Elektratig recounts President Zachary Taylor’s death, and Millard Fillmore’s swearing in as the 13th president, in deeper and more interesting detail than I had.
Bookmark that site, social studies teachers: It’s a great site for details on Millard Fillmore that your students won’t find easily anywhere else — and on Zachary Taylor, and on politics and history in general in the two decades prior to the Civil War. Go see: “Zachary Taylor is no more!”
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Ed Darrell on Texas's Colorado River
Come on in, the water's fine. Come often: Cleanliness is next to godliness.
Or, until that account is unsuspended by the forces supporting Donald Trump:
Follow @FillmoreWhite, the account of the Millard Fillmore White House Library
Retired teacher of law, economics, history, AP government, psychology and science. Former speechwriter, press guy and legislative aide in U.S. Senate. Former Department of Education. Former airline real estate, telecom towers, Big 6 (that old!) consultant. Lab and field research in air pollution control. My blog, Millard Fillmore's Bathtub, is a continuing experiment to test how to use blogs to improve and speed up learning processes for students, perhaps by making some of the courses actually interesting. It is a blog for teachers, to see if we can use blogs. It is for people interested in social studies and social studies education, to see if we can learn to get it right. It's a blog for science fans, to promote good science and good science policy. It's a blog for people interested in good government and how to achieve it. BS in Mass Communication, University of Utah Graduate study in Rhetoric and Speech Communication, University of Arizona JD from the National Law Center, George Washington University
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Ed,
It’s been a little hectic, so I just saw your post. Thanks!
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Yes, but what does David Barton have to say about Millard Fillmore? (That’s what Texas teachers will need to know — see
http://curricublog.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/tx-experts-social-studies/ )
Anyway, I just thought I’d drop a note that somebody reached my blog today by searching on “strengths and weaknesses of Millard Fillmore.” Things in Texas come together in mysterious ways, it seems.
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Right on! Its a tough period to teach and get kids real psyched about without being a little creative.. This is great, thanks!
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