Article: Legislators give Wilson humanities class an A: The educational work of four teachers earns the Golden Apple Award for an outstanding school program.

Byline: Erin Negley

May 30--A lesson about Napoleon in Wilson High School's humanities class covers a lot more than the French emperor's biography.

Social studies teacher Sarah Leiby talks about the military leader and his parallels to Adolf Hitler.

Music teacher Peter P. Sunderman plays Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture," a piece from Napoleon's era.

And Wilson art teacher Robert Chappel describes Jacques-Louis David's famous painting of Napoleon's coronation.

Dr. Doug Stenberg, who teaches literature, uses Tolstoy's "War and Peace" to explain how Russian aristocrats at the time mainly spoke French.

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