Did Pat Garrett really shoot Billy the Kid? Did Anastasia really die during the Russian Revolution? In History's Mysteries, kids will learn about important historical figures while also acting as detectives, using critical thinking skills to help them use their best judgment to find out what really happened in what will come to feel like the not-so-distant past. Learning about history has never been more fun than in this attractively designed, high-interest series.
Shares information on different historical mysteries and rumored oddities, including the Bermuda triangle, Bigfoot, and the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa.
Creative historical projects that get high-school and college students to research, explore, analyze, and then write or discuss some of history's most intriguing controversies, conspiracies, and puzzles!
History's Mysteries Card Game
This view received a good deal of publicity in 1955 with publication of Christopher Hoffman's The Murder of the Man Who Was Shakespeare. In 1956 Hoffman opened the Walsingham family vault in Chislehurst church, where he expected to find ...
Why were dinosaurs so huge? How were they named, and what did they look like? Discover a wealth of fascinating facts, accompanied by fun-to-color pictures, mazes, spot-the-differences, and other activities.
Designed to help students think critically about mysteries in ancient history. Includes teacher lesson plans, background information, and student activities.
G. Robert Blakey, βThe Mafia and JFK's Murder,β Washington Post Weekly Edition, November 15β21, 1993: 23β24. Blakey received space in the Post because, ... Charley Shively, letter to the editor, Journal of History, 82 (June 1995): 389.
History's Mysteries. 1: The Missing Years of Gutenberg
Cold Case: The Tombstone Mysteries investigates the real stories behind the mysteries, including unsolved crimes that await a solution.
It is this distinction between genuine and bogus ancient mysteries that History's Mysteries attempts to clarify. Sometimes a few hours of research and a modicum of critical thinking can dispense with anything in the second category.