Comments on: Another Memorial Day Blog…but it’s History! https://hankeringforhistory.com/another-memorial-day-blog-but-its-history/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=another-memorial-day-blog-but-its-history Hanker: To have a strong, often restless desire, in this case for--you guessed it--history! Sun, 17 Nov 2013 21:20:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: breakin80 https://hankeringforhistory.com/another-memorial-day-blog-but-its-history/#comment-137 Tue, 29 May 2012 21:46:55 +0000 https://hankeringforhistory.com/?p=587#comment-137 In reply to GrantOster.

This is also what frustrates me do much as a high school history teacher: exam boards pack the syllabus with content content content, but don’t allow the time or space to get into interesting or personal stories about the impact of [insert war here].
I’ve just finished a uni essay on uncovering the voice of the “subaltern” – this South Carolina version of Memorial Day is a classic example of how there may be many simultaneous beginnings, or beginnings are attributed pre-dating the original so as not to credit it for “political” reasons.

]]> By: Arkansas Patriot https://hankeringforhistory.com/another-memorial-day-blog-but-its-history/#comment-136 Mon, 28 May 2012 21:36:55 +0000 https://hankeringforhistory.com/?p=587#comment-136 Reblogged this on and commented:
More good stuff from Hankering For History: the history of Memorial Day.

]]> By: Rexi44 (@rexi44) https://hankeringforhistory.com/another-memorial-day-blog-but-its-history/#comment-135 Mon, 28 May 2012 20:29:11 +0000 https://hankeringforhistory.com/?p=587#comment-135 I was one of those history students who never got it. Wars & politics & of course major exports if you’re studying another country. About 10 years ago I saw a Black History Month bulletin board with a picture of James Farmer, with no explanation. No one there knew who he was other than “a civil rights leader like Martin Luther King”. I looked him up and learned he was a founder of CORE, but what fascinated me was that he grew up less than a hundred miles from here and his father was a college president [J. Leonard Farmer, played by Forrest Whitaker in The Great Debaters] and pastor who expected James Jr to go into the ministry but he didn’t because of the racism in the church. This was personal! An older friend who went to school there actually remembered Dr Farmer, and the racism of *my* Methodist Church changed history. So now I drift around the innawebz throwing out little historical factoids hoping they’ll hit someone the same way.

]]> By: Arkansas Patriot https://hankeringforhistory.com/another-memorial-day-blog-but-its-history/#comment-134 Mon, 28 May 2012 20:24:10 +0000 https://hankeringforhistory.com/?p=587#comment-134 Good stuff, Toaster!

]]> By: GrantOster https://hankeringforhistory.com/another-memorial-day-blog-but-its-history/#comment-133 Mon, 28 May 2012 19:29:24 +0000 https://hankeringforhistory.com/?p=587#comment-133 Yes, I find that generic high school and college courses only give skeleton history lessons. It is the details that makes history so interesting. Until I looked into this topic for this blog, I had never heard of this before!

]]> By: Rexi44 (@rexi44) https://hankeringforhistory.com/another-memorial-day-blog-but-its-history/#comment-132 Mon, 28 May 2012 19:20:09 +0000 https://hankeringforhistory.com/?p=587#comment-132 Just finished reading Blight’s NYTimes article. That had to have been one of the most significant celebrations in the history of our country, and nobody knew about it for almost 150 years.(Why we need historians!)

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