I discovered early on in my teaching career that I couldn’t get my point across to students without a map.    I had pull-down maps in my...

This past week I performed a little experiment. I threw the word “history” out to various people–friends, waitresses, store clerks, even a c...

The History Carnival is up over at Culture and Stuff .    A blog carnival is a blog post with various links to other blogs that follow ...

So…in my neck of the woods many had the first day of school while other had their first day of pre-planning.    What was it for you? A fe...

Lanett and Opelika in Alabama….Amity in Arkansas…..Hogansville, Canton, and Douglasville in Georgia….Concord and Carrboro in North Carolina...

Over the Fourth of July holiday I was fortunate enough to make a stop at Andrew Jackson’s home, Hermitage, in Nashville, Tennessee. Unfo...

One of the important lessons I teach each year is the Declaration of Independence.   Over the years I’d bring up our nation’s important do...

Tom Horn.  A simple name for a man yet it appears he lived a very complex life.   In fact, Tom Horn himself said of his life, “I have live...

Our greatest generation, those men and women who got us through World War II, keeps getting smaller as time marches on.   In fact, it is es...

I love the beach.   The sand, the sparkling water, the sound and smell of the pounding surf, walking the beach with my head down hoping….h...

We drove through a little town close to our house Sunday, and they had our nation’s flag everywhere - on buildings, houses and up and down ...

Did you know….. 32 years today CNN made its debut with a lead story regarding the attempted assassination of civil rights leader Vernon Jor...