Here is a cool link that I cam across recently, a database of battlefield and historical markers. According to the website, “Listed here are blog entries, pages, and links to marker lists which detail the historical markers located on Civil War...
I came across the following link and thought I would share: The HarpWeek website and has over 400 political cartoons on the Lincoln presidency. You can view different people, symbols, topics, places or artists that had something to do with these cartoons. ...
The concept of a WebQuest was developed by Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University in 1995 and they are inquiry based lessons that where learners obtain information from the Internet. These are very popular with teachers as a method for promoting inquiry while...
MERRY CHRISTMAS I have blogged about Christmas in the past so I thought that I would continue the tradition of showing more connections of Christmas and the Civil War. This time I am going to focus on a famous sketch of “Merry Old Santa Claus” by Thomas...
In Part 1 of of this series we started to look at some of the key words and concepts in the Gettysburg Address. Let’s continue our exploration by looking for some deeper meanings. Let’s begin again with the Wordle of Mr. Lincoln’s Famous...
I have talked about the Gettysburg Address in the past but during the 2010 Civil War Preservation Trust Teacher’s Institute I attended a session by Mr. Chuck Teague on Teaching the Gettysburg Address. He has graciously given me permission to share some of...
