Learning about History through Sports

Here's the American History-Sports Fun and Games website-there is a trivia quiz section with interesting details if players want to read more. (Hey, I didn't know that Roger Bannister became a neurologist after breaking the 4-minute mile barrier).

There's also a memory game-and you gotta be fast. The only link here is to a bio on Muhammad Ali.

The current exhibition is highlighting "breaking records, breaking barriers." Sports has its own history, of course, but can also reflect the times. Kids read about Jackie Robinson, for example, and learn about race issues in America. The emergence of women in sports also reflects changing times; I lettered in track in high school but my neither of my older sisters were eligible to letter.

Yikes, there's cheering in the background-cool but distracting; the site loses points for not having a turn-down-the-sound button on the site. Some of the additional information links are broken also.