Gus's sophomore year at Alvirne High School, Hudson, NH

What did MY school do in my sophomore year?  Well, nothing short of setting a world record for the largest working slide rule!  The story links here, and no, that is not me in the yellow and gray shirt (but I did have big hair like that).

'Nuf Said

A new interpretation of the Boston Massacre

                                                                                                                (Bettmann/CORBIS) 
 
Another new interpretation of the Boston Massacre?  Didn't we already figure out that the soldiers were provoked by rock-filled snowballs thrown by a menacing, approaching crowd?  Didn't Howard Zinn and the HBO miniseries "John Adams" clear that one up?  Well, another historian has another idea.  Click here to read the story.  (Thanks to Adrienne Stang, Teaching American History Project Director)

U.S. History SAT Subject Test

The SAT II (Subject Area Test) in US History is on Saturday, May 1. Here is the practice test from College Board for you to practice.

Sasha is having a post-test gathering...please plan on attending this party/debrief session.

~Gus

"When Boston Awoke": The deportation of Thomas Sims

In April 1851, the authorities of the City of Boston took escaped slave Thomas Sims from his freedom in Boston to a ship headed back South.  The Boston Globe has a terrific article that Sasha found.  Please click here for the article.  Comments are required by April 16.

"Abolitionist Wendell Phillips spoke on behalf of fugitive slave Thomas Sims, and against the Fugitive Slave Law in 1851. Sims was later returned to Savannah where he was publicly whipped."