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• 	Our National Parks by KCan Every year millions of Americans (not to mention all those foreign guests) visit the country’s many national parks, whether simply to enjoy a quick scenic drive, or maybe for a more challenging backwoods adventure. But which ever one of nature’s calls these visitors heed, most of them likely arrive with...	Ranking: We want you to rate, but you have to be a member first. Please click here to join or here to sign in.
  	11-11-2007 3:47 PM by KCan Categories & Keywords: Travel, history, NPS, native culture, land, Parks, environment

• 	Oral History 101 by KCan What do you envision when you hear the words “oral history?” Most folks define oral history as stories, which are spoken, telling about certain events that happened in the past. But the definition might not be quite as simple as all that. Are family memories oral history? What about a story told at the...	Ranking: We want you to rate, but you have to be a member first. Please click here to join or here to sign in.
  	11-10-2007 11:02 AM by KCan Categories & Keywords: history, nostalgia, social history, collection, memory, communities

• 	Boston's Bunker Hill by KCan On your next trip to Boston , make it about more than just the Red Sox. Make sure you see some of the great historic sites, and be sure to stop by the obelisk called the Bunker Hill Monument , which remembers the battle at Breed’s Hill . It was June 17, 1775 , hundreds of colonials were dug in on the...	Ranking: We want you to rate, but you have to be a member first. Please click here to join or here to sign in.
  	11-10-2007 2:19 PM by KCan Categories & Keywords: Travel, history, Massachusetts, Bunker Hill, colonials, Boston, revolution

• 	Summer for the Gods by KCan Rural Tennessee in 1925 staged the “Monkey Trial,” then the latest incarnation of the “trial of the century.” That particular legal sensation – the misdemeanor prosecution of a part-time biology teacher in alleged violation of an antievolution law – generated sensational headlines at the time. Ever since...	Ranking: We want you to rate, but you have to be a member first. Please click here to join or here to sign in.
  	11-10-2007 10:17 AM by KCan Categories & Keywords: Books, scopes, reviews, trials, Edward J. Larson, evolution, history

• 	The Great West by KCan Wallace Stegner fills the pages of this classic with bigger-than-life personalities. Of course, Major John Wesley Powell – the one-armed, swashbuckling Civil War veteran – towers center stage in this masterful book, but he is surrounded by other epic figures: explorer Ferdinand V. Hayden, geographer...	Ranking: We want you to rate, but you have to be a member first. Please click here to join or here to sign in.
  	11-09-2007 8:07 AM by KCan Categories & Keywords: Travel, history, Books, west, Travel, stenger, powell