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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. We’d examine historical images of Native American life from the Museum of Photographic Arts, other historical photos from the U.K.

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The History of the Civil War in Kentucky: Chapter 5 – West Point, Sherman, and Fort Duffield

Life and Landscapes

I present it here as a series of individual blogs for my readers. Links to the previously published chapters will be provided at the end of each blog. The City of West Point does an excellent job of identifying and highlighting its history. It deals primarily with the Central Kentucky Theater.

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SURROUNDING: Munfordville!

Life and Landscapes

The American Cave Conservation Association has built a wonderful museum there through which you can enter down. Treating and piping cleaned water to the Green River downstream from Munfordville, not far from where the mysterious Hidden River releases its water burden. The fumes are gone. Put on your helmet, and they will take you in.

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I remember the Riots, and much more from the 1960s

Life and Landscapes

The National Civil Rights Museum, housed in the Lorraine Motel where he was killed, is worthy of your visit. I was driving back to Falls Church, Virginia, where my family was living. I didn’t know what it meant. Martin Luther King was killed on April 4, in 1968, in Memphis.

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