July 18, 2019 Welcome to History Bug for Teachers! Thank you for visiting History Bug. The goal of History Bug for Teachers is to be a place for elementary teachers to find History…
August 18, 2019 Yay for school supplies! Here’s some miscellaneous school supplies, teacher office supplies, and early classes through the years. Recognize anything from your early school days? #firstdayofschool#nostalgicforlisafrank#inkwellsquillschalkboards
August 18, 2019 Back to School(house) Many teachers and students are returning to school in the next few weeks. Here are some images that show what life used to be…
August 10, 2019 From College Professor to War Hero: Joshua Chamberlain In 1852, Joshua Chamberlain (1828-1914) graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Three years later he married Fanny Adams and accepted a position as…
August 8, 2019 My flour sack dress is prettier than yours! During the Depression (1929-1939) few people could afford to buy new clothes, so they did what any penny pincher would do—they used whatever material…
August 7, 2019 Fords are hard to beat Henry Ford (1863-1947) stands with the first Ford car and the ten millionth car on June 4th, 1924, in Detroit. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016816959/
August 6, 2019 ‘Halfway to Hell’ Club on Golden Gate Bridge In January of 1933 construction began on San Francisco‘s Golden Gate Bridge. It was opened to the public for the first time for “Pedestrian…
August 4, 2019 Remarkable Eleanor Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), wife of Franklin Roosevelt and niece of Teddy Roosevelt, was a political activist, diplomat, and the longest serving First Lady. She…
August 3, 2019 Resiliency during the Great Depression Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), America’s 31st president, took office in 1929, the year the U.S. economy plummeted into the Great Depression. As the Depression deepened,…
August 2, 2019 Put on your big girl panties, er…bloomers On August 5, 1858, Julia Archibald Holmes (February 15, 1838 – January 19, 1887) who was a Canadian-American suffragist, abolitionist, mountaineer, and journalist became…
August 1, 2019 Opera at its’ finest The Metropolitan Opera House (the Met) in New York City, then located on Broadway at 39th Street in New York City, opened on October…
