I would've loved your class as kid. My history teachers were always the most inspiring and the ones who could make it really come alive even more so. Thanks for your work here!
4 months ago | 9
Thank you for informing our future about the past. I feel as though it is one of the most important things we can do in the present in order to avoid a repeat of the terrors behind us and to leave them behind us forever moving forward...
4 months ago | 1
I would have loved to had you as a history teacher myself, now I wish you couldāve taught my kids and now be teaching my grandchildren. My oldest granddaughter is in 7th grade. I love your channel. You have a gift!
4 months ago | 1
I would have loved you as my 7th grade teacher for history!! However, im enjoying everything you post,,, and offers avenues for interesting conversations with my nephews,, they love you also and their grades improved!! Thank you for ALL your efforts
4 months ago | 1
Amazing painting with so many historical details. Amazing how good painters were back then with a canvas a brush and there impressive mental backview of events with no visual references
4 months ago | 0
This is one of my favorite series of paintings, āCourse of a Nationā by Thomas Cole. Great little stories told throughout the pieces.
4 months ago | 0
I feel like if you were my history teacher, Mr. Munger, I'd love history even more!
4 months ago (edited) | 1
The history game sounds very fun. Maybe we could do it In our class. Can you please explain in more detail how it is done.
4 months ago | 2
I sure wish you had been my history teacher! I had a coach that just filled in as a history teacher so he could coach.
4 months ago | 0
I see Hudson River School I up vote. Now I want a video on the American Romantic Painters, Bierstadt in particular. š
4 months ago (edited) | 0
That reminds me of the scenario we were given in AP world history. We were all put in groups and assigned a country. Then, we were given choices about whether or not to go to war and which allies we would support. As different counties voted to go to war, it changed the circumstances of the choice each group had to use when deciding their vote. Ultimately, everyone voted to go to war because they wanted to support their country's allies. (I was the odd man out in the France group. One other person and I didn't vote to go to war. It seemed fishy.) At the end of the exercise, our teacher congratulated us on starting WWI. We reviewed the way class groups aligned themselves. It matched the same decisions made by the countries of europ at the start of WWI.
4 months ago | 0
You should make a video on Rome, could be fun. Maybe a change of pace from the more modern (1800+) videos youāve been doing.
5 months ago (edited) | 19
My 8th grade teacher had us do two simulations, one overtly the American revolution with three groups, patriots, loyalists, and neutral (my group) it was great at showing the financial and social cost to be in each camp, but she didnāt communicate that I figured it out myself later on. Then another that we didnāt finish where in a group we each were a made up country with different resources/goals with the opportunity to unify. I definitely donāt figure out that we were the colonies struggling to unify until years later. But they were excellent ways to learn even if it didnāt come right away. Iām not sure what colony I was, but it was definitely not New England. It was in our best interest to remain separate.
5 months ago | 2
Is there a reason some of why your American revolution videos are private? Iād love to watch your analysis and I would be willing to pay if needed.
4 months ago | 0
The sad thing is that your kids probably would be an improvement over the sorry excuses for rulers the late western roman empire had. Kinda hard to do worse than the guy who was more concerned with his pet chickens than the empire he was ruling.
4 months ago | 0
Sean Munger
Following my post yesterday, some of you asked me for an update on how my 7th grade classes did in the game we played trying to avert the sack of Rome to the Visigoths in 410. In answer I give you this famous painting from Thomas Cole's 1836 "Course of Empire" series. š They didn't save Rome but they gave it a good go! One of the two classes overthrew the Emperor Honorius, which made for an interesting afternoon. Teaching history can be fun and it's great to see kids taking an interest in the past.
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