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With an eye on the calendar and the ten month march of a school year, let me share with you ten successful classroom strategies that my colleagues and I have utilized in teaching the American Civil War. Here is a chance to be creative while addressing state standards. In this context, your students can be transformed into historians who teach one another. The longer I taught, the more I came to see my role as a teacher as being more of a “guide on the side," being an enthusiastic booster of history by removing myself from the position of didactic “sage on the stage.” In a curriculum that is a mile long and a quarter inch deep, it is difficult to teach the Civil War in a meaningful way.