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Using Fashion to Teach Historical Context – It’s Not All About Dates

By Kim Brecklein
Shakespeare's Ladies Paper Doll

Tell a roomful of students you want to talk about the 18th (or any other) century for the next few weeks, and you’re likely to get a roomful of glassy-eyed stares. But show the same group a picture of a man and women in period costume, and you establish an immediate context for the rest [...]

How the Prom Found Me

By Kim Brecklein
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I got interested in proms – well, not in high school. Like the rest of the geeky girls, I went to the movies on prom night. (My prom-eligible years happened back in the Stone Age when girls had to have dates to get into the prom – no date, no prom. This part of high [...]

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By Kim Brecklein

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