Eric Langhorst is an 8th Grade History teacher from Illinois and is the host of the Speaking of History podcast. Well, a while back he made a trip to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum and recorded a podcast of his thoughts on the museum. You can view pictures...
Since I have posted on The Gettysburg Address in the past, I thought I would share this USA Today headline article about a “new” image of Abe Lincoln at Gettysburg being found at the Library of Congress. The story discusses how an amateur historian was...
While the website is from 2006, here is an interesting idea on how to use a blog in the classroom. http://dowell.typepad.com/harriet_tubman/ The students in this classroom have researched a historical figure and created a blog that reflects entries as that historical...
There is a very good book called Mr. Lincoln’s T-Mails by Tom Wheeler that I encourage everyone to read. The book discusses how President Lincoln used technology, in this case the telegraph, to stay connected with his troops in the field. In today’s...
Hi. As you know I have a project called Civil War Sallie and she recently visited Fords Theater in Washington DC so I thought I would share her post here on my dad’s blog. I just came back from a busy few days at the National Education...
Here is another cool use of VoiceThread for your classroom. Melanie Lewis is an Instructional Technology Resource Teacher in Virgina and has created a webpage called Lincoln Loved Learning. Mrs. Lewis has taken several images from the life of Abraham Lincoln and...
