by Scott Dreyer | Oct 15, 2020 | American History
When studying history, we talk about “primary” and “secondary” documents. BOTH are useful, but different. The stem “pri-” means “first,” so primary documents are what someone wrote or created using first-hand...
by Scott Dreyer | Jun 5, 2019 | American History
This blog post is dedicated to all the brave souls who made D-Day a success on 6-6-1944, especially those who never returned home. Yorktown. Gettysburg. D-Day. These are some of the most famous and revered in American history. Yorktown is in...
by Scott Dreyer | May 7, 2018 | American History
This morning I was teaching a student in Hsinchu, Taiwan, who is taking U.S. history in high school this year. I told her, history is much more than just memorizing dates. However, there is one year I told her she should memorize: 1945. The world changed radically...
by Scott Dreyer | Apr 10, 2018 | American History
Today is April 9. On this date, in 1865, General Robert E. Lee, the chief general of the Confederate States of America (CSA), surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia (what was left of it) to General Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army of the Potomac, at Appomattox,...
by Scott Dreyer | Jan 25, 2018 | American History
Recently while teaching a DreyerCoaching.com advanced writing class, the students read my blog post about Pearl Harbor. I had asked the students to read it and pay particular attention to how I’d chosen to organize the post. (Primarily Q&A format with a...
by Scott Dreyer | Jan 13, 2017 | American History
What do politics, the English language, foreign languages, architecture, farming, engineering, diplomacy, philosophy and religion have in common? Thomas Jefferson! Thomas Jefferson is what we call today a “Renaissance Man.” The Renaissance was the...
