Teaching History Matters
Pearl Harbor survivor was quick to share memories
Pearl Harbor survivor was quick to share memories OCTOBER 04, 2015 2:00 PM • BILL TOSCANO Editor’s note: Every life...
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My post last week made the rounds, was read about 500 times, and was published in its entirety by the...
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I cannot forget where it is that I come from.
I brought copies of my recently published book with me to the inaugural Sandy Hill Farmers’ Market on a beautiful autumn...
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It was six years ago this evening, we shared a meal on the eve of Shabbat, after watching ourselves on...
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'To Make it Known'
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="620"] History teacher and author Matt Rozell, right, talks with World War II veteran and former history...
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Danny Boy.
Danny. [caption id="attachment_4330" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Daniel Lawler in my classroom, 2011. Portrait by Robert H. Miller.[/caption] I’m staring down a...
Read the articleIs the Holocaust different from other genocides?
A Review of Timothy Snyder's Black Earth, released last week. I think the review made some great points, which I...
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I didn’t do anything special.
Dorothy Schechter probably saw Mr. Cole in his practice runs. The only female on the base in the Carolinas, she...
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This fleet was coming to blow us off the face of the earth.
My friend Barney Ross passed away a few days ago. I hadn't seen him in a while, and I know...
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"I hope you never have to do it."
I hope you’ll never have to tell a story like this, when you get to be 87. I hope you’ll...
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The day Joe Minder tasted freedom.
Excerpt from the new book "The Things Our Fathers Saw" and Joe Minder's prisoner of war dairy, dated 70 years ago...
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I'm not sure what this is. It leaves some things out, I think. Read the book and decide for yourself....
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My 93 yr. old history teacher/WWII survivor told the Japanese that he did not think he would have survived another close encounter.
[caption id="attachment_4284" align="alignleft" width="300"] Mr. Peachman and author, at debut book signing, Aug. 8, 2015. Mary Rozell photo.[/caption] As the...
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How my 93 yr. old history teacher got to address the Japanese people.
How my 93 yr. old history teacher, who survived a deadly kamikaze attack in the spring of 1945, got to address the...
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Order the Paperback Book. It's here!
The paperback book is ready. It's reasonably priced and it can be ordered at Amazon. The e-book is also there;...
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The Remains of Randy.
This is kind of a quiet big deal. There is a boy from Hudson Falls, New York, and he and...
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Come on Over. Time to Launch New Book!
[caption id="attachment_4217" align="alignleft" width="300"] Portrait by Rob Miller.[/caption] We just launched the new website! Come on over and see. Find...
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Author Matthew Rozell, on writing your first book.
We are about a week out from the launch of my first book, The Things Our Fathers Saw. It clocks in...
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I can walk away, but I can never leave.
My friend Elaine wrote this. She just returned for the umteenth time taking dedicated Holocaust educators to learn from some...
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The Things our Fathers Saw. Here is a brief on the book that is coming out.
The Things Our Fathers Saw: The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation from Hometown, USA - Voices of...
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This was published in the Washington Post this week. The link is at the bottom. I repost it for noting...
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Somehow fate has brought us all together.
From my friends in Australia June 21, 2015 by Henry Benjamin Five Sydney women, who were little children in April 1945,...
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I am one of the millions of soldiers of the United States Army.
April 15th 1945 ...
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'I lost many friends.' For Memorial Day.
In 2003, I set out to interview a retiree living on the quiet boulevard leading up to our high school....
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'See? I'm only 17 to you now.' For Memorial Day.
This story below is an excerpt from my first book. It was published for the 70th anniversary of the end of the...
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A project by a student in my colleague Sara Kollbaum's 12th grade class in Nashville, Ill. It was inspired by...
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There are 'wrong' ways to teach about the Holocaust. Here are the general guidelines in a project I created for...
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V-E Day 70th Anniversary Commemoration Friday, May 8, 2015 ~ 10:30 a.m. World War II Memorial Washington, DC. This event...
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Seventy Years: 'The most serious directive my father ever gave me.'
At my keynote talk in Rochester, NY, two weeks ago, several people came up to me after the ceremony and...
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Dachau, Seventy Years On; The Subtle Difference.
[caption id="attachment_2888" align="aligncenter" width="3989"] April 30 1945 Headlines. Hangs in my classroom.[/caption] Today, April 29th, is the anniversary of the...
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My good friend in Israel let me know that the April 15th commemoration of the Holocaust at Yad Vashem in Israel...
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and this day… my grandchildren were born….to a good life.
[caption id="attachment_4053" align="aligncenter" width="1850"] 30th Infantry Division Veterans of World War II, Nashville Tennessee, April 2015, 70th anniversary of the...
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At the same time that we were meeting in Nashville, Hungarian survivors of the train near Magdeburg were meeting in...
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Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day-and the 743rd Tank Battalion.
[caption id="attachment_4033" align="aligncenter" width="900"] "The anguish of the liberation and return to life". Note the Benjamin photograph on the banner....
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Teaching history really does matter.
Update from Nashville: At the 30th Infantry Veterans of WW2 70th anniversary reunion. Today's events began with the posting of...
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Yom HaShoah ceremony and service, Jewish Federation of greater Rochester, New York, April 15, 2015. 700 folks come out on...
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