Students Rewriting History

Barry Jurgensen's history class is helping to ease racial tension. Over the past five years, the teacher and his students have researched and successfully nominated 15 sites associated with the Underground Railroad.

Jurgensen, who worked as a National Park Service historian before becoming a teacher, blogged that he wanted to teach students to look outside the history book. He provided them the opportunity to become historians.

He likens this work to a treasure hunter. "'Indiana Jones' and 'National Treasure' aren't too far off from what we find here," he said.

I'd love to have been in this history class. The surprise of discovery had to have been high.