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Yes, John Wilkes Booth did Speak Those Notorious Words At Lincoln's Last Speech | History News Network
Yes, John Wilkes Booth did Speak Those Notorious Words At Lincoln's Last Speech | History News Network
This article shows the depth of research necessary to determine the authenticity of a "historical fact" that many people take for granted. If respected historians agree that John Booth said something - do we all know he actually said it? That is the chain of custody that takes a quote from the past and brings it to the present?
#historiography#President Abraham Lincoln
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Yes, John Wilkes Booth did Speak Those Notorious Words At Lincoln's Last Speech | History News Network
St. Paul’s Episcopal and the Limits of Public History | CIVIL WAR MEMORY
St. Paul’s Episcopal and the Limits of Public History | CIVIL WAR MEMORY
Although this article may have a better place with college students than high school students, teachers who read it may be inspired to find ways to bring this topic to their classes in valuable lessons that explore the purpose and meaning of history in a particularly vital and worthwhile way. How should the present deal with the past?
#historiography#US I Unit 5 Civil War
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St. Paul’s Episcopal and the Limits of Public History | CIVIL WAR MEMORY
A Mistaken Form of Trust: Ken Burns’s The Civil War At Thirty - The Journal of the Civil War Era
A Mistaken Form of Trust: Ken Burns’s The Civil War At Thirty - The Journal of the Civil War Era
Great piece for any teacher who uses elements of the Burn documentary in class. This doesn't mean you have to through out the wonder Ballou letter sequence, but it does mean that any documentary or movie you show in class is suspect, and a reflection of it's time as well as the past it protrays. The trick to truly effective history teaching, is making students aware of this also
#teaching history#historiography#US I Unit 5 Civil War
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A Mistaken Form of Trust: Ken Burns’s The Civil War At Thirty - The Journal of the Civil War Era
In Renovation of Golf Club, Donald Trump Also Dressed Up History - The New York Times
In Renovation of Golf Club, Donald Trump Also Dressed Up History - The New York Times
Teachers could use this article and others like it describing the "River of Blood" monument between the 14th and 15th holes of the Trump Golf Course in Virginia as an example of how public memory and historical scholarship interact. Historians know the statement on the monument is false, there is no evidence to support what it says. What role does this play in public memory?
#historiography#5th Grade Unit 6 - Civil War#US I Unit 5 Civil War
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In Renovation of Golf Club, Donald Trump Also Dressed Up History - The New York Times
President Lincoln Assassinated!!: The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Trial, and Mourning - YouTube
President Lincoln Assassinated!!: The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Trial, and Mourning - YouTube
1 hour lecture from Harold Holzer on Lincoln's Assassination. at 13:30 he speaks about the story of Booth saying "this means negro citizenship" which appears in many, many accounts of the assassination. The level of detail is important - not so much for getting the facts absolutely established, but for demonstrating how readers commonly come across accounts of the past with facts that appear to be absolutely established but are not.
#historiography#President Abraham Lincoln#US I Unit 5 Civil War
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President Lincoln Assassinated!!: The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Trial, and Mourning - YouTube