Here’s an excellent video for Bruce Springsteen’s song about the Wall, which opened to the public on Nov. 13, 1982. Videos can be interesting additions to lessons.
Douglas Bader was born on Feb. 21, 1910 to an upper class British family. His father was wounded in WWI and died in 1922. Douglas went to fine schools, but was not focused on academics. Read more…
Henry Flipper was born a slave in 1856. He attended Atlanta University until he got an appointment to West Point. He joined four other blacks who were already there. They underwent harassment from white cadets. Read more…
In 1855, Senator Jefferson Davis got Congress to appropriate $30,000 to purchase camels in the Middle East for use by the Army in the West. The theory was that camels would do better than Read more…
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