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| LFM: Eddie RickenbackerHis auto racing exploits earned him the name "Fast Eddie." He participated in the 1912, 1914, 1915 and 1916 Indianapolis 500 and ended up, years later, buying the racetrack and running it until 1945. Yet, it was in the air that Edward Vernon Rickenbacker revealed true genius, courage and skill.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| LFM: George Henry Sharpe I (Union Spy Chief)When General Joseph “Fightin’ Joe” Hooker took over the Army of the Potomac in early 1863, he realized he was fighting blind. For the task of "commanders' eyes," Hooker recruited George Henry Sharpe, an attorney from Kingston, New York. Sharpe was a dedicated leader, conscientious and efficient, characteristics which would be put to good use when Hooker approached him in 1863 to head the new Bureau of Military Intelligence.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| LFM: George Henry Sharpe II (Union Spy Chief)George Henry Sharpe, head of the Bureau of Military Intelligence, through the systematic assembly and analysis of data from multiple sources, provided Union commanders their "eyes," as well as a substantial edge, in the last two years of the Civil War.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| LFM: LeathernecksFrom dimmest memory, U.S. Marines have been called "leathernecks." Members of the Corps bear that designation with pride but the term actually began as one of derision. The history of the term goes back to the 1700s. In the Prussian military, officers wore a neck cloth made of silk, velvet or black ribbed leather.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Lincoln and Re-ElectionIn 1864, with the country mired in a Civil War, the re-election of President Abraham Lincoln was by no means assured.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Navajo/Hopi Land Dispute IIThe Hopi-Navajo land dispute is much more intense because it is wrapped up in issues of energy independence, resource exploitation, and environmental annihilation.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Navajo/Hopi Land Dispute IThe Navajo/Hopi land dispute involves an excruciatingly complex mix of tradition, religion, economic exploitation, scarce energy resources, and environmental devastation.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| LFM: The Golden ThirteenBy the early twentieth century, despite its long history of racial accommodation, the U.S. Navy was aping the Jim Crow prejudice of American society. That began to change for good during World War II with the patriotic torrent of Negro recruits following Pearl Harbor -- and finally with the commissioning in June 1944 of the Golden Thirteen, the first black officers in Navy history.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| LFM: Operation BabyliftIn closing days of the Vietnam War, with the North Vietnamese literally at the gates of Saigon, the United States rescued thousands of Vietnamese orphans from harm’s way...many of whom had been fathered by and left behind by American and European soldiers.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Ella FitzgeraldA Virginia girl, product of an unhappy home and a common law marriage, at times homeless, a delinquent, street dancer and a numbers runner for the mob, but, oh my goodness, could Ella Fitzgerald sing.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
