My American Newspaper
 History from a student's perspective

Our country has grown in so many ways over so much time – it is sometimes hard to teach the scope of the cultural changes that have occurred.  Today, technology is so taken for granted that we forget what it was like to live and learn 100 and 200 years ago, let alone what our grandparents went through. While school and standardized tests focus on the larger events, the smaller sometimes more meaningful ones in the developments of today’s world get lost in the shuffle.

For example:
•   The first railroad wasn’t for a train, but for a wagon carrying slabs of granite from a quarry to the  Bunker Hill Monument.
•   Clarence Birdseye was a part-time park ranger who learned some quick freeze techniques from Eskimos.  He didn’t just sell frozen carrots, but invented the packaging and helped grocery stores lease refrigeration units.
•    The same World War that introduced the use of atomic weapons and radar also saw the Army Signal Corps use over 50,000 pigeons to send messages.
•   Jesse Chisholm, who blazed the Chisholm Trail from Texas to Kansas, worked for the government developing relationships with Native American tribes.


My American Newspaper is dedicated to teaching about these things in a way that makes it more real to today’s student – written as a newspaper article, or journal, by a person their age.


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