. The first two were done by Tapsbugler (those familiar with the hobby will know who this is) and the first video is Field Musicians of the Civil War and the second video is Brass Bands of the Civil [...]

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The Secrets of the Civil War

October 8, 2009

Just a quick post to share that the July 2007 issue of U.S. News and World Report had a special section called The Secrets of the Civil War. The articles pretty good and there are some great resources that can be used in your classroom including a multimedia timeline of the war. Check it out [...]

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Antietam. . .An Outdoor Classroom for Students of All Ages

October 5, 2009

The following was originally posted by Antietam National Park Ranger Hoptak on his 48th Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry Blog and is reproduced here with permission from Ranger Hoptak. This post provides some insight into the educational programs available to school students at the park. Also, be sure to check out the link at the end [...]

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Links to Interviews

October 1, 2009

Just a quick note to remind you that back in 2008, I was interviewed by Dave Solon (http://k12geek.com/blog/) about my blog. This interview was for his Twenty Minutes for Tech podcast. Thought you might enjoy listening sometime when you have a few minutes: http://www.twentyfortech.com/?p=9 Also, in January of this year I did an interview with [...]

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Animated Battalion and Company Drills

September 14, 2009

Sykes Regulars, a Civil War reenacting group, have an excellent collection of resources and research in the School of Instruction section of their website. One such section shows one part of the School of the Battalion as a Flash animation and another has three animations on the School of the Company. So, I was thinking [...]

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More Statistics…Still too little time

September 7, 2009

Well, I’m not a statistician by any means and I even struggled with the stats for my dissertation. But for some reason, I have quite a few blog posts on statistics. So, why not one more: The following tables are the number of Union and Confederate soldiers who were killed, wounded or captured during the [...]

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Hardtack to Harddrives

August 16, 2009

Eric Langhorst, over at the Speaking of History Blog presented at the METC 2008 Conference on Hardtack to Hard Drives. The presentation is related to Eric’s use of the book Guerrilla Season in order to integrate blogs into his classroom. What really got me thinking was how can you, as a classroom teacher, share your [...]

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Finding Resources with Del.icio.us

May 8, 2009

For those of you who don’t know, del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site where people can store links to their favorite websites and access them from anywhere rather than being tied to a single computer. One of the cool things about del.icio.us is being able to search for websites that others have bookmarked with del.icio.us. [...]

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