I just returned from St. Augustine, Florida to celebrate my 25th wedding anniversary. It has everything this history teacher loves….lots of ...

So, I’ve been silent for a bit around here. Lots going on at my house….sending out graduation notices for my son, sending out 50th birthday ...

This, of course is a painting by the artist known as Childe Hassam, an American Impressionist artist best known for his series of flag pain...

What makes a good plot line for a story? First I think you need interesting characters….people you can care about….people you are willin...

This week’s mystery involves the coin you see above. There is quite a story surrounding this coin….one that involves a much larger and much...

Before we begin, please listen to some personal messages. Jean has a long mustache. There is a fire at the insurance agency. The...

Did you know the Library of Congress has a blog. You can find it here . The National Recording Preservation Board , part of the Library...

Here’s a puzzle for you….this rock formation had a very important role to play in history. Can you guess which world history event is involv...

It’s been a crazy couple of weeks around here at Elementaryhistoryteacher Central….Recently I’ve loaded my plate up with so much stuff I’ve ...

Today is D-Day….another day that does live in infamy. Over the last three years I’ve posted various things about D-Day and/or WWII in gener...

By simply relying on the textbook my students learn that between 1840 and 1860 the number of immigrants arriving in the United States rose s...

Well, school is just about over in my neck of the woods. Time flies when you’re having fun, huh? It does just seem like the school year st...

Memorial Day – a day set aside to remember those who have died while in military service. Originally known as Decoration Day following the C...

Last week over at American Presidents Blog I published an article about an erroneous fact concerning President Franklin Pierce titled Milk ...

No matter what is going on in my household each particular week two items always make the top ten list for the grocery store – milk and brea...

It’s testing time here in the sunny, warm south. That means it’s time for the memos to begin a-flyin’ regarding “the test” and those ever so...

Back during another lifetime in the 1970s you would have found me on Friday night sitting in front of our family television….the one where t...

I’ve been so out of touch lately, and I’ve missed a few nods from fellow bloggers. One such nod came from Teacher of One over at Boys + Acad...

Well….I don’t think anyone noticed, but if you stopped by yesterday my cartoon image of myself and my other identifiers on this blog were m...

Today is Progress report day. I hate progress report day. My students hate progress report day. We hate it for different reasons however...