Civil War Stories

[Rsmyth]

Teachers use every trick at their disposal to get the class interested and then actually learn something. You cannot force feed a disinterested audience. If I were teaching history on an Indian reservation I do not think I would start out teaching about how great a general and warrior Custer was. If I was teaching in a predominantly minority inner city classroom I just may start out teaching about Rosa Parks and why (segregation) what she did was historic. When I have the students attention let them know that this separation of the races reached all the way back to when millions of Blacks in this country were slaves but the country was literally torn in two over this culminating in the worst war this country has ever seen and the abolishment of slavery by Lincoln. What Rosa Parks did was indeed historic but it was not an isolated event. It was the culmination of a series of historic events by historic people that led to that moment.