by | Feb 11, 2025 | New Blog
It’s February 12, and Abraham Lincoln was born on this date in 1809. It’s the perfect day to spotlight the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Museum in Springfield, Illinois. Several years ago, American School employees visited the downstate library and museum...
by | Feb 11, 2025 | New Blog
It’s February 11, and inventor Thomas Edison was born on this date in 1847. He invented the phonograph, the motion picture camera and the lightbulb among thousands of other inventions, and so naturally his birthday got us thinking about inventions. Since American...
by | Feb 10, 2025 | New Blog
It’s February 10, and on this date in 1996 a computer known as Deep Blue defeated chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov for the first time. This event got us thinking about computers and what they can do. Nearly 30 years ago, it was a big deal when a computer defeated a...
by | Feb 7, 2025 | New Blog
It’s February 7, and author Laura Ingalls Wilder was born on this date in 1867. She is best-known for her Little House on the Prairie children’s books which were adapted into a television series in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Her birthday got us thinking about...
by | Feb 5, 2025 | New Blog
It’s February 6, and Massachusetts became a state on this date in 1788. Massachusetts is a special state to us at American School because we were founded in Massachusetts in 1897. Although we called Massachusetts home for just a few years before moving to Illinois,...
by | Feb 5, 2025 | New Blog
It’s February 5, and we’re at the exact halfway point of National School Counseling Week. American School is proud to work with thousands of school counselors across the country through our independent study program. The independent study program allows students who...
