Best Websites for Historic and Contemporary Interviews
The Mike Wallace Interviews was a series of prime-time television interviews conducted between 1957 and 1960. Wallace donated 65 interviews conducted between 1957 and...
On This Day: Iraq Invades Kuwait, Leading to Persian Gulf War
On Aug. 2, 1990, Iraqi soldiers invaded the Gulf state of Kuwait in the early morning hours, precipitating the start of the Persian Gulf...
Three Kansas HS Students “Changed Poland and Changed the World”
Can students really change the world?
In 1999, in connection with a National History Day project, three Kansas high school students wrote a play that drastically...
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Today
The first installment of the serial “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” appeared in a periodical on June 5, 1851. The serial’s popularity was so immense that...
Research Includes Learning Directly From Experts; 7 Easy Ways to Do So
This post is an exceprt from the Choose2Matter Course, a self-paced, online course.
It helps educators change the way they view their students, and themselves, and their...
On This Day: United States Drops Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima
On Aug. 6, 1945, U.S. war plane Enola Gay dropped “Little Boy,” a 8,900-pound atomic bomb, on Hiroshima, Japan. Within eight days, Japan surrendered,...
