I've had military memorials on the brain this week.   Perhaps it's because my high school Homecoming was this past weekend.  My ...

Mammy's little baby loves shot'nin', short'nin', Mammy's little baby loves short'nin' bread... ...

Sometimes historians can group together a series of events and tag them with an overall identifying name that connects all of the events t...

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...