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		<title>Colonel Shaw, Sergeant Carney and the 54th Massachusetts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Boston Common, at the corner of Beacon and Park streets, stands what many consider to be the greatest public sculpture in the United States – The Shaw Memorial. The picture in this post is a shot I took of two of the twenty-three marching African American soldiers featured in the memorial. Click on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Alex Haley and Roots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing with my series of posts for Black History Month featuring outstanding African Americans, today I’ll be remembering Alex Haley and his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Roots. Whenever he spoke about Roots while giving talks in various parts of the country, Alex Haley would recall how, as a young boy, he sat on the front porch of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachhistory.com/2010/02/15/remembering-alex-haley-and-roots/</link>
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		<title>Black History Month: A Tribute to Phillis Wheatley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In honor of Black History Month this month, Newsweek magazine ran a web exclusive featuring an interview with Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., that I thought was excellent. In the interview, with regard to the month-long celebration, Professor Gates stated “I love Black History Month. But for me, every day is Black History [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachhistory.com/2010/02/09/black-history-month-a-tribute-to-phillis-wheatley/</link>
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		<title>Young Ben Franklin and the Silence Dogood Letters</title>
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I’ve always thought Benjamin Franklin was cool even back when I was in the sixth grade and chose to write a diary about his life for a school assignment. Thanks to my Mom for saving that little book (thirty-nine pages) and to my brother for rediscovering it recently. Brought back a lot of grade school [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachhistory.com/2010/01/13/young-ben-franklin-and-the-silence-dogood-letters/</link>
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		<title>Pirates of the Caribbean – Featuring my Sixth Great Grandfather</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was growing up, a family vacation to California enabled me to experience what to this day remains my favorite amusement park ride – Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean. I could have waited in line all day with my E ticket (anyone else remember those?) in hand just for the opportunity to go over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachhistory.com/2009/12/30/pirates-of-the-caribbean-%e2%80%93-featuring-my-sixth-great-grandfather/</link>
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		<title>Teachers: Are You Engaging AND Empowering Your Students?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this month&#8217;s issue of Principal Leadership, a publication of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), Chris Lehmann, Principal of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, authors an excellent article called Shifting Ground. In the piece, Mr. Lehmann notes that students today have fully embraced technology and now it is time for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachhistory.com/2009/12/22/teachers-are-you-engaging-and-empowering-your-students/</link>
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		<title>Resource for Teachers – Timothy Hughes Rare &amp; Early Newspapers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you teach history, social studies, are a home school parent or just simply a history buff, I’d like to introduce you to a wonderful resource for primary source materials – Timothy Hughes Rare &#38; Early Newspapers. At Teach History, I will only recommend a source if I have personal experience working with them, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachhistory.com/2009/12/18/resource-for-teachers-%e2%80%93-timothy-hughes-rare-early-newspapers/</link>
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		<title>Primary Source Audio Podcast: The Boston Tea Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Tea Party took place on this very day, December 16, two hundred and thirty six years ago. Today I’ll be wrapping up my series on the tea tax and the Tea Party by providing grade school teachers with a few valuable tools: a sampling of local press coverage in the days following the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachhistory.com/2009/12/16/primary-source-audio-podcast-the-boston-tea-party/</link>
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		<title>Covering the Annual Boston Tea Party Reenactment on Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday I attended the annual reenactment of the Boston Tea Party at Old South Meeting House celebrating the 236th Anniversary of the event. I decided to cover it using some of the latest technology available to any 21st century correspondent these days – with mobile device in hand (in my case an iPhone) I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachhistory.com/2009/12/15/covering-the-annual-boston-tea-party-reenactment-on-twitter/</link>
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		<title>Primary Source Focus: Protesting the Tax on Tea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party coming up on December 16 and the annual reenactment at Old South Meeting House scheduled for this Sunday, today I&#8217;ll be reviewing the events leading up to “the destruction of the tea” (as it was called back then), with a special focus on the first town meeting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachhistory.com/2009/12/12/primary-source-focus-protesting-the-tax-on-tea/</link>
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