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A sign at the Pavelka Farm Using My Antonia as a way to explore the immigrant experience is one of the important but perhaps overl...

One of the things that made the centennial celebration of the publication of My Antonia so special was the presence of descendants of ...

Because today is Flag Day, I am adding a bonus post, in addition to my continuing series about "My Antonia."  When my Mother wa...

On one of our early visits to Red Cloud, Nebraska, we drove north of town to visit the Pavelka farm home in which Annie Sad...

Anna Pavelka My Antonia was first published in 1918, and this is the year of its centennial.  As I often have done after our return fr...

Young ladies of Isaac's era During the late 1800s, the Populist Movement placed great emphasis on the character of the men and wome...

Macksville Students in the 1950s Australian physician, author, and activist Helen Caldicott, said:   Teachers, I believe, are the most ...

Teachers Susan Beck and Anna Marie Beck Teachers touch the lives of all of us, and at the vulnerable ages of school children, teachers ...

An early sod school In the final blog in my Education series, I will take a brief look at the history of education in America, and the ...

Kansas State Capital staircase The first posting for this blog begun in 2011 emphasized my belief that a knowledge of history is essent...

The two previous blogs in this series, comparing education in the late 1800s with current  teaching standards, have shared the tests for ...

Past blogs have focused on cursive penmanship and written communication in general.  Last week's blog focused on speaking, but the bl...