Spring Mill State Park offers lesson in Hoosier railroad history
David Nord will use photos, maps and documents to compare how two Hoosier railroad lines affected milling businesses.
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David Nord will use photos, maps and documents to compare how two Hoosier railroad lines affected milling businesses.
I first encountered Thomas Cahill in the reading requirements for ninth grade history, where Mr. Dachille’s designation of Cahill’s book The Gifts of the Jews as a substitute for the dry textbooks to which I was accustomed instantly granted him canonical stature in my mind. And for good reason: Cahill’s accessible and fascinating takes on the histories of the Irish, the Jews, Jesus Christ, the Greeks, and the Middle Ages (Volumes I-V of his Hinges of History series) have, besides reaching bestseller lists in the U.S. and beyond, reconditioned us as to how we ought to be learning and thi...