Tag: slavery
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We Need More Booker T. Washington
As a history teacher, I made sure to excerpts from Booker T. Washington’s autobiography, “Up From Slavery,” into the curriculum. It is of course a fascinating and enlightening study of one boy’s rise out of slavery to become one of the foremost scholars and respected leaders in American history. Now his views did not come…
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Rights, The Declaration of Independence, & the Louisiana School System
In this fascinating article by Tom Lindsey Is the Declaration of Independence Based on a Lie which I’ve started using in my history and government class, Lindsey brings up a rejected bill in the Louisiana State Assembly which would have required school students to recite a portion of the Declaration of Independence before school. Representative Norton, who…
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History: Booker T. Washington’s “Up from Slavery”
Booker T. Washington’s autobiography “Up from Slavery” is the classic look at post-slavery, post-Civil War America that is both instructive, surprising, and insightful for our modern society. Washington was a young boy when he received his freedom after the war, and he had the insatiable desire for learning. He would let nothing stop him, no…
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Know Your History: What the Emancipation Proclamation Really Did
It freed the slaves. Not really. What’s the deal? Let’s break it down a little so we can understand exactly why Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was a master stroke of genius – even if it didn’t free one slave! It was late summer in 1962 and the war between the Union and Confederacy was not…
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The Best Spielberg Movie you may never have heard of.
Shortlisted are the movies which I actually enjoy seeing more than once. I’ve become such a crab around movies that my family sometimes doesn’t like to go to the cinema with me. Maybe it’s just me, but if a production house is spending tens of millions of dollars to produce a piece of entertainment, why…
Author Mark W Sasse 