by TeachCivilWar | May 9, 2011 | Civil War Related Websites
While browsing my Delicious feed the other day, I came across the HistoryBuff.com website and found it very interesting and thought I’d share. HistoryBuff.com is providing digitized versions of newspapers from throughout history. According the the...
by TeachCivilWar | Apr 14, 2011 | Civil War Related Websites
Another email that I received and thought I’d share. This is from the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. We are excited to announce that Gettysburg College’s Civil War Institute has just unveiled a new blog entitled 901 Gettysburg Stories . ...
by TeachCivilWar | Apr 8, 2011 | Civil War Related Websites
Just a quick post today to share that I was asked to write a guest blog post for the National Museum of American History’s blog. The post is entitled, “Exploring the Gettysburg Address with Kids” and it was a great experience working with the staff...
by TeachCivilWar | Jan 25, 2011 | Tutorials
Here is a screencast that I did for you on using primary sources to get your students to act like historians. Until next...
by TeachCivilWar | Jan 6, 2011 | Book Reviews
In light of the recent Virginia text book controversy I wanted to tell you about the book Gettysburg: A Battlefield Atlas which I picked up at a local yard sale. I am always eager to read a book about the battle and this small book looked interesting and it was cheap....