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Videos for the Classroom: Dr. Seuss’ The Butter Battle Book
In our belated homage to Dr. Seuss on his March 2nd birthday, the Neighborhood presents a video of one of Seuss’ greatest–and most controversial–works. In 1984, Seuss’ The Butter Battle Book caused a...
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Videos for the Classroom: What the Ancient Greeks Did for Us
Since I work double-duty as a social studies AND science teacher, I’m always looking for ways to combine the two…sometimes out of piquing interest, often out of laziness. Today’s offering is just...
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Videos for the Classroom: The Western Tradition
As regular followers of the Neighborhood can tell you, I was a pretty dorky kid. It wasn’t enough that I sat and read the encyclopedia cover to cover. Nor was it enough as a precocious 8 year old...
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Mad Men and the King Assassination
Some of the cast of AMC’s Mad Men. Yesterday was that rare instance when television illuminates. Even so, the light shone by the tube can often reflect on our own mirrors—and the image is rarely...
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Videos for the Classroom: A Day in the Life…from BBC History
As we here at the Neighborhood sit patiently while Governor Cuomo calls us for an interview, I found this cool series of videos. In my year teaching ancient history, the BBC has been a veritable...
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Review of Khan Academy’s “American History Overview Part 1: Jamestown to...
I had not been a huge fan of Khan Academy. Even before I started working with one of its competitors, I generally took a dim view of anyone that thought they could do better than a teacher with just a...
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David Letterman – Top Ten Reasons I’ve Decided to Become a Teacher
I’m knee deep in LearnZillion work as I came back from my long break. The Gilder Lehrman conference at USC was great–wonderful professors, cool colleagues, and a special shout out to the folks at Tiki...
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This Day in History 10/1: The first Tonight Show appearance of Johnny Carson
I don’t usually watch late night television…and mostly because Johnny Carson isn’t a part of it. On October 1, 1962, temporary host Groucho Marx introduced the new permanent host of NBC’s Tonight...
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Videos for the Classroom: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Today marks the 149th anniversary of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Maybe outside of the JFK killing, it is probably the most documented single homicide in American history. It has been...
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Did the Culper Ring get its due? A review of AMC’s “Turn”
From the poster of AMC’s “Turn” In the world of espionage, the best recognition is no recognition at all. The front of the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Virginia...
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