Teaching History Matters
For Father's Day: A father and son go to war.
Ron Parsons was a senior in my father's history class in Glens Falls High in 1965. He and Billy Nemeyer...
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Day of Days- "We often wonder, was it all worthwhile."
Rest On, Buster: Remembering a Soldier, a Storyteller, a Friend One of the hard parts about this project is that...
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For Memorial Day.
I wrote this midway though my teaching career. Almost twenty years and eleven books later, almost all of the men and women...
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The Unintentional Conduit: Three Decades of Listening
This week, I hit upon a realization, so bear with me as I unpack A LOT in this post. The...
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A Survivor's' Note to Her Mother On Mother's Day—'I am Alive!'
A girl smiles while recuperating from the concentration camp Bergen Belsen sometime following liberation in the spring of 1945. Tomorrow...
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He kept writing it all down — on cigarette paper and scraps, hidden from his captors.
Eighty-four years ago today, a young man from the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York was spending his 25th birthday...
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Dachau and the photo in his wallet. The question he never got to ask.
April 30 1945 Headlines, on display in my classroom. Eighty-one years ago today, American soldiers of the 42nd and 45th...
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She Was Told to Live and Tell the Story.
She Was Told to Live and Tell the Story: Aliza Vitis-Shomron and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Eighty-three years ago this...
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A Soldier Witnesses: "I'll Be in a Better Frame of Mind Tomorrow..."
"I'll Be in a Better Frame of Mind Tomorrow." April 17, 2026 Eighty-one years ago today, a young man sat...
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The Ripples Go Forth: A Message Across Eighty Years
TeachingHistoryMatters.com · Matthew Rozell · Remembering Those Who Came Before World War II · 351st Bomb Group · B-17 ·...
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A Day of Commemoration and Thanksgiving.
On February 1st 2026, I was at a special invitation-only gathering outside of New York City, a reunion of a...
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Nuremberg, 80 Years on.
During the first Nuremberg Trial, American guards maintain constant surveillance over the major Nazi war criminals in the prison attached...
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The power of love transcends time and space.
My mom passed away twenty years ago this morning. She struggled with early onset Alzheimers for about twenty years. It...
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A Night For Remembering.
Fall is here, and two weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be on stage with the director of the...
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A Train Near Magdeburg Film Series- Events Kick Off Week-Sept. 11-14, 2025
This is a notice for those of you who may be interested, especially Soldier/Survivor/2nd/3rd Gen families who may not have...
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"I'm Still Seventeen to You Now."
TEN YEARS AGO, my first book was published. Eight years before that, my high schoolers and I sat down with...
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Narrated by Sir David Suchet.
Below is a post by my friend and our project screenwriter Lee Shackleford announcing that Sir David Suchet has signed...
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An Unbelievable Symbol.
I went up to my camp alone in the Adirondack mountains last night. Part of me needed to get away...
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"For the Liberating Forces, it was a Glorious Moment of Triumph".
Screenshot of combat Medic Walter Gantz, and child survivor Oscar Schwartz, Warren County Community College, New Jersey, April 2019. Walter...
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80 Years: The Battle for Okinawa and the Liberation of the Camps in Germany.
Welcome to 2025, a momentous year for World War II remembrance and history. So glad that you can join us...
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A Part of It Now.
Rehearsals and recording of the musical score and the soundtrack to our mini-series, A Train Near Magdeburg. Featuring Joshua Bell,...
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'Each concert is a victory.' The Violins of Hope, and A Train Near Magdeburg.
This post is an update, two years on, on the occasion of the recording for the soundtrack to our film....
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80 Years: Iwo Jima & The Rhine Crossings- Lessons in Resilience
Welcome to 2025, a momentous year for World War II remembrance and history. So glad that you can join us...
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Welcome to 2025. Was it really that long ago?
Welcome to 2025, a momentous year for World War II remembrance and history. So glad that you can join us...
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Nineteen thousand American boys were killed in the bloodiest US battle of WWII, over the course of six weeks, in...
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Talking about Randy on my Youtube channel. Maybe you've heard it before, but I'll keep reminding people until the day...
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In Person Meet & Greet.
Just a quick note: I'm at my old holiday haunt at the Shirt Factory, 21 Cooper Street, Glens Falls, NY.,...
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Pearl Harbor sailor from Hudson Falls buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
25 or 30 years ago, during a symposium with Pacific veterans in the Hudson Falls High School library, I overheard...
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Mr. Hudson Falls.
We lost a good, good friend in our community this week. I really don’t remember the first time I made...
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Over The Hump.
I recently finished my 10th book in The Things Our Fathers Saw series. It covers a pretty much unknown aspect...
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Long dead soldiers, long ago war.
Just finished my 10th book in the Things Our Fathers Saw series, on the CBI theater of the war. I...
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Look for Episode One for the 80th anniversary, 2025.https://app.frame.io/presentations/ba7fe14b-2556-44c2-bb55-4305ff974994
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Day of Days.
June 6, 1944Amsterdam 'This is D-Day,’ the BBC announced at 12 o'clock. This is the day. The invasion has begun!Is...
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Deliver us.
Liberation site, 13 April 2024. Photo by Daniel Keweloh. Note the visitation remembrance stones on the memorial. April, 1945. Testimony...
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Mid-February Update.
Hello, I'm way overdue knocking out an update! A bit sad to announce we closed the physical bookshop this month...
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Holiday Tour.
TAP TO ZOOM ON IMAGE/HOURS/LOCATIONS. A quick note to my followers here that I do have a new book out....
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