There’s a little restaurant not too far from my home that we frequent for the great steaks and great service.    I usually order an ad...

Happy President's Day!!! When I was younger we didn’t have a day to celebrate all U.S. Presidents.  Instead we split the day in two ...

I met up with a teacher the other day that has the privilege of introducing the Civil War to her fourth graders each year.  Th...

Many months ago I set up a Facebook page for this blog where folks could like the page and could have yet another way to keep up with upda...

A good friend sent me this article the other night written by Rob Boston and published in the Pittsburg Post-Gazette.  My friend wanted...

So....little Johnny or Susie brings home a teacher prepared worksheet filled with several math problems for homework.  At some point a p...

Christmas Day I sat in a very full movie theater and experienced a crowd so moved by what they had watched they cheered and clapped at...

I've been writing about the official White House Christmas card here at History Is Elementary and American Presidents Blog since 2006...

When we think of Flappers we think of women in the 1920s wearing dresses with low waistlines, with hemlines a little below the knee, lon...