August History Carnival

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 the same topic.  In this case the topic is history.   Think of it as the blogosphere’s version of Reader’s Digest with a different blog within the history community hosting each month.

It’s always a great read!!

I intend to enjoy it one little morsel at a time.  J

Enjoy!!!!

Out and About Sunday

The History Carnival posted this past week over at Diapsalmata. Once I finish this post I’m putting my feet up and heading over there to click through all the great reads. Yes, I’m a little late getting around to it, but in case you are unaware I had surgery again a couple of weeks ago, and s-l-o-w is the word I live by these days. :)

A few months ago the folks over at OpenSalon.com contacted me and asked me to set up a blog over at their hub. It took me awhile to figure out what I wanted to do over there, but after copying my efforts here a few times I finally decided to focus on current events.

Sounds appropriate for a social studies teacher, doesn’t it?

At any rate my offering over there this week is titled A Real Apology and it focuses on my thoughts regarding a formal apology for slavery and an apology made just this past week from a former member of the KKK to U.S. Rep. John Lewis this past week. You can find the post here.

Finally, this past week Jennie, over at American Presidents Blog posted a picture for readers to identify. When she went to gather up her information to write a post to identify the man she discovered I had already written a post about him….former White House Chief Usher Ike Hoover… and published it here at History Is Elementary. Jennie’s a smart lady, a busy educator, and an even busier wife and mom…rather than reinvent the wheel she asked me to republish my post at American Presidents. I was happy to do so.

Ike Hoover is an example of great Americans that are behind the scenes…in Ike’s case he was behind the scenes for eight different presidents. In case you missed it on its first run you can read more about him over at American Presidents Blog.

Finally, I was sad to learn last week the folks who have run the Thursday Thirteen blog meme for the last several months have had to take the site down leaving many die-hard fans saddened. A few fans are continuing on with their regular Thirteen list, and I plan to do so as well. Even though I try to present an academic offering here I liked the idea of participating in Thursday Thirteen because the concept fit well with historical topics where I could relate thirteen facts in a very basic cut and dry fashion. Plus I liked the idea of reaching out to the non-history, non-educator crowd in an effort to show them history can be interesting and can be……should I really say it? FUN!!!!!!! Look for a Thirteen list later this week involving weather and war.

Have a great week!

Sunday Snippets

The Education Carnival is up for your reading pleasure over at Matthew Needleman’s site….Creating Lifelong Learners while the History Carnival made its appearance over at American Presidents. I’m a bit late with these links….Take pity on a recooping woman. :)

Last week my good blog friend Polski3 alerted me that this site may be loading s-l-o-w-l-y when you try to access it. I’ve noticed the site being a bit slow for me as well.

I’m sorry. It’s not my intention.

I visited WebSiteOptimization.com and allowed their system to analyze my site. I found my images and exterior scripts might be slowing things down, so I’m planning on spending this week trying some changes. I’d love to convert to the layout style for Blogger….this template is written for Classic Blogger. I’ll see what works and what doesn’t. If you stop by and things look a little strange...well, now you will know why.

Finally, the particular lesson referenced below is one I wish I had thought of first……

Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock, did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal, and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks out of her classroom. When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks. Looking around, confused, they asked, “Ms. Cothren, where’re our desks?”

She replied, “You can’t have a desk until you tell me what you have done to earn the right to sit at a desk.”

They thought, “Well, maybe it’s our grades.”

“No,” she said.

Maybe it’s our behavior.

She told them, “No, it’s not even your behavior.”

And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom. By early afternoon television news crews had started gathering in Ms. Cothren’s classroom to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all of the desks out of her room.

The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the deskless classroom. Martha Cothren said, “Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he/she has done to earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in the classroom. Now I’m going to tell you.”

Want to know the reason…..head here to learn more about a gutsy move by a gutsy teacher to help her students understand what the right to an education is all about.

Carnival Information......

The latest editions are out!

You can find the History Carnival at Osprey Publishing, the Education Carnival at Lead From the Start, and I posted the Georgia Carnival over at Georgia on My Mind last Friday. The Georgia Carnival isn’t just a collection of postings concerning the state of Georgia….there’s always a wide range of topics there from national politics to art, to an interview with an ice road trucker.

Carnivals Abound

The May edition of the History Carnival has posted over at Bay Radical while last week’s edition of the Education Carnival can be found at What It's Like on the Inside, and this week’s edition is posted over at Bellringers. Enjoy!

In case you aren't sure what a blog carnival is....the best way I know how to describe it is a carnival is a blog post with lots of links to other blogs all posting on a similar subject. It's a regular online magazine of sorts that posts on a weekly (education carnival) or monthly (history carnival) basis.

Check them out, but don't get eat too much cotton candy!

Three Carnivals for the Weekend

The newest edition of the Georgia Carnival is up for your reading pleasure over at Shelbinator.com. This edition includes great timely topics, interesting categories, and the wit and reparte we have come to expect from the Shelbinator.

If you're education minded the education carnival is up over at Learn Me Good while Noirlecroi.com presents a teacher's life carnival.

Great Carnivals, the Toilet Paper Blues, and an Uncharacteristic Rant

The Georgia Blog Carnival is up over at Georgia on My Mind. It’s the perfect combination of great reads!

The Education Carnival was posted this past Wednesday over at the Sam Jackson College Experience and contains lots of education topics.

The History Carnival can be found over at Spinning Clio. Marc advises he had several off topic submissions. I’ve noticed the same going on with Education Carnival and the Georgia Carnival as well over the last several months, and the practice seems to be increasing. Did some spammy blog guru post some sort of insane post advising high-roller wannabes to submit to every blog carnival that comes down the pike to increase their hit counts and links? Basically the practice does nothing but slow down the carnival host as they attempt to put the carnival together, frustrate the readers who visit a carnival for one particular overarching topic or focus, and it really does nothing to increase the blogger’s reputation who adheres to submitting to this carnival and that carnival willy- nilly. These folks get a great big BOO from me…..not that it matters to them.

Me? I’m an innkeeper this weekend. Go read the intro to the Georgia Carnival and discover why. One thing is for certain....it’s very difficult to keep 8 female guests supplied with enough towels and toilet paper to get them through their day and evening. Last night at bedtime (2 a.m.) two of our toilets flushed continuously for 30 minutes…I kid you not! Also, don’t believe that hogwash regarding how teen boys eat more than girls. This evening they plowed through an entire stock pot full of chili and since last evening I’ve already thrown away six empty 2-liter drink bottles not to mention a gallon-sized milk jug that was full this time last night. Don’t get me wrong….for all my fussing I’ve enjoyed being their host. The whole situation has proven to me though that I don't have what it takes to be a hotel mogul.

Have a great rest of the weekend. I have to go on a reconnaissance mission regarding toilet paper and fold more towels.

Carnivals for Many Interests

Georgia blogger and fellow educator, Terrell, over at Alone on a Limb maintains the Carnival of Environmental Education. The February edition is being hosted here and Terrell advises the March edition will be returning to his blog next month. Check out all the different ways educators are using the great outdoors to engage students.

Interested in improving education? Interested in education policy? Then the education carnival is for you hosted at The Colossus of Rhodey. It’s not just lesson plans and theory. If education is your thing you can also check out the A Teacher's Life blog carnival and don’t forget the Carnival of Homeschooling.

The latest edition of the Georgia Carnival can be found here

Finally, lots of interesting postings regarding various history topics can be found at Historia i Media. This blog is written in Polish, but a large majority of the submissions are written in English so just click through the submission links and be surprised if you don’t have a translator program.

For Your Reading Pleasure

The history carnival is up over at The Victorian Peeper. Post are arranged chronologically and I can’t wait to become immersed in the submissions.

A new history carnival called Time Line is up over at Amor Valorem. Scroll down to the heading “A Trip Back in Time” to locate the history submissions. This will be a weekly event.

Here in Georgia it seems we can’t even go about our daily lives or explore the wonderful natural environments our state has to offer without some type of harm coming to us. Sadly it seems this young lady was murdered while this one is still missing.

Also topping the news in my section of Atlanta….students return to class tomorrow.

So much to do---so little time. Stress levels are on the rise!

Some Notable Links for Weekend Reading

Well, as you can see things here in the great state of Georgia are dire….very dire. Our governor has finally resorted to prayer even though many of us have already been on our knees, and Florida has backed away from the water truce.

The image you see here is courtesy of the Atlanta Water Shortage blog via The Atlanta Journal. Amazing, isn’t it? All that we should see of the tree stump is the very top or not at all. Our area lakes are quickly becoming desert landscapes.

I find it ironic that here in the middle of an extreme drought my husband and I spending the day getting ready to cook at a fish fry tonight for our Sunday School group at church. Of course I don’t have to do too much….hubby handles the cookers, and I’m mixing up the hushpuppies with plenty of green onion and buttermilk.

In an about face from American History I was intrigued by a book mention from Uncovered History….The Fall of the House of Hapsburg. I’m putting it on my list to see if the local library has it. World of Royalty also linked to something I might be able to use with students…Sherwood Forest is in danger. You could use the article to open a discussion on historical places and people versus Disney and other media portrayals. Some places our young students see in the media really do exisit, but the history is skewed.

First things this morning I was hit with this interesting tidbit of discovery. I hope to have more time tomorrow evening to delve into this...for now the hushpuppies are a priority rather than DaVinci and music embeds.

Another link you could use for diversion is from Caffeinated Politics involves watching Atlantis land from inside the craft. NYCEducator hates it when I used this word but……NEAT-O!

The Wrens Nest Online (of Joel Chandler Harris/Brer Rabbit fame) have been working with middle schoolers regarding this whole blogging thing.

Carnivals abound for reading pleasure….The 58th History Carnival is here, the Georgia Carnival is here, and the Education Carnival is here in an agenda type format (neat idea or should I say NEAT-O?).

Walking in the Berkshires has proposed a new carnival I’m really excited about. It’s called the Carnival of Curiosities. It’s a great idea and I can’t wait to participate. Head on over and check it out.

Finally, in case you missed it I posted Grace for Faith: The Perfect Trade over at Got Bible, and I explain how I would rather remember fallen members of the Allman Brothers Band over at Georgia on My Mind.

Happy Weekend!

13 Various Odds and Ends I Need to Mention About this Blog and the Edublogosphere in General

Warning….this post may contain some great links that may lead to an increase or overload with your time on-line. :)

1. New to my History blogroll….Miss!...the daily fun of a second year high school social studies teacher.

2. New to the education blogroll….Confessions From the Couch

3. I’ve added Classtools.net to my resource blogroll. It’s a new web 2.0 site providing free flash templates to use in the classroom. You can create your own games, diagrams---fishbones and venns, etc., and more…The really great thing is you can save your work on your blog or website and open your creation again for editing.

4. I’ve also added Active History to resources. It’s a facinating site regarding teaching history in the U.K.

5. Educahistoria.com is a site from Spain and is written entirely in Spanish, however most of us these days have the ability to read sites in our own languages. I'm thinking this site would be wonderful to share with students….students who speak Spanish and are learning English.

While we want them learning and reading English we also want them to have a little "comfort"reading, don’t we? I know I would want a few English resources if I suddenly found myself in Spain or Mexico and didn’t have a clue….which I wouldn’t. :)

6. Make sure you check out Educahistoria’s Blogosphere page for other Spanish sites too.

7. Every year I begin by teaching a short study skills unit since I’ve found most students have no idea what it means to study. They also generally don’t know how to set a goal and follow the steps necessary to achieve it.

I think I’ve found something I can add to my unit box…..Follow this link to Teaching Moments: Goal Setting for Students--- where it states, “Today’s students will be tomorrow's Generation Y employees. …they will dramatically change every aspect of society over the next ten years.”

Hmmmm….that could be a scary prospect, but with a little shaping, a little guidance we might be ok in our old age. From the website you can purchase Goal Setting for Students for only $6.95. What a bargain! There are also links to sign up for a newsletter and a blog.

8. In case you missed it the last round up of blog posts dealing with education was hosted by Matthew K. Tabor's site while this week’s education carnival can be found over at the Education Wonks.

9. The History Carnival posted around the first of September. You can find it over at Greenman Tim's wonderful site.

10. Do you know about Bibliodyssey? It is clearly one of the best image sites on the web. Check the current page out as well as the archives.

11. World History Blog has been on my history blogroll from day one. Miland posts several times a week regarding various events in world history. There is something interesting over there every time I visit.

12. Topics From 192 Countries is a group blog that has many different authors. There are new postings every day that clue you in to what’s going on around the world. Scroll down the sidebar and see if your country needs an author.

13. I’m sure that many 13 readers are royalty buffs. World of Royalty is an interesting site that places royalty resources in a one-stop-shop for your convenience. There is always new information to be had.

Finally, this blog will be hosting next week’s education carnival. Education posts can be fowarded to my email located at the top of the sidebar or use this handy submission link.

Visit other Thursday Thirteens here.

Carnivals Abound For the Weekend

The Georgia Carnival is up over at Georgia On My Mind. It’s going well and keeps getting a little larger each time. Come on over and see what the folks in the Peach State are up to.

Ms. Whatsit states where there are teachers there is food….and she’s right. In fact she has begun the Teacher Potluck Carnival. If you want some great recipes click on through.

Check here for the latest links to the Education and History Carnivals.

Three...Count 'Em...Three Carnivals

The Georgia Carnival can be found at Georgia On My Mind. Topics that really stand out are the responses to Georgia’s House Speaker, Glenn Richardson, who predicts a demise of the blogger…mainly the political kind. There’s an interesting post about George Bush’s America and an informative piece about driving in Atlanta.

The Education Carnival can be found at NYC Educator. Over summer break teachers and parents are discussing charters, budget cuts, and many other things. If you ever blog about education or you just have an opinion you need to get the scoop from the frontlines.

Historianess is hosting this month’s History Carnival. Some of the topics include a Civil War reading list , a post regarding amateur historians, a history of…get this….SEWERS, and my post regarding pin money for the First Ladies was included with many, many other great reads.

Well, looks like I’ve got some readin’ and clickin’ to do….Have a great weekend!

Two Carnivals and a Few links

The 53rd History Carnival is up at American Presidents Blog. There are many great history bloggers featured and wonderful articles presented, but these really stood out to me for various reasons.

1. How should history be taught? Beginning to end, end to beginning, by themes, by haphazard “chapter” hopping? Personally it depends on the age of your student. I believe my nine and ten year olds need history presented to them chronologically since it is the first time the curriculum is being offered to them. They don’t have the sequencing skills to skip around. Danny muses over this very issue in a well written post called Failings of Narrative History.

2. Frumteacher also writes about the teaching of history and is striving to make the subject relevant and interesting for his students in History and Irony.

3. Ever wonder why the rest of the world is so down on America? A Mile in My Enemy's Shoes is rather long, but it is a thoughtful look at American foreign policy. Whether you agree or not…it’s well written.

4. I love to visit the blog Walking the Berkshires. I just don’t get by as often as I would like. Greenmantim often writes about little known events in history that interest me. This month’s History Carnival included his post A Bright, Smart, and Successful Affair. It’s all about the first capture and destruction of an enemy war vessel by Americans in war.

5. Do you think the former Confederate states could ever have a legal reason to obtain an apology for illegal acts of annexation, invasion, or being part of the USA against the will of its citizens? Sounds far-fetched, I know. I’m certainly not of that mind, but M at World History Blog has written about a Georgia citizen who had a very important role in a post Civil War annexation that could set precident.

5. Passing It On included a post from his series about writing your own personal history.

The 122nd Education Carnival is up over at The Education Wonks. Like the History Carnival the entries are many. Here are some of my favorites listed by topic, but you need to head on over and choose your own.

1. Teacher certification...Do we need it? Can the process be fixed?

2. Why do some English learners "get it" and others don't?

3. The Department of Education Should be Abolished

4. History does have a place in the math classroom. I say BRAVO!

5. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Should fourth graders learn to spell it?

6. 22 absences out of 35 days, and the teacher should "make sure" the student passes?

7. When I was your age, television was called books. Mrs. Cornelius has once again made a great point. We are of the same era, and I agree wholeheartedly.

Many thanks to Jim for visiting this week and leaving his link to two very good articles he’s written about teaching the Civil War using You Tube. His website Teaching the Civil War With Technology begs for a complete exploration, however, the article here and here deals specifically with using You Tube. I’ve added Jim’s website to my history blogroll.

Other additions to the blogrolls include
Riley Central

A Difference

Changing High School and

Unscripted Learning in my education category.

Under the category for resources I’ve placed the following:

Voice of the Shuttle—this is a webportal for humanities research. There are many major categories to make your search easier for the sites you need.
and finally…..

Old Magazine Articles—It’s just as it says…..if you need older sources this is the place for you.

Carnivals, Carnivals, Carnivals

Run don’t walk to the Sixth Edition of the Georgia Carnival over at Blog for Democracy. Melanie did a fantastic job and we have some newbie submissions to enjoy.

There is a little bit of something for everyone in this edition…there’s a little history, literature, and self-examination concerning what being Southern means to some.

Throw in a famous Atlantan, the beauty that is Georgia, and dealing with cancer along with the future of education, small town photos, and big city politics, and you end up with a well rounded carnival that won’t take you all weekend to read.

The next Georgia Carnival will be returning to Georgia On My Mind on April 13th. Posts can be submitted to gamind@mail.com

Thanks for linking to the carnival and for mentioning it at your site to let more people know about it. :)

The Education Carnival can be found over at The Education Wonks and the History Carnival Aggregator is a new site that provides information regarding all of the various history carnivals.

The 49th History Carnival

Welcome to History Is Elementary! I’m honored to be your hostess here deep in the heart of the south. Pull up a chair and I’ll go pour you a tall glass of sweet iced tea. Stay awhile and enjoy the history offerings for this 49th history carnival.

I've tried to arrange posts by category, however, categories are not listed in any particular order.

German-American Relations

The Atlantic Review site states it recommends commentaries, analyses and reports on the United States and transatlantic relations and is edited by three German Fulbright Alumni: Jörg Wolf (Berlin), Sonja Bonin (Shanghai) and Jörg Geier (Hamburg). They advise they founded this private, independent, project with Scott Brunstetter (Washington DC) in July 2003 out of a concern for the deterioration of the US-German relationship. We have sent this digest to a German and an international Fulbright mailing list twice a month ever since.

Jörg Wolf gives us a taste of the site with these offerings----
When German Universities Were the Models for American Universities,
Only in Germany--The Captain of Koepenick's Historic Coup, and Black History Month in Germany. This final entry leads us into the next category…

Black History Month

Penney over at the Disability Studies, Temple U. wanted us to know they noted the birthday of Barbara Jordan on February 21 with February 21: Barbara Jordon (1936-1996). I remember hearing her on television as child. Wow, what a voice and she was such a great speaker.

American History

Tim Abbott over at Walking the Berkshires gives us the lighter side of the American Revolution with "The Misplaced Bones of William Dawes": With Apologies to Longfellow. He also provides an excellent account of his own ancestor a member of the “300 minuteman”, whose company got a late start toward Concord, but was in the thick of the fight at Bunker Hill” in the post
Too Late for Lexington But Not for Bunker Hill: Nathaniel Abbott and the Andover Minutemen. Tim advised I should choose between the two, but they were both on one of my favorite subjects….who can choose? Enjoy!

I offer my own post Nathanael Greene: Adopted Southern Son. One of the things I love about history is how it can take you down a road of twists and turns of relations, links, and cross-links. Nathanel Greene’s relationship with the state of Georgia is proof of that.

The Tour Marm from The Educational Tour Marm offers a portrait of Charles Willson Peale: Renaissance Man. Hmmmm…..mastodon bones, an avid collector of other bits of natural history, clockmaking, and over 60 completed portraits of Georgia Washington? Truly this is one interesting man!

Religion

Religion has been in the news a little in the past few days with tales about the tomb of Jesus and of course, Ash Wednesday. So, what do you think about a giant “sinner” helmet complete with arrows and flashing lights? Jarod of Jarod's Forge offers The History of Ash Wednesday: Totally Goth Since 960.

Chinese History

Alan of Frog in a Well and its sister site, 井底之蛙 gives us When Is a Farmer Not a Farmer? When He's Chinese: Then He's a Peasant. It’s a good bit of historiography.

At his interesting site, Barista David Tiley gives us a very thorough look at
The Plunder of Taklamakan. The largest sand-only desert in Central Asia has had quite a history. Many thanks to Sharon for pointing us down this portion of the Silk Road.

Scholarship and Pedagogy

Sharon over at Early Modern Web also submitted In Defense of Timelines by Jeremy Boggs of ClioWeb fame. I agree with Jeremy that it’s time for us to think seriously about the role of timelines for scholarship and pedagogy.

Sharon also submitted an excellent overview of doctoral programs by Ralph Luker of Cliopatria titled Wherein I Name a Dozen or More Doctoral Programs in History that Ought to be Shut Down. Make sure you check out the comments and weigh-in yourself.

Sonja Cole of Bookwink explains teachers looking to incorporate historical fiction into their lessons may find this video booktalk useful. This is a wonderful resource for upper elementary and middle school teachers as well as parents of students in grades 3 through 8.

When Time Periods Collide

Powerpoint presentations have become a mainstay of the education and business worlds. Mark Rayner of The Skwib, shows us what would happen if Gutenberg had had a few Powerpoint slides to present his case instead of a page from a book in The Lost Powerpoint Slides (Gutenberg Edition). Simply put it is historical humor in bullet point form.

Alun Salt of HNN's Rise and Dissent is asking, “Can you prove anything with statistics?” Can a binomial distribution provide an intelligible way of finding statistical significance? The subject matter is The Orientation of Roman Camps. I’m wondering…did the Romans know about statistics?

Weighing in on Wikipedia

The information age has provide more than a wealth of flora and fauna for every topic under the Sun, however, Jon Swift at Jon Swift is reminding all of us we need to check our source and teach our children and students to continually check their sources. In his post titled Conservapedia he advises, “Finally, there is an alternative to Wikipedia, which doesn't have any controversial ideas at all: Conservapedia. Conservapedia is based on good Christian values, unlike Wikipedia, which I gather from the name, is based on Wiccan.”

Nonpartisan over at Progressive Historians submits a post by Eugene asking Whither-Or Whether-Wikipedia? This is an excellent post on Wikipedia’s place in the world of historical academia and deserves a close read by history bloggers of all stripes.

The Victorian Age

The Victorians had so many strict social and moral codes. I doubt I would have made it in their world. Through Kristan Tetens and her blog The Victorian Peeper we learn that some of their customs weren’t so strict and a Group Revives Victorian Custom of Post-Mortem Portraiture to Help Grieving Parents.

Laurie Bluedorn over at Trivium Pursuit has put together a wonderful post called Home-Spun Artists: Historical Sketches--Beatrix Potter. There are many wonderful tid-bits about Potter’s life to ponder over.

The Past Is Prologue

Tying in today’s events to past events and looking at those little twists and turns that can change history this way and that are some of the reasons history lovers stay stay involved in the discipline. Nonpartisan from Progressive Historians states David Kaiser of History Unfolding is one of his favorite history bloggers, and provides one of Kaiser’s best titled How We Might Have Stopped Communism where he takes a modern problem and applies past events with a smidgen of “what if”.

Hugh Graham is interested in the deep origins for the history in the news…the long forgotten backstory that becomes our causes and effects of today. Hugh provides the backstory for The Lebanon Crisis at his site History In The News.

Ahistoricality advises, "Mr. Jones and I have our differences, but when he gets one right……" Ahistoricality nominates Grant Jones of The Dougout fame and his post Slings, Stones, and Hand-Cuffs regarding fourth generation warfare.

Well, that glass of tea is probably empty by now. I appreciate you stopping by and spending some time. The next edition of the History Carnival will be posted March 15th. You can submit your best historical blog writing here for the 50th History Carnival.

Two Great Carnivals to Visit

The Georgia Carnival is finally up at Georgia On My Mind and the 47th History Carnival is ongoing at Progressive Historians.

History Carnival 45

Eric Scott Kaufman has done a wonderful job of weaving together an entertaining post with many historical offerings at his blog, Acephalous for the 45th History Carnival. I’ve already forwarded a huge thank you to Mr. Kaufman for including one of my postings from earlier in the week.
I began my Christmas break as of 3:15 p.m. today so I’m glad I have plenty of history posts to enjoy!

Two Carnivals Involving History....I'm In Heaven

The midway over at the 44th History Carnival looks very full. I can't wait to dive in. It can be found here hosted by David Tiley at Barista.

Are you into ancient and medieval history? Check out Carnivalesque hosted by Even in a Little Thing here.

I've been doing some research into ancient African history and find it very interesting. The average person is aware of particular histories such as American, British, European, World.......but African history can be a mystery to some. I believe part of the problem stems from the fact that much of the history was oral and once imperialism reared its ugly head much of African history was lost or rewritten.

There's a whole other blog post in this ramblin'.....at any rate, go visit these carnivals.

You can never have enough history!

Carnival Time Doubled

What's better than one carnival? Why two, of course!

Mode For Caleb is hosting the History Carnival here while the Education Wonks is presenting the Carnival of Education here.

Enjoy!