Category Archives: Historical Tuesdays

History Lesson Tuesday: 1845 US Naval Academy Opens

The United States Naval Academy opens in Annapolis, Maryland, with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors. Known as the Naval School until 1850, the curriculum included mathematics and navigation, gunnery and steam, chemistry, English, natural philosophy, and French. The Naval School officially became the U.S. Naval Academy in 1850, and a new curriculum went intoContinue reading “History Lesson Tuesday: 1845 US Naval Academy Opens”

History Lesson Tuesdays: Dog Unearths Cave of Antiquity

Marcel Ravidat, second from left in beret, with his friends at the cave entrance in 1940

History Lesson Tuesdays: Massacre at the Munich Olympics in 1972.

During the 1972 Summer Olympics at Munich, in the early morning of September 5, a group of Palestinian terrorists storms the Olympic Village apartment of the Israeli athletes, killing two and taking nine others hostage. The terrorists were part of a group known as Black September, in return for the release of the hostages, they demandedContinue reading “History Lesson Tuesdays: Massacre at the Munich Olympics in 1972.”

History Lesson Tuesdays: Unit 731: Biological Warfare and Inhuman Cruelty

by Robbie Mitchell Unit 731, a covert biological and chemical warfare research facility that operated during World War II in Japan, holds a chilling place in history. Veiled in secrecy and shrouded in denial for decades, this clandestine unit conducted gruesome experiments on human subjects, inflicting unimaginable suffering. Unit 731’s existence is a dark chapterContinue reading “History Lesson Tuesdays: Unit 731: Biological Warfare and Inhuman Cruelty”

True Crime Sundays: Son of Sam Serial Killer is Arrested

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History Lesson Tuesdays: The Dangers of Tea Drinking

In nineteenth century Ireland, tea could be a symbol of cultivation and respectability or ill health and chaos, depending on who was drinking it. by Livia Gershon In many places around the world, hospitality means offering guests a cup of tea. As historian Tricia Cusack writes, this was increasingly true in nineteenth-century Ireland. But when theContinue reading “History Lesson Tuesdays: The Dangers of Tea Drinking”

History Lesson Tuesdays: Bodies of the Titanic: Found and Lost Again

by Matthew Wills Ideas about economic class informed decisions about which recovered bodies would be preserved for land burial and which would be returned to the icy seas. The story of the Titanic usually ends with the ship’s sinking in April 1912, the rescue of survivors, and the ensuing scandals and subsequent safety improvements on ocean liners.Continue reading “History Lesson Tuesdays: Bodies of the Titanic: Found and Lost Again”

History Lesson Tuesdays: Manifesto offers glimpse into bomber’s mind.

by Allen G. Breed Eric Rudolph’s “manifesto” is 11 pages of hate, intolerance and self-justification. Sometimes eloquent, often blunt, it is at once an attempt to influence history and a thinly veiled call to arms. And to those who tracked the serial bomber and whose lives he shattered, it may be the only window theyContinue reading “History Lesson Tuesdays: Manifesto offers glimpse into bomber’s mind.”

History Lesson Tuesdays: 26 History Facts That Will Shock and Amaze Your Students

by Jeanne Croteau Our world is full of amazing stories just waiting to be shared and discovered. Researchers, historians, and archaeologists have given us so much information about our collective past, and many times what we learn is simply mind-blowing! Here’s a list of surprising history facts for kids that you can share in yourContinue reading “History Lesson Tuesdays: 26 History Facts That Will Shock and Amaze Your Students”