Lots of cool history, so little time in the classroom.
Cool button from Teddy Roosevelt’s winning 1898 campaign for governor of New York.
Via the Clinton Ivan Winslow Political Memorabilia Collection in the Goucher College Library Special CollectionsAw YISS.
US Marines Stanley A. Parks (left) and Randolph Peters pose for the camera with the M1A1 Flamethrower and a M1A carbine, Peleliu, 1944.
(via greatestgeneration)
The Declaration of Independence, by Thomas Jefferson. 1776.
“I don’t even know what crumpets are”
You and me both, Thomas. You and me both.
Smile Colonel Shaw~
“There they march, warm-blooded champions of a better day for man. There on horseback among them, in his very habit as he lived, sits the blue-eyed child of fortune, upon whose happy youth every divinity had smiled . . ” Oration by William James at the exercises in the Boston Music Hall, May 31, 1897, upon the unveiling of the Shaw Monument.
ArtByStacey@CivilWarParlor
Major Newton Cole was captured on 19 June 1944, D+13 near St. Lô. On 4 July 1944, he wrote his wife, Marion, back in Medford, Massachusetts, telling of his cap
50 years ago today, JFK hosted a group of American high school students at the White House, one of whom happened to be 16-year-old Bill Clinton.
(via puttingsocialbackinsocialstudies)
“Trail of the hide hunters. Buffalo lying dead in snow, 1872.”
From: The National Archives
South Korean POWs are still being held in the North sixty years after the end of the war.
This is my favorite video that I show to students all year. Just wait until Ben Franklin starts wailing on electric guitar.