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Part of being a successful hunter is being a successful tracker, and tracking is not a skill that’s learned overnight. In some types of hunting, such as duck hunting, tracking is really not necessary; you’ll post up somewhere in a marsh and wait for ducks to take flight, or you’ll call them with a specially ...

Real, vital historical understanding requires someone to bring the facts “to life” through the animating power of proper interpretation. —E. Wayne Ross, The Social Studies Curriculum (2006) One has to go back, behind what appear to be the “facts” of ...

We tend to think that stockpiling food and supplies for an emergency is a modern invention. But it’s not. It actually started thousands of years ago, with people stockpiling food for a snowy day. Those ancestors of ours knew something ...

Historians with increasing and distressing frequency are openly admitting that history has no meaning and shows little or no purpose or goals. — C. Gregg Singer, “The Problem of Historical Interpretation” (1976) One has to go back of the “facts” ...

Anti-gun hysteria found its way to East Manatee, Fla., on Thursday when a school was locked down because a history teacher brought a replica of a Civil War rifle — that does not work — to class. Braden River Elementary ...

  The lowly potato. This dull tuber seldom ranks high on a list of superfoods. It won’t make headlines as the next “it” food. In fact, the most commonly known fact about potatoes is knowledge of the devastating Irish potato ...

As long as man has organized into society, there have been those on the fringe. These were people who, for one reason or another, just didn’t fit into polite society. Such were the hobos of our nation’s past. We tend ...

The prepping movement seems to be growing by leaps and bounds. While there are no accurate figures about how many people in the United States identify themselves as “preppers,” estimates range right around 3 million people. A more accurate idea ...

Simply talking too much about certain subjects can get you a $1,092 fine if you’re a rickshaw operator in Charleston, South Carolina. A Charleston rickshaw operator was recently fined that amount because one of its employees pointed historical sights out ...

The U.S. government has been keeping information secret that proves nuclear weapons have been a far greater danger to average Americans than we believed. A recently declassified document shows that the US Air Force once dropped two live hydrogen bombs ...