history

Can history be funny? With this entertaining joke book it sure can be. This hilarious volume is brimming with jokes about the past that will have readers laughing with glee.

Presents fifty document-based lesson plans designed to help students learn about world history, geography, government, and economics.

"The recent wave of statues, building names, and other monuments memorializing figures like Christopher Columbus and Confederate generals being removed from public spaces and college campuses has brought the reassessment of historical figures to the fore. It has raised questions about whom we choose to venerate; how historical narratives form; and whether it is best to erase problematic figures from the historical record, present a new interpretation on them, or attempt to be as unbiased as possible by contemporary attitudes when regarding them. Readers will learn more about this timely and complicated issue through a wide range of perspectives"--Provided by publisher.

Why were the Easter Island heads erected? What really happened to the Maya? Who stole the Irish Crown Jewels? The first book in this exciting new series will cover history's heavy-hitting, head-scratching mysteries, including the Lost Colony of Roanoke, the Bermuda Triangle, the Oak Island Money Pit, Stonehenge, the Sphinx, the disappearance of entire civilizations, the dancing plague, the Voynich manuscript, and so many more. Chock-full of cool photos, fun facts, and spine-tingling mysteries.

Presents miscellaneous information from ancient to modern times covering the worlds of science, nature, and history.

From Past to Present reproduces a series of articles written by long-time Town of Williamson Historian Chester A. Peters in 1982 at the request of the towns Apple Blossom Committee. THey were first published in The Williamson Sun between February and June of that year.

"Readers take on the role of historical detectives as they examine photographs as primary sources and discover how they can be used to study the past."--Publisher.