If asked the question, "would you ever be comfortable sharing how hot your substitute is with your teacher" many students would answer with a simple "no, that's so weird". But, not history teacher Laine Winokur's students, specifically her A block class this year. An all-girls class had a substitute...

February is Black history month. This year has been very eventful for the Black community and the Black Lives Matter movement with police brutality and protests. Racial injustice has been fought for in a number of ways and many filmmakers have sent powerful messages through their features. Those messages...

Nathuram Godse shot Mahatma Gandhi three times in the chest on January 30, 1948. Today is the 73rd anniversary of Gandhi's assassination. Mahatma Gandhi is a name known by many and, oftentimes, looked upon with reverence. Gandhi was an Indian activist and leader whose policies of satya (truth) and ahimsa...

Anthony Brown is currently filling in as a history teacher at Westford Academy for Michael Colson. He is extremely excited to be teaching at WA and hopes to make this year the best it can possibly be. Q: When you went to college, did you know you wanted to be a teacher, or did you not know at the...

New history teacher, David Watts is ready to start his year at Westford Academy. Watts has taught in many schools throughout Massachusetts. After changing career paths to work as a real estate agent, Watts is ready to get back into teaching, He brings an accomplished resume filled with over 25 years...

The Black Lives Matter protests took over mainstream media this summer as people from all over the country voiced their support for anti-racist actions. Social media, connecting people during a world-wide pandemic, aided the travel of news and fostered remote discussions about racial issues. With this...

This is a continuation of a series After the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the war seemed to be in limbo. The Japanese high command was violently debating whether or not the war could be continued. Some of the most fanatical members of the imperial cabinet remained insistent that Japan must fight to...

This is a continuation of a series  While my great grandfather was being shipped throughout bases in China, just a few hundred miles to the northeast, the bloodiest battle in the Pacific Theater was being waged. The United States' strategy of "island-hopping" was inching closer to the Japanese...

From hearing about her from students to digging through boxes himself to learn more about her, and even going through multiple libraries' archives, history teacher Christopher Gorham has almost finished his thirteen-month book-writing journey since he discovered the largely forgotten personality...

With everyone at home in quarantine, people are looking for outlets to escape the confines of their houses. The internet has helped many fill that void for many people, but there's only so much you can do before scrolling through Twitter and Instagram becomes mindless and boring.  Something that might...

This is a continuation of a series that I started writing in my sophomore year. It consists of journal entries from my great grandfather's journal as he traveled overseas during the second world war. I wanted to finish these as the last few articles that I'd post during my time in high school, but given...

History teacher Stephen Scully and digital learning teacher Stephanie Gosselin are looking into purchasing VR headsets for the history department in order to give it a visual update. They are planning on implementing this new idea by March. According to Scully, the history department is exploring...