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Jeff Reed is a National Board Certified Teacher of U.S. history, sociology and journalism. He is fascinated by how frequently the present rhymes with the past. E-mail him at: american.history@gmail.com.

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Stupid Questions IV: How one vote made Washington president #8 and Atchison #11.5

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Stupid Questions IStupid Questions IIStupid Questions IIIMore of the frequently asked questions confused students ask their heroic history teachers....
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Stupid Questions III: Who killed John F. Kennedy’s jelly donut, and where does Lincoln fit in?

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Stupid Questions IStupid Questions II More of those “unanswerable” questions students commonly ask history teachers. Q. In his famous...
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Stupid Questions II: Suicidal Munchkins and fake landings on Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon'

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Stupid Questions IYesterday, I addressed some of the questions I am most frequently asked: Was Abe Lincoln gay? Was Hitler Jewish? Was George Bush our...
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Stupid Questions I: Gay Lincoln, stupid Bush, Jewish Hitler, and superfluous Sacagawea

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Yesterday, I wrote of the frustration felt by history teachers over having to address the same fallacies over and...
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Neil Armstrong never landed on the Dark Side of the Moon

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“It ain't so much what we know that gets us into trouble. It's what we know that just ain't so." –...
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Arlen Specter and the death of the Republican Party

Strategy botchedIn the midst of an unpopular war, members of a once-vibrant political party gather in secret to...
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The all-time worst movies that history teachers should never show (but always do)

Previously, I discussed the tendency of some teachers to view the end of the school year as a time to cash it in...
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All-time worst history movies

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Previous - Read Part 1Herewith, the worst American History movies of all time.(My goal was to rank them in order from worst-er to worst-est, but one...
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Calling it a year: Teachers, movies, and the classroom

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Sheets of green pollen caked thick on my car roof and windshield.Dandelions and grass shoots bursting out of my...
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For cheating students, the punishment never fits the crime

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It didn’t take me long to catch my first cheating student.I was in my initial semester of full-time teaching....
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