by Mark Pontoni March 23, 2020 I am going to take a break from politics today and join in a game being played on Twitter in which sports writers and personalities are posting who they think is the best all time baseball team. Everyone has their own criteria, of course. There’s the statheads, the traditionalists, […]
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Children at Play; Insights into WWI
Each year as we get towards the end of teaching World War I, I spend a few days having our students study some of the poetry written by soldiers from the trenches. (Sassoon, Brooke, Harvey, and Nichols are among my favorites.) Drawing on the lessons of “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “Johnny Got […]
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