History

Blogs Workshop

Although there were only two teachers able to make it, I learned a lot teaching my first blog workshop. For more info, go here.

More Brown Sources

If you go to here , you will find more information about the production that will be broadcast again on Monday. Also, click on the "Resources" button at the top for even more web sites and films - lots of great stuff here.

Also you can visit anationacts.brownvboard.org for free copies of a play that you can use with your students - it's called Now Let Me Fly and was commissed by the Brown Foundation and Washburn University examining the stories of everyday people who fought to desegregate schools across the US.

It's been great working with you and we've tentatively planned another 1-day IDL presentation in partnership with the National Archives on October 5. Our subject focus will be westward expansion and the "old west." You may also check back to http://teachinghistory.typepad.com/history - we will post more informaiton there as it becomes available.

Pittsburg Morning Sun article

Olive Sullivan at the Pittsburg Morning Sun did a very nice article on yesterday's event.

Brown v. Board of Education IDL Broadcast

Students from all over eastern Kansas attended a virtual discussion session with important living historical figures on May 7, 2004 sponsored by the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, PA. They were able to talk to Linda Brown, whose picture is the symbol of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, her sister Cheryl Brown Henderson, and one of the lawyers who helped prepare the case, Earl E. Pollack, Esq.

There is a photo album with pictures from the Greenbush site to the right of this post - just click on the picture and it will open up the album. If you click on one of the pictures once the album is open, you can view each picture in larger format and see a slide show. . .

If you were one of the teachers or students who attended this broadcast, please click below (at the bottom of this post) and submit your comments about what you thought about getting to talk to these historic figures. Thanks to all the teachers who brought their students to Greenbush and to Leavenworth: Mrs. Lang, Mrs. Hutton, Mr. Moss, Mr. Thomasson, Mr. Varsolona, Ms. Hughes, and Mr. Scircle.

A big thank you goes out to Greenbush - especially to Carol and Jon - for making the technical and people end of this project all go together. Diana at the National Archives and Records Administration Central Plains Region - Kansas City is responsible for getting the ball rolling in Kansas and her able staff - Mary, Steve, and Kimberly - helped make it all happen.

The Brown National Historic Site will be dedicated on May 17, 2004 in Topeka and Ms. Hughes and Mr. Moss are going to be there! We hope they come back here and post their comments for us when they get back. If you want more information about this event - even President George W. Bush is supposed to be there - please click here.