During the 2017-18 school year, Mr. Hanna’s AP U.S. History class, in partnership with the American School of Paris, participated gathering the untold stories of soldiers buried at the Suresnes American Cemetery, just outside of Paris. The Monuments Project engages students across the globe.
Watch a video of our students telling their experiences during this project and learn about Mr. Hanna, Mr. Tom Neville, the Director of the project, and the other team members of this project HERE.
If you’re anything like me, you’ve walked past the series of plaques on the wall of our lobby many times and perhaps have stopped to read them, maybe even paused and thought briefly for a moment about their significance. Or maybe as we most often are hurrying to get where we are going, you rushed, not noticing them at all. Of the four plaques in front of the Principal’s office, one dedicated to the 20 Alumni men of Stuyvesant killed in World War I.
Learn the story of one of those soldiers, Calvin William Greene, through the eyes of one of our students, Dawei Huang, in his blog post about his research during the Monuments Project HERE.
Learn how other Stuyvesant students, like Benjamin Weinstein, were so impacted by their fellow classmates researched that they visited soldier Greene’s gravesite in person on a family vacation this summer.
Mr. Hanna is the author of two books, his most Recent, Rendezvous With Death and Knights by The Sea. (photo credit: Otherwise Lost blog post by Benjamin Weinstein)
