History as Prologue

Tag: American History

  • Blogging History – Summer grooming

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    Summer grooming Blogging as a hobby bears many similarities with the relationship one has with a pet. I avoid the term pet ownership as any truthful human with a pet understands that the reality of control is quite fluid, certainly where cats are concerned and to a large degree with dogs as well. There are…

  • Social studies, civil rights and the bigger picture

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    Social studies, civil rights and the bigger picture There have been three presidential administrations, including the Obama Administration, since I last participated in a social studies methods class. Over the years, I’ve focused on units and lessons that support those broad themes of social studies without much deliberate thought given to those stemming concepts. Like all fundamentals…

  • Nostalgia – History’s Greatest Nemisis

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    Nostalgia has its rightful place at reunions, on anniversaries and within the pages of dusty photo albums; it has no place in the practice of history. Not be egregious, but words have meaning. They have precision. Words also have implication, a more subjective state of meaning, but one that demands the user bring to bear…

  • Starting Out

    Starting Out

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    Growing up where I did, I find it hard to imagine that I wouldn’t be deeply drawn to American History, and yet, few others who shared the same geographic circumstances of my childhood are similarly inclined. I was surrounded by physical reminders of some of our nation’s earliest and most significant developments and those places…