Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: March 2, 2012
A while ago I joined students on a field trip to the National Eagle Center in Wabasha, Minnesota. We enjoyed a presentation featuring live eagles and learned about conversation and the eagle as our national symbol. Old Abe, the Wisconsin War Eagle is the subject of a special display. The field trip was ideal for [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: October 30, 2011
Looking for more information about Charley Goddard and Company K in the Civil War? Charley, the young soldier in Gary Paulsen’s young adult novel A Soldier’s Heart is mentioned in an August post, Music and letters connect us with the Civil War. Here are more resources about Charley and the Minnesota 1st regiment. Winona County [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: April 13, 2011
The sesquicentennial of the Civil War and today’s news media stories about Fort Sumter have left my head spinning. There are an abundance of primary source Civil War documents, photographs, maps, political cartoons, and ephemera readily available to us in digital format. But how do we find it? Digitalization makes these resources come alive [...]
