History Is Elementary

Here's a big HELLO to those of you who might find yourself here through a Google search, or you are a long-time subscriber to this site via Feedburner and/or RSS Feed.
I've moved!
I'd love to have you visit me at my own domain where I come out from behind the ElementaryHistoryTeacher name, but continue to share the stories behind the history....

I've written and published a book!
Of course, that was my intention when I began this blog way back in 2006 when I was still in the classroom, but the book I've published isn't exactly the book I had planned.
The planned project - a teaching memoir - will still be published along with a few other projects, but the book you see to the left is what fell in my lap along the way....

Do you know what these are?
If you guessed dental tools you would be correct?
Now, who owned them?

Over on the Facebook page for this blog I’ve been posting a series of pictures this week I’ve simply sourced as “Library of Congress”, but the source goes much deeper than that.  The pictures are wonderful depictions of world scenes beginning in the...