In February, the TAH team highlights the work of one of our high school teachers, Angela Cunningham, Bullitt Central High School. Angela is known throughout the nation as a leader in technology integration. While presenting at the National Council for Social Studies, in Washington, D.C., Angela was sought after by Social Studies teachers from all over the country. She is a leader in Social Studies chats on Tweeter every Monday evening, and is working with the TAH team to provide quality PD on integrating technology in the classroom.
Lesson Study continues to be a focus for TAH. In the coming weeks, observation teams will be in our elementary and middle schools, providing valuable feedback to our THEME teachers.
Dr. Gordon Lloyd, of Pepperdine University, presented to participants in the high school history grant. Dr. Lloyd discussed his book the “The Two Faces of Liberalism: How the Hoover-Roosevelt Debate Shaped the 21st Century”. Teachers looked at a number of primary sources in the book from the era and discussed how Hoover and Roosevelt’s philosophies shape out politics today.
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Origins of Kentucky's County Names
Part XXIV
Wayne
Wayne County, the forty-third county in order of formation, is located in the south-central section of Kentucky along the state border with Tennessee. Created in 1800 from parts of Pulaski and Cumberland counties, it was named in honor of Gen. Anthony Wayne, a Revolutionary War hero. The 446-square-mile county is bordered by Clinton, Russell, Pulaski, and McCreary counties. The county seat is MONTICELLO.
Webster
Webster County was originally formed from Henderson County, Hopkins County and Union County in 1860. It is located in the Western Coal Field region of the state and bounded by Union, Henderson, Hopkins, McLean and Crittenden counties.
Whitley
Whitley County was created on January 17, 1818 from adjacent Knox County, Kentucky. In the years prior to its establishment as an independent county, many skirmishes were fought between native Indians and hunters and trappers in the area.
The namesake of the county, Colonel William Whitley, is famous locally for fighting many of these battles within the area, safeguarding the Wilderness Road, as well as for his service in the War of 1812, where he was killed at the Battle of the Thames. The county seat, Williamsburg, is also named for Colonel Whitley, with the first court held at the home of the town's earliest resident, Samuel Cox.
Wolfe
Wolfe County, the 110th county in order of formation, is located in eastern Kentucky. It is bounded by Powell, Menifee, Morgan, Magoffin, Breathitt, and Lee counties and has an area of 223 square miles. The county was formed in 1860 from portions of Breathitt, Owsley, and Powell counties, and was named for Nathaniel Wolfe, an eloquent criminal lawyer who represented Jefferson County in the Kentucky legislature (1853-55, 1859-63). The seat of Wolfe County is Campton.
Woodford
Woodford County in Kentucky is rich in history as well as beauty. Established in 1788 and named after General William Woodford who aided George Washington in Valley Forge this county had a good beginning. This beautiful lush county houses the Woodford Reserve as well as Kentucky Bourbon from one of the oldest manufactures in the state.
Woodford has had many notable people grace its lands since its meager beginnings. From Calvary officers to country music singers this county has managed to make an impression. Even the Queen herself visited in 2007.
One of the first notable people from this county is John Buford. Born in Woodford county, Kentucky little to anyone know that he would have a major part in the history of the beginning of American Civil War. As a union Calvary officer his role was done in the Battle of Gettysburg by helping to maintain a union foothold.
Henry Clay Monument
Lexington, Kentucky
In rememberance of the 200th Anniversay of the War of 1812 and the 150th anniversay of his passing, and Henry Clay's efforts to avoid conflict between the States, we present these photos of the Monument to Henry Clay at the Lexington, Kentucky Cemetery.
President Eisenhower regretted not defending which of the following Americans when they were attacked by Senator Joe McCarthy?
A. Richard Nixon
B. Harry Truman
C. General George Marshall
D. Senator John F. Kennedy
E. Senator Robert Taft
JOHNSON, Richard Mentor, (brother of James Johnson [1774-1826] and John Telemachus Johnson, and uncle of Robert Ward Johnson), a Representative and a Senator from Kentucky and a Vice President of the United States. Johnson was born at “Beargrass,” Jefferson County, Ky., near the present site of Louisville, October 17, 1780. He attended the common schools and Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky.; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1802 and commenced practice in Great Crossings, Ky.
Johnson was a
member, State house of representatives 1804-1806 and again in 1819; elected as a Democratic Republican to the Tenth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1807-March 3, 1819); chairman, Committee on Claims (Eleventh Congress), Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Fifteenth Congress). Johnson was commissioned colonel of Kentucky Volunteers and commanded a regiment in engagements against the British in lower Canada in 1813.
He was elected as a Democratic Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John J. Crittenden; reelected as a Jackson Republican (and later Jacksonian) and served from December 10, 1819, to March 3, 1829 and ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for reelection in 1829. He was chairman, Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses); elected to the Twenty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1837); chairman, Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses), Committee on Military Affairs (Twenty-second through Twenty-fourth Congresses);
Johnson was chosen Vice President of the United States by the Senate on February 8, 1837, no candidate having received a majority of the electoral vote, and served under President Martin Van Buren from March 4, 1837, to March 3, 1841; member, State house of representatives 1850; died in Frankfort, Ky., November 19, 1850; interment in the Frankfort Cemetery.
May 1st: The first United States Series "E" Savings Bond was issued, 1941
May 2nd: Good Housekeeping magazine first published in Holyoke, Massachusetts, 1885
May 3rd:West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax, 1921
May 4th: Dutch explorer Peter Minuit landed on present-day Manhattan Island, 1626
May 5th: John T. Scopes was arrested in Tennessee for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution, 19254
May 6th: Babe Ruth hit his first home run as a player for the Boston Red Sox, 1915
May 7th: The first inaugural ball was held in New York to honor President and Mrs. George Washington, 1789
May 8th: Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River, 1541
May 9th: First United States newspaper cartoon published in Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette,1754
May 10th: Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys captured the British-held fortress at Fort Ticonderoga, New York, 1775
May 11th: B.F. Goodrich Company developed the tubeless tire, 1947
May 12th: Union forces captured Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1862
May 13th: The English Colony at Jamestown, Virginia, was settled, 1607
May 14th: The first Olympic Games were held in the United States in St. Louis, Missouri, 1904
May 15th: The Truman Doctrine was approved, 1947
May 16th: Issuance of the nickel coin was authorized by Congress, 1866
May 17th: The first Kentucky Derby was held; the winner was "Aristides" 1875
May 18th: The Tennessee Valley Authority was created, 1933
May 19th: First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died, 1994
May 20th: Christopher Columbus died in poverty in Spain, 1506
May 21th: Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross, 1881
May 22nd: The first life insurance policy in the United States was issued, in Philadelphia, 1761
May 23rd: Gangsters Bonnie & Clyde were killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, 1934
May 24th: The Brooklyn Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan, opened to traffic, 1883
May 25th: The Gateway Arch was dedicated in St. Louis, 1968
May 26th: Confederate forces west of the Mississippi River made surrender arrangements, 1865
May 27th: The Golden Gate Bridge was opened to the public, 1937
May 28th: The first black regiment from the North left Boston to fight in the Civil War, 1863
May 29th: Rhode Island became the13th original colony to ratify the United States Constitution, 1790
May 30th: The first Indianapolis 500 road race was held, 1911
May 31st: The last Ford Model T automobile was made, 1927
JOHNSON, Richard Mentor, (brother of James Johnson [1774-1826] and John Telemachus Johnson, and uncle of Robert Ward Johnson), a Representative and a Senator from Kentucky and a Vice President of the United States. Johnson was born at “Beargrass,” Jefferson County, Ky., near the present site of Louisville, October 17, 1780. He attended the common schools and Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky.; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1802 and commenced practice in Great Crossings, Ky.