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SATIRE: Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions

In light of Paris 2015 - The Onion - as usual - nails it.  Full piece HERE.

Started by Ryan Goble

0 Nov 23, 2015

Harvey Pekar's Cleveland

Harvey Pekar was a pioneering colossus of autobiographical comics, and this was among his last books, a graphic history about the place th…

Started by Stergios Botzakis

0 Nov 20, 2015

Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb

Trinity is just what the title says, a graphic history of the first atomic bomb. This account details the Manhattan Project, the top secre…

Started by Stergios Botzakis

0 Nov 15, 2015

Omaha Beach on D-Day

This book is a unique one, an auspicious beginning of a series of books that are part graphic novel, part photo-essays, and part historica…

Started by Stergios Botzakis

0 Nov 9, 2015

OP-ED: How Texas Teaches History

You likely heard this story (shared here earlier) Texas Mom Calls Out Textbook Company for Calling Slavery ‘Immigration’ and Slaves ‘Worker…

Started by Ryan Goble

0 Oct 29, 2015

VIDEO: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Columbus Day - How Is That Still A Thing (HBO)

Excellent short from John Oliver... See the Zinn Education project essay Time to Abolish Columbus Day for a more school friendly discuss…

Started by Ryan Goble

0 Oct 12, 2015

Texas Mom Calls Out Textbook Company for Calling Slavery ‘Immigration’ and Slaves ‘Workers’

Read about this at The Root. Ultimately the story made it all the way to the Times. Round of applause for this mom please! Here is your c…

Started by Ryan Goble

0 Oct 8, 2015

Library of Congress to hold free online conference on using primary source documents

The Library of Congress is hosting a free online conference October 27-28 for educators on how to use primary source documents in their ins…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Oct 5, 2015

RESOURCE: Teaching Suffragette

A UK film education site has created some teaching materials (to accompany the October release of the new film) that might be useful to Soc…

Started by Frank W. Baker

2 Oct 2, 2015
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The Underground Abductor

If you have been reading my blog and paying attention, you pretty much know that I think Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales are some of the bes…

Started by Stergios Botzakis

0 Sep 16, 2015

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