World War TWO Rations: artifacts

Richard Nixon on Vietnam

The front and rear of a Richard Nixon political pamphlet: Enjoy ! 

Art in US History Class: 2014

I teach US History in a North Carolina public high school. Each semester I use art; however, this semester, I am taking pains to keep track of each and every piece of art and image that we analyze in class.  This link will take you to the page I am using to document this effort. It will be updated throughout the Spring Semester of 2014: Enjoy ! 

World War One Cartoon Art

Civil War art.

Robert Gould Shaw Memorial: 54th Infantry, Civil War.

Video of a tour guide giving an excellent history of the art and the history.

Chi Rho and Constantine the Great

suggested use for Teachers: 

1. Ask students to draw the Chi Rho symbol in their journals. Then ask students if any of them know the historic significance of the image.

2. read the link about the SYMBOL and jot down a few facts about its historical use.

3. then scroll down to the tapestry image and do a VTS with the image.

4. after students have investigated the image, listen to the audio link about this tapestry from the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

5. Use this as a review of Constantine's efforts as emperor or as a way to introduce Constantine.

What is the historic significance of the CHI RHO symbol?

How did Constantine the Great use this symbol? Click here for access an audio tour to this tapestry shown above; this piece of art that displays the connection between the Chi Rho and  Constantine. Can you count the number of Chi Rho symbols used in the tapestry?

Click here for the audio

Who is Salman Rushdie?

Some of  my students with Sir Salman Rushdie.

I teach history at the high school level full time and part time at the local  college and university. A few years ago, Salman Rushdie visited East Carolina University and gave a lecture. I urged my students to attend and offered extra credit, but many of my students had never heard of Sir Rushdie.


Salman Rushdie has written many books, but he is best known for his book "SATANIC VERSES." 

Mr. Hill with Sir Rushdie ! ! ! 

For this book, Satanic Verses, where he supposedly insults the founder of Islam--Muhammad--Islamic religious leaders issued a FATWA, or religious edict, calling for RUSHDIE's death. 

Below, I am attaching some video links of interviews with Rushdie for you to learn about Sir Salman Rushdie: 

Islam and War

excerpted from John Keegan's seminal work "A History of Warfare."

  "Muhammad, unlike Christ, was a man of violence; he bore arms, was wounded in battle and preached holy war, jihad, against those who defied the will of God, as revealed to him. His successors view of the world as divided into Dar al-Islam -- the House of Submission, submission to the teachings of Muhammad, collected in the Koran --  and Dar al-Harb, which were those parts yet to be conquered." 
[link to the text]

Muhammad's Conquests

1. Some more academic research on dar al-harb and dar al-Islam can be found in the Ethics and the Use of Force by James Turner Johnson
2. Muhammad as a Warrior

Washington Crossing the Delaware

 click here for the AUDIO lecture

Dali: Spanish Civil War Art

How did Salvador Dali intend for this to be an anti war image? Find out more; click here.