For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.

In this lesson, students learn about the life of Kit Carson, a famous frontiersman from the 1800s. They then sift through a series of statements about Kit Carson to untangle fact and myth. While ...

Carson is asked by a sheriff to guard a captured bank robber and the recovered loot, while his gang plots tricks and deceptions to free him.

The removal of Confederate statues in cities across the U.S. is entirely appropriate and long overdue. But the reconsideration of public tributes to historical figures involved in other tragic ...