History revealed with documents’ release

Today’s All Things Considered had a fascinating story about the surprises that come to light when archives are released.  Bush and Thatcher were resistant to the Berlin Wall’s collapse while Gorbachev cheered it on?  Wow!

 

Letters of Note

I’ve been looking forward to the opportunity to highlight the excellent “Letters of Note” blog, and today I found it.  Letters of Note features “correspondence deserving of a wider audience”, and through it I’ve found fascinating letters offering insight into history as lived.

Today’s entry is timely:  A message from the depths of the Great Depression.

Atomic Platters – Teaching the Cold War with Pop

High school teachers spend teach their students about the distant world of Cold War fears and tensions.  How cool a resource is Atomic Platters – a website devoted to Cold War pop music?

Structured Academic Controversy (SAC) in the History Classroom

Diana Hess introduced us to the value of SAC at the 2008 Constitutional Connections Summer Institute.  SAC is explained – with a lesson plan on Lincoln – in a new entry on the National History Education Clearinghouse site.

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