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Just a high school history teacher doing some reading and thinking about history and stuff.

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Ok did anyone else catch where, in the new โ€œThe American Revolutionโ€ series by Ken Burns, a solider who was actively having one leg amputated after the Battle at Saratoga and a cannonball comes into the operating space and takes off his other leg?!? ๐Ÿคฏ actively searching for more info on this.

26.11.2025 01:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What I mean by sympathy is his notion of being sympathetic to parties since we know the outcome of events. Something I am thinking about quite a bit for my own teaching today.

25.11.2025 06:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Just read this wonderful little book that is a discussion with the historian Bernard Bailyn. As a new history teacher, I love resources like this one that speak to the practical experience in teaching and in doing history. I was especially struck by his notions of sympathy. #history #bernardbailyn

25.11.2025 06:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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