Thursday, August 29, 2024
EXPOSED: Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Cabin
Monday, August 26, 2024
The Truth About Abraham Lincoln
"My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.
Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.
When the truth becomes known to young
While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a
Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.
Ten score and three years ago, a man was sent to Earth to destroy slavery, unite a broken country and vanquish vicious vampires.
Abraham Lincoln was not only our 16th president, but he was also on a lifelong mission to destroy these undead, blood sucking devils.
But the vampires that the Great Emancipator sets out to destroy are not your teenage sister's sparkly, lovesick, whining vampires.
Early in his life, Lincoln discovered that vampires have been a part of American history since the first European settler hopped off a boat and that the slave trade keeps vampires under control for food.
Lincoln then made a vow: "I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America."
The future president tried to do just that. He drives stakes into a few of the vampires here. He cuts some of their heads off there. He even lights a few on fire. Up and down the Mississippi, he chops through the undead like he's clearing a forest for some creepy railroad.
At least that's the picture painted by Seth Grahame-Smith in his novel "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter." The book became a best seller and a blockbuster movie in part because it is an interesting cross between fact and fiction.
But the sad truth is that what most of us know about American History comes from Hollywood.
1) Is Seth Grahame-Smith’s book a Primary or Secondary source?
2) What about the Journal his work is based on? Primary or Secondary?
5) Why did we really fight the Civil War? What was the outcome?
Monday, August 19, 2024
Do You See What I See?
Concentrate on this picture for at least 30 seconds then look away and write down everything that you saw. Share with the person next to you. Did you see the same things? How is this like History?
What is taking place in this scene? Where did this event take place? How Many of these famous 'Founding Fathers" can you identify? Did this event even actually happen as it is shown?
Is this painting 'Bad History' as Adams called it? What did he mean when he says the 'true' history of the American Revolution is lost.... forever?
John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence is a 12-by-18-foot oil-on-canvas painting in the United States Capitol Rotunda that depicts the presentation of the draft of the Declaration of Independence to Congress. It was based on a much smaller version of the same scene, presently held by the Yale University Art Gallery.[1] Trumbull painted many of the figures in the picture from life and visited Independence Hall as well to depict the chamber where the Second Continental Congress met. The oil-on-canvas work was commissioned in 1817, purchased in 1819, and placed in the rotunda in 1826.
Is this painting a 'primary' or 'secondary' source. What is the difference?
Adams & Jefferson were the only two Founding Fathers still alive when Trumbull's painting was completed. When did they die?
What was David McCullough's historical interpretation of John Adams?
What is taking place in this scene? Where did this event take place? How Many of these famous 'Founding Fathers" can you identify? Did this event even actually happen as it is shown?
Is this painting 'Bad History' as Adams called it? What did he mean when he says the 'true' history of the American Revolution is lost.... forever?
John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence is a 12-by-18-foot oil-on-canvas painting in the United States Capitol Rotunda that depicts the presentation of the draft of the Declaration of Independence to Congress. It was based on a much smaller version of the same scene, presently held by the Yale University Art Gallery.[1] Trumbull painted many of the figures in the picture from life and visited Independence Hall as well to depict the chamber where the Second Continental Congress met. The oil-on-canvas work was commissioned in 1817, purchased in 1819, and placed in the rotunda in 1826.
Is this painting a 'primary' or 'secondary' source. What is the difference?
Adams & Jefferson were the only two Founding Fathers still alive when Trumbull's painting was completed. When did they die?
What was David McCullough's historical interpretation of John Adams?
Thursday, August 15, 2024
What Is History? (and why should we study it?)
What happened long ago shapes how we live today. What Dr. King said on that hot August day in 1963 made another point: we are not prisoners of the past. If we can dream of a better tomorrow, it lies in our power to shape the history to come.
Monday, August 12, 2024
Who Is America?
Who is America?
What are the ideals and values that tie us together as Americans?
How have those ideas and values changed over time?
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