Two questions keep coming up…..

Should the United States government formally apologize for slavery? 

Should various former slave-holding states formally apologize for the horrendous practice of slavery? 

As of March, 2008 six states have apologized for slavery….Florida/… Read full post »

I've written before that students often arrive in my room having seen the same MLK videos, having completed the same MLK worksheets, and read the same MLK books in order to celebrate certain milestones in the American Civil Rights Movement or Dr. King’s birthday. After discussing the situation… Read full post »

Recently a rare Bugatti sportscar was found in a garage in Britain.  The car, an extremely rare 1937 Bugatti Type 57S Atalante, was owned by a doctor who did drive the car for a time, but had stored the car since the 1960s in his garage. 

A picture of the… Read full post »

When I teach the English colonies I tend to follow the same format teachers do all across the United States.  Before discussing the original 13 colonies we hit on major firsts for all the heavy-hitting players—Spain’s first settlements, the first settlements for France, and then we b/… Read full post »

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 supervis/… Read full post »

This bailout thing has me pissed off…royally.  How has the greatest nation on earth….the nation that can do anything….the nation that was forged when a group of so called rabble-rousers stood up to the King of England…the nation that mobilized one of the greatest figh/… Read full post »

I’ve been in the middle of home renovations for what seems like forever.  New hardwood floors, new appliances, updated furniture, etc.  We get one room halfway cleaned up, and it’s time to tear another one down not to mention the decisions on color, fabric, and window treatments/… Read full post »

I’m so tired of the never-ending round of Palin “gotchas”.  Enough already.

I did find Charles Krauthammer’s post from the Washington Post  to be quite interesting mainly because it shed a little more light on what some think was a “gotcha” and pro/… Read full post »

Everyone has there own story regarding the moment they learned that the Twin Towers had been attacked.  This is my “Where were you?” story.  

September 11, 2001 began like any other September school day; however, it was abnormally quiet since T.’s seat was uncharacter… Read full post »

Back in February during the height of the Presidential Primary process I created an article with several campaign ads and discussed a method to engage students in a method of comparing and contrasting ads.   Within the last few days both of the ads I present here today have appeared in my… Read full post »

Way back in June, 2007 I visited Mississippi and toured the home of James A. Quitman of “Halls of Montezuma” fame.  Pictures from Quitman’s home, Monmouth, can be seen here while you can learn more about Quitman’s service to his county here. While I don’t agree with… Read full post »

This is my first post here at OpenSalon.com.  I’m very excited at the prospect of joining the community, and I look forward to meeting many new online readers and friends.  As I set this site up I decided I needed to introduce myself a bit and decided that the best way/… Read full post »