Close to Home by John McPherson for December 14, 2012

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    Tin Can Twidget  almost 12 years ago

    Looks more exciting than most of the history classes I’ve had over the years.

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    RetroJenny  almost 12 years ago

    Every History class needs Professor Turgeson (“Back To School”) .

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    PICTO  almost 12 years ago

    Can’t wait to see his interpretation of the “Rape of the Sabines”.

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    daniel_bel  almost 12 years ago

    It’s the rapt of the Sabines. He would just runaway with one on his soulders. Also the bastille was taken without any rope, they just entered through the doors…

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    Lefty2  almost 12 years ago

    hope he gets extra credit for this.

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    battle of plattsburgh  almost 12 years ago

    And a happy July 14 to you, too.

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    i_am_the_jam  almost 12 years ago

    “Where’s the Bastille??” asked Mikhail Gorbachov, then general secretary of the extinct USSR. Apparently someone forgot to give him the memo that the revolutionaries completely demolished the Bastille.

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    i_am_the_jam  almost 12 years ago

    …the question was asked in 1988.

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    mrssaskfan  almost 12 years ago

    My sons had a social studies teacher who liked role-playing re-enactments to teach the kids how the different sides thought. It could get very entertaining when they really got into it. The French Third Assembly got a little tense.

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    Popeyesforearm  almost 12 years ago

    wait ’till the boiling oil shows up in the 2nd act.

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    hippogriff  almost 12 years ago

    One of the best RPG history lessons was by David Millians for 5-6 grade studying 19th century US. Choose from hat, the family you will play. One millionaire, three slaves, the rest distributed in between according to the 1800 census. One decade per week. Do the slave hit the Underground Railroad or wait hoping the abolitionists win? How do the factory workers react to the Knights of Labor? How does the millionaire? Do the independent farmers join the Farmers National Alliance and how to the furnishing merchants react? Lots of research required to play properly and a lot of learning in history, sociology, math (family budget, etc.), as a result.

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