Teaching History Matters

Ron Parsons was a senior in ...

Rest On, Buster: Remembering a Soldier, a Storyteller, a Friend

One of the hard parts about this project is that people you come to know and love grow older and pass away on you. But you are thankful you came to know them, and grateful to have seen how they enriched your life and the lives of others.

I first met Buster nearly 20 years ago,...

I wrote this midway though my teaching career. Almost twenty years and eleven books later, almost all of the men and women I talked to are indeed gone. I like to say that for me, I feel like everyday is Memorial Day.

But are they forgotten? Do we still teach our children? I hope someone does.

This week, I hit upon a realization, so bear with me as I unpack A LOT in this post.

The realization that has been simmering for over a quarter-century is that my students and I were, for years, performing a form of unintentional psychotherapy for the “Greatest Generation”, and perhaps now their children.

This past Monday, I sat in a room...