Archives for the ‘History’ Category

Advertising Sleuth

May 12th, 2009 • Category: Food & Nutrition, History

See how many junk food and other corporate ads you can find at your school.



Book Review: ‘A Young People’s History of the United States’

Jan 25th, 2009 • Category: Books, History, Reviews

‘A Young People’s History of the United States’ provides students with a critical view of U.S. history in an easy-to-understand format



Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards

Jun 15th, 2007 • Category: Books, History, Reviews

Here are three of the 2007 winners of this book award, which selects the best books promoting peace.



In Your Face: The Culture of Beauty and You

Jun 15th, 2007 • Category: Books, History, Reviews

This book explores what people in various cultures have done to fit in, stick out or measure up. It helps us put beauty into perspective so we can stop feeling so controlled and influenced by it.



Leon’s Story

Jun 15th, 2007 • Category: Books, History, Reviews

A review of a book by Leon Walter Tillage about the life of an ordinary man who went through great struggles and tragedies only because of the color of his skin.



Stone Age Kids

Jun 15th, 2007 • Category: History, Science & the Environment

Archaeologists have found small painted handprints and pictures that might be the Stone Age’s version of graffiti — or doodling!



Turkish Denial of Armenian Genocide

Apr 15th, 2007 • Category: History

April 24 symbolizes the beginning of the Armenian Genocide, which destroyed 1.5 million Armenians, as well as hundreds of thousands of Assyrians and Pontic Greeks.



International Women’s Day

Feb 15th, 2007 • Category: History, Nation & World

The origins of International Women’s Day, March 8.



Hip Hop Hooray

Feb 15th, 2007 • Category: Culture & Activism, History

At Flushing International High School in Queens, NY students learned about hip hop history – the days when “the high was creativity rather than drugs,” said music teacher Beth Mabon-Grass. Students also wrote their own raps.



Who am I?

Nov 15th, 2006 • Category: History, Puzzles & Games

Clue: As a medical student, I traveled around Latin America and saw the conditions of the poor. I wrote a book about the trip and it became a movie in 2004 called The Motorcycle Diaries. Who am I?