About MFB

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I am Ed Darrell. Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub is my weblog.

You may contact me by e-mail at edarrell-AT-sbcglobal-DOT-net.

If you are reading this in Microsoft Internet Explorer, all the sidebar stuff has fallen to the bottom of the page. I do not know what reinforcer failed to let it fall so low, but it’s on your end, and it’s the software — I can’t do anything about it at this end. I’m sorry. I use FireFox to avoid such problems.

Of all the bathtubs in all the bathrooms in the world, and I had to pick Millard Fillmore’s!

Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub started as my way of learning about making blogs work, for my hope to integrate blog usage into the classroom.

This blog focuses on history education, with meanders into all of the social studies: Economics, history, geography, law, political science, and government (have I left something unmentioned? It’s in there). Debunking false, bad, bogus and voodoo history occupied me from at least junior high school; the story of Millard Fillmore’s bathtub, the hoax perpetrated by H. L. Mencken and the inability of historians to straighten out the issue in 90 years, seemed a good jumping off point.

My hope is to help students, their learning partners (especially parents), teachers and administrators make history sing for the students — and other social studies, too.

My experience is broad — political campaigns, legislative staffing, executive agencies, law, private business (airline, wireless telephones, logistics and other management consulting), and education (college, graduate school, secondary).

Please provide comments: What helps you? What sources do you know about that I don’t list, but should?

What do you know about Millard Fillmore’s bathtub that I don’t?

[Well, yes, I do find it irritating that people keep calling me "Tim Pagonos" or "Tim Panogos." It's rather an insult to a beautiful work of rock, don't you think?]