{"id":464,"date":"2018-09-13T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/what-i-learned-in-our-history-class\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:15:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:15:14","slug":"what-i-learned-in-our-history-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"What I Learned in our History Class"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My 11-year-old grandson and I checked off \u201ccompleted\u201d by his home-school subjects one-by-one yesterday. I get to be his \u201csubstitute\u201d teacher when His mom is away. The best part is I find that I learn as much as he does when we\u2019re \u201cin class\u201d. Some of his curriculum (i.e., American History, geography, and reading) are interwoven in subject matter which ties an era together. <\/p>\n

Presently, he is studying the 1850\u2019s to the 1870’s which looks closely at our Country during turbulent, violent years between the North and the South that led to the deadly Civil War. We were appalled as we uncomfortably read about slavery and how divided the states were about being pro or anti-slavery. In 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed all persons held as slaves in states of the rebellion \u201cforever free\u201d by The Emancipation Proclamation. <\/p>\n

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We were both moved, as we read the true story of young Harriet Tubman who was born into slavery and finally escaped because of her strong will and courage. \u201cSomeday,\u2019 she said, \u201cI\u2019m going to be free.\u201d And, she was. Then, as we read from the book \u201cAcross Five Aprils\u201d, I was literally brought to tears when we read this excerpt because it was just so close “to home” today: <\/p>\n

Shadrach, with his large eyes grave with sympathy said, “I wonder what the President is thinking.” Jethro replied, “I guess Ole\u2019 Abe has troubles over and above any of us.” “MR. Lincoln, Jeth.\u201d He would remember the rebuke to the end of his days. He would remember, and he would feel ashamed at the memory, but still, he would wonder. People \u2013 smart people, one would suppose since they printed newspapers and drew pictures for them \u2013 spoke of the President as \u201cthe baboon,\u201d \u201cthe ugly, ignorant, backwoods Lincoln,\u201d and other names as vicious and expressive of hate. Under no circumstance would he, Jethro Creighton, show disrespect to the President. \u201cI think a lot of Mr. Lincoln,\u201d he stated in quiet self-defense after a while. \u201cI know you do, Jeth.\u201d \u201cLots of people don\u2019t. I could name you people that hate him like poison.\u201d \u201cNot only in this neighborhood \u2013 not only in the South, either. It seems that people everywhere are criticizing him. The abolitionists hate him as much as the sympathizers of the South do. People blame him for the mistakes of his generals; and they\u2019re just as bitter about his grammar, his appearance, his family.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m no wise enough to measure Mr. Lincoln, Jeth; I just don\u2019t know. But I have a feeling of confidence and faith in him that I can\u2019t always justify. Sometimes I\u2019m angered with him as others are; sometimes I can\u2019t understand him. But somehow my faith in him always comes back.\u201d <\/p>\n

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I know you must know what I was thinking as I read those words about the divided country and the animosity for its President, and as we all know, President Abraham Lincoln became one of the most beloved presidents of all times. It often feels like we live in the worst times as we daily watch the news of wars, various factions who love, hate, honor, dishonor, protest or pro-act. Since the beginning of time, there has been always been conflict. What do we do with it all in this year of 2018? I like to think that the final lines from that book state where we should be: \u201cSomehow my faith in HIM ((I insert God, here) always comes back.\u201d Placing our trust in the ONE who knew ALL back in the BC and AD, in the 1800\u2019s and now, the 2000\u2019s. He is still overseeing it all, and is at the helm of this great big wonderful, and oftentimes, troubled world. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what to make of all the craziness in our world today. But I do know Who holds our todays and tomorrows, and who holds our hands through it all. “History is in-the-making” today for generations to come. Frankly, I want to claim my place in history. I hope to be one who believed in something so strongly that I made a difference. I like to live knowing that this world is not my home, and the history I made was doing the things that mattered on earth because it matters in heaven. Loving, giving, caring, being kind, tender-hearted, morally centered, loving God and my neighbor just might be the way to make history that really matters. Choosing which side of history we’ll be on should sure make us want to choose wisely. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My 11-year-old grandson and I checked off \u201ccompleted\u201d by his home-school subjects one-by-one yesterday. I get to be his \u201csubstitute\u201d teacher when His mom is away. The best part is I find that I learn as much as he does when we\u2019re \u201cin class\u201d. Some of his curriculum (i.e., American History, geography, and reading) are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1588,1589,1590,1341,1591,1592,1593,1594,1595,1596,1597],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abe-lincoln","tag-across-five-aprils","tag-american-history","tag-civil-war","tag-divided-country","tag-emancipation-proclamation","tag-harriet-tubman","tag-north-and-the-south","tag-president-lincoln","tag-pro-or-anti-slavery","tag-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8569,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/8569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}