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This podcast is for teachers, students, historians and Civil War buffs to learn how to find Civil War lesson plans, resources, and videos for teaching and learning about the Civil War.
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CleanTeaching the Civil War Podcast Episode 14 – Attending PETE&C | Thanks for staying subscribed to my podcast and I hope you enjoy listening. In this episode I talk a bit about my recent visit to the annual Pennsylvania Education Technology Expo and Conference (PETE&C). I also interview a teacher and learn about how she is having her students use primary sources and technology to create multimedia projects. Feedback on the show? email me at podcast@teachthecivilwar.com Follow Me on Twitter Music is by Mark Ferguson and is used with permission. Subscribe in iTunes SHOW LINKS: Pennsylvania Education Technology Expo and Conference (PETE&C) Social Studies 2.0 Session 8th Grade Social Studies at NFS | 2/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTeaching the Civil War Podcast Episode 13 – Google Earth and the Civil War | Thanks for staying subscribed to my podcast and I hope you enjoy listening. In this episode I talk a bit about how you can use Google Earth to teach and learn about the Civil War Feedback on the show? email me at podcast@teachthecivilwar.com Follow Me on Twitter Music is by Mark Ferguson and is used with permission. Subscribe in iTunes SHOW LINKS: Google Earth Blog posts about Google Earth History Tours Wiki | 1/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTeaching the Civil War Podcast Episode 12 | Thanks for staying subscribed to my podcast and I hope you enjoy listening. In this episode I talk a bit about a trip that my family and I took to Charleston, SC and our visit to Fort Sumter. Feedback on the show? email me at podcast@teachthecivilwar.com Follow Me on Twitter Music is by Mark Ferguson and is used with permission. Subscribe in iTunes SHOW LINKS: Fort Sumter National Monument | 1/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTeaching the Civil War Podcast Episode 11 | Thanks for staying subscribed to my podcast and I hope you enjoy listening. In this episode I present a brief interview that I did with author JD Petruzzi. I have done reviews of JD's books here before and it was nice to talk to him in person about his works. Feedback on the show? email me at podcast@teachthecivilwar.com Follow Me on Twitter Music is by Mark Ferguson and is used with permission. Subscribe in iTunes SHOW LINKS: JD Petruzzi's Website Complete Gettysburg Guide Website Gettysburg Campaign Handbook My Review of the Complete Gettysburg Guide | 12/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTeaching the Civil War Podcast Episode 10 | Thanks for staying subscribed to my podcast and I hope you enjoy listening. In this episode I discuss a recent trip to Middletown Virginia for the annual Battle of Cedar Creek reenactment, an interview with a Civil War embalming surgeon and an interview with Ranger John Hoptak. Feedback on the show? email me at podcast@teachthecivilwar.com Follow Me on Twitter Music is by the Mark Ferguson and is used with permission. Subscribe in iTunes SHOW LINKS: Battle of Cedar Creek reenactment Antietam National Battlefield Ranger Hoptaks's blog The Battle of South Mountain book by Ranger Hoptak | 11/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTeaching the Civil War Podcast Episode 9.5 – Happy Thanksgiving | Thanks for staying subscribed to my podcast and I hope you enjoy listening. Just a short episode today to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. Feedback on the show? email me at podcast@teachthecivilwar.com Follow Me on Twitter Music is by the Mark Ferguson and is used with permission. Subscribe in iTunes SHOW NOTES: Today is Thanksgiving and it is a holiday steeped in tradition. I wonder how many of you know that it was Abraham Lincoln who, on October 3, 1863, proclaimed “the last Thursday of November” as Thanksgiving Day. Another interesting bit of information is that a lady by the name of Sara J. Hale, the Editress of the “Ladys Book”, wrote a letter to President Lincoln on September 28, 1863 and asked him proclaim that day in November as a National Thanksgiving Day. I have included a copy of Lincoln's proclamation at the end of this post. In addition, I thought it would be interesting to show the following Alfred Waud sketch from the Library of Congress. This is a sketch of a Union camp on Thanksgiving in 1861. If you look closely you can see a soldier carrying a turkey and a dog waiting for him to drop a scrap. There are pots cooking over fires, and hungry men awaiting at a table on the right hand side. The TIFF version of the photo can be found HERE. So, while you are watching the parade and eating your turkey, pause and say thanks to the soldiers not only of today but of the Civil War era, for without them, what we have to be thankful for might be vastly different. A Proclamation The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theater of military conflict; while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battlefield; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, | 11/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTeaching the Civil War Podcast Episode 9 | Thanks for staying subscribed to my podcast and I hope you enjoy listening. In this episode I discuss how you can use Twitter to learn more about the Civil War. Be sure to follow me on Twitter, I'm @fifer1863 Feedback on the show? email me at podcast@teachthecivilwar.com Follow Me on Twitter Music is by the Excelsior Brigade Fifes and Drums and is used with permission. Subscribe in iTunes SHOW LINKS: My list of Civil War people to follow on Twitter | 11/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTeaching the Civil War Podcast Episode 8 | Thanks for staying subscribed to my podcast and I hope you enjoy listening. In this episode I discuss a recent trip that my daughter Sarah and I made to the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg. During this visit, we had the opportunity to meet Dr. Daisy Century who portrays Harriet Tubman Feedback on the show? email me at podcast@teachthecivilwar.com Follow Me on Twitter Music is by the Excelsior Brigade Fifes and Drums and is used with permission. Subscribe in iTunes SHOW LINKS: Resources on Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Resources | 10/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTeaching the Civil War Podcast Episode 7 | Thanks for staying subscribed to my podcast and I hope you enjoy listening. In this episode I discuss some ways teachers can use various Google tools to find resources for teaching the Civil War. Feedback on the show? email me at podcast@teachthecivilwar.com Follow Me on Twitter Music is by the Excelsior Brigade Fifes and Drums and is used with permission. Subscribe in iTunes SHOW LINKS: Google Alerts Google Advanced Search Google Custom Search (Example) Google Image Search Google Timeline (Example) Google News Google Earth (more from my Blog and History Tours) Google Sketchup Google Docs Google Sites | 9/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTeaching the Civil War Podcast Episode 6 | Thanks for staying subscribed to my podcast and I hope you enjoy listening. In this episode I discuss Civil War era music and some ways teachers can use Civil War music in their classrooms. Feedback on the show? email me at podcast@teachthecivilwar.com Follow me on Twitter Music is by the Excelsior Brigade Fifes and Drums and is used with permission. Subscribe in iTunes SHOW LINKS: Acoustic Shadows of the Blue and Gray Camp Chase Fifes and Drums 119th New York Fifes & Drums David Kincaid Library of Congress Links Civil War Sheet Music Collection Band Music from the Civil War Battle Hymn of the Republic | 8/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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