by TeachCivilWar | Sep 7, 2009 | Lesson Plans, Miscellaneous Civil War topics, Teaching the Civil War Blog
Well, I’m not a statistician by any means and I even struggled with the stats for my dissertation. But for some reason, I have quite a few blog posts on statistics. So, why not one more: The following tables are the number of Union and Confederate soldiers who...
by TeachCivilWar | Aug 16, 2009 | Civil War Related Websites, Miscellaneous Civil War topics, Teaching the Civil War Blog
Eric Langhorst, over at the Speaking of History Blog presented at the METC 2008 Conference on Hardtack to Hard Drives. The presentation is related to Eric’s use of the book Guerrilla Season in order to integrate blogs into his classroom. What really got me...
by TeachCivilWar | May 20, 2009 | Miscellaneous Civil War topics
Today was the state-wide competition for the Pennsylvania Middle School Computer Fair was held at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. As you know, my daughter Sarah has her Civil War Sallie project and she had entered her project in the Web Page Design...
by TeachCivilWar | May 8, 2009 | Miscellaneous Civil War topics
For those of you who don’t know, del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site where people can store links to their favorite websites and access them from anywhere rather than being tied to a single computer. One of the cool things about del.icio.us is being able to...
by TeachCivilWar | Apr 16, 2009 | Miscellaneous Civil War topics
Eric Langhorst is an 8th grade American History teacher in Liberty, Missouri and runs the Speaking of History podcast and blog. Eric has some great resources on his website for using Web 2.0 technologies into the teaching of History. Eric recorded the presentation of...
by TeachCivilWar | Apr 4, 2009 | Miscellaneous Civil War topics
The December 2008 issue of The New England Quarterly has an interesting podcast, “From Mashantucket to Appomattox: The Native American Veterans of Connecticut’s Volunteer Regiments and the Union Army.” This podcast gives a unique perspective on...
