Subscribe!

Badges

View blog authority

Add to Technorati Favorites

My BlogCatalog BlogRank

blogarama - the blog directory

Blog Flux Local

Academics Blogs - Blog Top Sites Locations of visitors to this page

A New World?

In relation to yesterday’s honor of Christopher Columbus and his “discovery” of “A New World”, I began thinking of the millions of people that were already living there.  While they new it existed, their world changed with the arrival of Europeans as well.  However, our history books don’t always teach us that.  The video below may help to open up that discussion with your students and show that history is often a matter of perspective.

Bookmark and Share

Technorati Tags: , ,

This website uses IntenseDebate comments, but they are not currently loaded because either your browser doesn't support JavaScript, or they didn't load fast enough.

Leave a Reply

 

 

 

You can use these HTML tags

<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>