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America’s Teacher: William Holmes McGuffey

By buckeyemuse | September 23, 2015

American educator William Holmes McGuffey, famous for creating his McGuffey Readers, an influential series of school texts in 19th century America, was born on September 23, 1800 in western Pennsylvania. He received a sparse education in his childhood and youth, but learned enough to eventually teach in the one-room country schools of rural Ohio after…

May 14, 1917: Thomas Boyd, author of WWI classic “Through The Wheat,” enlists in the U.S. Marine Corps

By buckeyemuse | May 17, 2014 |

May, 1917. Just one month earlier the United States has declared war against the Central Powers. The draft was about to begin. For almost three years Europe has been ravaged by the First World War, much of it brutal trench warfare in France and Belgium. Now the U.S. has entered the fray after a long…

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