Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for February 23, 2015

Although " Ice Road Truckers" & "Pawn Stars " don’t have a lot to do with history

History channel has lost all right to use the word.

Joke’s on him. There’s about as much history on the History Channel as there are music videos on MTV.

And watch Pawn Stars all day

Agreed Mike.

not too much history left there. some on the offshoots, mainly war war war.

be nice if there were history on the history channel

If he’s a substitute teacher, he is probably already aware of the trick of kids trying to watch TV for class, and other such tricks. Substitute teaching really requires being on your game.

abbybookcase: In my day (and I suspect currently), there is little history in history classes either. Middle School: The Battle of Agincourt was in 1415. So? Never explained, just memorize it. High School: The Battle of Agincourt, on 25 October 1415 enabled the British to capture Normandy. Big deal, a generation later, the French under Jeanne d’Arc took it back. College: Don’t take history, it’s boring. .What should be taught is more like: In the Battle of Agincourt, during the Hundred Years War, they finally learned what they had missed in the largely dismounted battles at Poitier and Crecy – that the bowman determined battles more than the mounted knight. Bowmen were yeomen, independent farmers and artisans, while nobles were the only ones who could afford horses and armor. If commoners can defeat nobles, then they must be treated better. Thus we have the beginnings of free enterprise replacing feudalism; the long slow movement toward representative democracy (still unfinished). .We need more of James Burke (Connections, And the Universe Changed) which concentrate on the principle that until certain events happen, certain other ones cannot, and when the earlier ones do occur, it is only a matter of time when those dependent on them happen. Yet only those two of his works ever made it to television, and nothing similar has since.

anything that makes history come alive. the lion in winter. selma. anything well done.

School’s don’t get the actual History channel. They get a special feed. Just the facts.