Category: Archive
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Today is Digital Learning Day!
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You may have heard about Digital Learning Day before because every year there are thousands of events to celebrate digital learning in the United States and worldwide. Digital learning is a new concept compared to previous teaching methods. It’s any instructional practice that uses technology to enhance the learning…
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Books We Love – Week 3
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The Rebel Author: Albert Camus Genre: Sociology Vive la révolution? In Albert Camus’s book-length, sociological essay, he looks at the development of rebellion and revolution, particularly in Western Europe. Originally written in French, the novel explores the motivation for revolution based on basic human rejection of normative justice and the…
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Presidents Are Authors, Authors Are Presidents
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Being the President of the United States is much more than the average public government job. It’s an unfathomable responsibility that has only been held by forty-five democratically elected men. They are the forefront—the point men—of this great nation. Presidents, while they are historically educated, male, and rhetorically effective speakers,…
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“Over the Top” and Wartime News Reporting
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On January 28, 2017, American special forces touched down in Yemen for what Financial Times is calling “the most significant antiterrorism operation since [the 2016] election.” While the raid resulted successful in the capture of crucial intelligence, several American service members were injured or killed. Taking place on a Saturday…
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Sample Chapter: Over the Top
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It was not uncommon for American soldiers to fight among the ranks of British allies during World War I. However, the relationship between the two forces was less than ideal, as the Americans and British saw themselves superior to the other. Arthur Guy Empey is an American machine gunner who…
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Happy Birthday, Toni Morrison!
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Also known as Chloe Anthony Wofford, Toni Morrison is a novelist, editor, playwright, and professor. From a working-class family, she is the second of four children. After finding her love for literature at a young age, she continued to study English at both Howard and Cornell University and has a…
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Coming Soon- Turn Back before Baghdad
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January 15, 1991: Saddam Hussein’s last day to peacefully withdraw troops from Kuwait before the United States takes lethal action. Hussein fails to comply and the United States prepares to launch a series of attacks on Iraqi forces, in attempt to bring an end to the war over the oil…
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Preserving WW1 History: An Editor’s Note by David Scott Stieghan
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I am excited to announce that 100 years after the initial publication Arthur Guy Empey’s Over the Top is available in a new edition in April 2017. It has been my dream to someday see this important work back in print so that another generation of readers could enjoy this…