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I have to admit that schools have a habit of glorifying parts of history. The review focuses on the Pilgrims and the traditions that stem from the Thanksgiving story. I really like Tony Horowitz writing style. He is telling the story of the myths and the people that created them. It is important to remember that even if we take out these stories from the history books they are engrained in society. Pilgrims and Indians are depicted in plays, movies and tv specials. I think it is not our job to i… Continue

I have to admit that schools have a habit of glorifying parts of history. The review focuses on the Pilgrims and the traditions that stem from the Thanksgiving story. I really like Tony Horowitz writing style. He is telling the story of the myths and the people that created them. It is important to remember that even if we take out these stories from the history books they are engrained in society. Pilgrims and Indians are depicted in plays, movies and tv specials. I think it is not our job to i… Continue

I want to teach social studies and history because I am fascinated by the past. I enjoyed history in middle and high school but in college I was exposed to a type of instruction I had not had much experience with. My first US history professor in college colored his lectures with real stories. He introduced us to the actual people we were studying. We went to the Southern Historical Collection, which was housed on campus, we were able to read letters, decipher ledgers, examine hand drawn maps fr… Continue

A decade in United States history that I find particularly interesting is the 1960’s. The 1960’s changed the face of America in every aspect, social, political, civil, military, etc. The 1960’s were a departure from the more conservative, social conformists 1950’s. The counterculture led to a change in many United States policies, it was the youth of America responding to what they saw as stifling, outdated leaders. In 1960 John F. Kennedy was elected president. We narrowly escaped a nuclear dis… Continue

I can remember a few movies vividly that I was required to watch in school. One such film was Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, which I watched in a civics class. This movie taught me about corrupt politics as well as what a filibuster was. It was made in 1939. I looked up Mr. Smith Goes to Washington to see if it was still frequently used in classrooms today and it turns out that in 1989, the Library of Congress added it to the US National Film Registry. They did so because the movie was “culturall… Continue