Mr. T, an 8th grade American Cultures teacher at Hershey Middle School, is the author of the American Cultures 2.0 blog. While reviewing his blog recently, I noticed that he has developed two great uses of Web 2.0 technologies for teaching the Civil War. The first one...
I’m starting to use Google Earth more and more these days for different projects and presentations. So in addition to previous posts related to Google Earth, I was looking around for some resources today and happened onto the Pennsylvania Civil War Trails...
As many of you know, the Library of Congress has a website called Selected Civil War Photographs. This page makes browsing the photographs easy because they have a Search feature, a Subject browse, or you can look at photos from each year of the War. There is also...
I have to admit right up front that I am not a big user of YouTube. I have viewed some clips that people have sent me but I’m not a regular user. That being said, someone sent me a link the other evening to a video of a Civil War Fife & Drum...
NOTE: This is an updated post from my old blog Last time I talked about the paintings of Peter Rothermel currently on display at the State Museum of Pennsylvania. Today, I’d like to talk about two more artists and how you can have students create their own...
Here is a another Civil War acrostic poem. This time I chose Harriet Tubman. She was a runaway slave who helped other slaves go to freedom and white people called abolitionists helped them get to freedom. Having faith in herself Arriving in free land with runaway...
