A New Yorker's Thoughts on Teaching the Civil War in the South

A New Yorker's Thoughts on Teaching the Civil War in the South

Teachers spend time ruminating on their how their own education inform their opinions, techniques and pedagogy in the classroom. As a history teacher, I reflect on how I was taught and what narrative I was taught in my own middle school social studies class. Living in southern Louisiana and teaching at an independent school in New Orleans, I have given great thought to how I should present the actors of the years prior to and during the Civil War.

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