Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
12-15-2011
Department 1
Civil War Era Studies
Abstract
Earlier this week, the folks over at the Gettysburg National Military Park Facebook page posted a link to their Gettysburg School Bus blog highlighting a post on integrating the Civil War into a language arts curriculum. I love the concept. I think in the current educational environment, which seems to be spurning history and social studies in primary classrooms, anywhere we can integrate the stories of the past into the state's standards, sneaking the history back in, is awesome.
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Recommended Citation
Rudy, John M., "The Past is a Foreign Country: But They Still Eat Ketchup There" (2011). Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public. 163.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/interpretcw/163
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Comments
Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public is written by alum and adjunct professor, John Rudy. Each post is his own opinions, musings, discussions, and questions about the Civil War era, public history, historical interpretation, and the future of history. In his own words, it is "a blog talking about how we talk about a war where over 600,000 died, 4 million were freed and a nation forever changed. Meditating on interpretation, both theory and practice, at no charge to you."