Welcome to History 2020 To know history is to love history.

Welcome to History 2020

To know history is to love history.

Who is your instructor?

Miss Hilkemann“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.-Albert Einstein.And history is my passion.

What else?

Reading

Baseball

Tony Armas Leon Durham Ken Oberkfell

Dave Parker Willie Aikens Lloyd Moseby

Mark Clear Gary Matthews Rollie Fingers

Critters

Lucky: pretty darn lucky

Another adoptee: Tessa

John Adams

Comics

digital

Clutter

Trivia, old stuff

Thoughts about history……

Matter of perspective“There are no facts, only interpretations.”-Friedrich NietzscheHistory according to Hilkemann

http://www.values.com/inspirational-stories-tv-spots

http://www.forbetterlife.org

Things are relational. (Stuff ties together, it all makes some kind of sense,……. eventually.)

“To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is to be educated.”-Edith HamiltonIt’s a journey, continuousIt’s all around us (we may not finish book, it’s not just about dates….)

“History is something that happens to other people.” -Anonymous

‘history’ is a Greek word which means, literally, just “investigate.”

-Arnold Toynbee

"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."

--Carlos Castaneda

“Life is not simple and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple.”

David Shannon

"Historians relate not so much what is done, as what they would have believed." --Ben Franklin

“Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.” -C. V. Wedgwood

So…..

Ask questionsKeep an open mindSoak it up, enjoy

The Text

What’s required?Oral History Project, reaction papers3 Tests, take home…(use notes & book)3 In depth projectsFinal.., heroes & decade essay & objective test…

Follow, tentative scheduleNote due dates for in depth projects and testsNote oral project due datenote final taken in class, essay due

And finally

Attendance……Weather…..Wait for me!!!!!!!!!!!! Hearing!!An aside…we most always have class…I don’t miss much

The blizzard closed every north-south rail line and all but one east-west line in Nebraska.

A cow freed from a drift on the Eldon Miller farm near Belmont, NE, 1949Source: Nebraska State Historical Society

Snowbound cattle on C. H. Greenwood ranch near Whiteclay, Sheridan County, Nebraska, 1949Source: Nebraska State Historical Society

Unable to stand on the ice, nearly 150 cattle fell and froze to deathafter they wandered onto a frozen lake near Ashby, Grant County, NE, 1949

How to reach me?

Phone….leave message….. 371-7242…..644-2534Email…[email protected] or vhilkema @npsne.org