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Yesterday I attended the memorial service for Jane Hall: an outstanding teacher, amazing woman, and force of nature. This remarkable celebra...

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, I thought I would take a look at some of the fifth-century Latin written by this remarkable individual an...

My daughter Sarah is heading off to college in a couple weeks. She will be a freshman at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, and s...

At this year's American Classical League Institute in Minneapolis, I attended a session on the Cambridge Latin Course . Having taught f...

A colleague, who is an outstanding teacher of geography, is conducting some research and came across this map of what is now eastern North C...

I was asked by my sister-in-law to provide a simple list of Latin words to help her young daughter learn vocabulary and reading. I thought ...

I have encouraged my students this year to read and translate their Latin passages in the order in which they appear, left to right. We have...

I was listening the other day to a colleague who teaches Spanish. She was talking about the difference between -ar verbs and -er verbs. Sh...

While grading Latin I tests yesterday, I came across some interesting notes a student had scribbled in the margin of her paper. In the secti...

While looking online recently for a good Latin quote on love, I found amore, more, ore, re I stopped. I reread the quote. I thought this was...

I hear repeatedly from my students that they have been taught that Latin word order does not matter. I gasp and reply that Latin word order ...

When people ask why the study of Latin and the classics is so popular in Virginia, I usually tell them that it is all Thomas Jefferson's...

I always get excited when I come across an echo from one author to another. When I was reading Martial the other day, I found Verona docti s...