Making that first CONNECTION

I am starting this blog for my students, family and friends who ask me all the time to help them understand history.  I am dedicated to finding the path in history that enlightens us all.  Teaching American history, I encourage my students to connect the motivations and stories they are studying in class to the world around them today.  I ask them to CONNECT History.  #ConnectHistory

I am dedicated to this connection.  

Last week in a used bookstore, (Yes, I encourage you all to stroll through a used bookstore) I encountered a book titled Gems of Modern Wit and Humor published in 1903.  I immediately gobbled it up for a mere $5.  The binding is breaking and the pages are more than fraying.  It's heaven.