I launched my first website with Microsoft FrontPage in 1999. I thought Web 1.0 was sooo cool. Two decades later here is a visual representation of my digital classroom. A LMS hub seamlessly integrated with a powerful collection interactive learning applications. Ready-Set-Go!
Rise to the Occasion
I have decided to re-purpose the message from my 2015 APUSH Exam day T-Shirt "Rise to the Occasion" for the entire 2020-2021 campaign. I am excited to tackle the next phase of this journey in collaboration with such a talented network of professionals - near and far. Let's Go!!
APUSH Summer Assignment
I have experimented with a wide range of summer assignment ideas over the past decade. The course has changed, my population has changed and the summer assignment has changed. This year it is a simple writing sample so I can get a sense of their historical thinking skills. '
“What elements of the 1893 painting of Christopher Columbus landing in New World can be used to explain the causes and consequences of European voyages of exploration?
1893 painting of Christopher Columbus landing in New World (Prang Educational Co.)
The AP Mindset
Coach Sabin on College Gameday
Jack Roosevelt Robinson
In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt made history by inviting Booker T Washington to dine at the executive mansion. Eighteen years later a family of sharecroppers honored this gesture of implied social equality by naming their newborn son Jack Roosevelt Robinson
The Ferris Wheel
In 1893 a graduate of RPI, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., created a structure for the World's Columbian Exposition. It was inspired by the Burden Water Wheel, part of an industrial complex on the Hudson River and Wynantskill Creek in Troy, New York.
Echoes, 1918
Echoes, 1940
History repeats itself. Anti-vac comic from the 1940s. From https://twitter.com/WeirdHistoryPix
James Cleveland Owens
In 1913 the son of sharecroppers from Alabama moved with his family to the northern city reflected in his middle name. James Cleveland Owens would emerge as a track star at Ohio State and go on to debunk Hitler's myth of Aryan superiority at the 1936 Olympics.
Jordan Rules
July 5, 1852
In 1852, the Ladies Anti-Slavery Society of Rochester, New York, invited Frederick Douglass to give a July Fourth speech. Douglass opted to speak on July 5 instead. '“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”' by We the People https://megaphone.link/NCC3195222942 Listen. Reflect. Share.
We Hold These Truths...
We hold these truths to be self evident...that all Americans should celebrate the greatest break-up letter ever written while sporting patriotic face masks at an appropriate social distance.
I Feel You Abe
The winning sand sculpture of the Texas Sand Sculpture Festival.
Manifest Destiny
On this day in 1845 - “manifest destiny” appeared in print for the first time. It was coined by journalist John L O’Sullivan in an essay that urged the US to annex Texas. Supporters of the concept used it to justify the Mexican War one year later. Courtesy of @InThePastLane
Monumental Problems
In light of the Robert E. Lee Statue in Richmond being targeted for removal https://n.pr/2MvI0vZ, it's worth revisiting Mitch Landrieu's 2017 remarks on Confederate monuments https://bit.ly/2Y3BIJE and taking another look at the AFP graphic posted in August of that year.
Bookshelf - Racial Inequality
History is remembered backwards, but lived forward. Here are four books that painfully capture the long standing racial inequalities in the United States and can help to more fully understand the collateral consequences playing out in the streets of America.
Plot, Plan and Organize
Rapper Killer Mike gave an impassioned call for citizens of Atlanta to plot, plan, and organize in the wake of George Floyd's murder. https://bit.ly/2yRDMf4. If you are looking for a playbook for this approach, research the story of Judge Waties Waring https://bit.ly/3dnRMMt
John Brown's Body
Stumbled upon this historical marker in Elizabethtown, NY.
Hockey and History
The Atlanta Flames were an NHL hockey team from 1972 until 1980. The franchise was named the Flames in homage to the burning of Atlanta by U.S. Army general William Sherman during the American Civil War. They kept the name when the franchise moved to Calgary.
