Tag: AP History
Facial Hair Friday: A really big mustache—and bathtub
Oh, President Taft. It was your birthday yesterday, and I just had to feature you here on Facial Hair Friday. You were one of the few Presidents that seemed to stick my brain when I was studying for the AP History exam. Important dates, key battles, our founding documents—I could barely keep those facts stuck to my [...]
Posted by Hilary on September 16, 2011, under Facial Hair Fridays.
Tags: AP History, Articles of Confederation, bathtub, BIG!, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, facial hair friday, President Harding, Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. Supreme Court, USS North Carolina
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New York State of Mind–er, Archives
I’m beginning to wonder if we even covered the Civil War at all in AP History. Before joining the National Archives, I had never heard of the Battle of the Crater, did not know that Confederate ships sailed all over the world, and had no idea that the Civil War had a draft and you [...]
Posted by Hilary on July 6, 2010, under Uncategorized.
Tags: american history, AP History, archives, Civil War draft, Ellis Island, Harry Potter, J. summerfield Staples, Lincoln's substitute, NARA, national archives, National archives and records administration, National Archives at New York City, odd history, Pieces of History, prologue blog, Prologue magazine, random history, restricted, Varick Street, weird US history
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