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You Have Primary Sources in Your Family

Studies Weekly

You Have Primary Sources in Your Family May 10, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Primary sources transport students through history. Primary sources are excellent tools to help students learn how to think like historians. Students should know that their family records are also primary sources!

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Resources for Teaching the Presidential Election

Teaching American History

Edited by Jeremy Bailey and intended as a secondary and post-secondary document reader, American Presidency contains 39 introduced and edited primary sources, discussion questions, and a thematic table of contents. The post Resources for Teaching the Presidential Election appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

We hope students of Asian or Pacific Islander heritage share their experiences and their cultural traditions with their peers, and teachers include the contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans to our collective history in lessons this month. Mostly forgotten by history, thousands of Chinese immigrants, who came to the U.S.

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

Students first learn about Mississippi history in fourth grade, and that’s the first time they are supposed to delve deeply into the history of the movement to end racial segregation and discrimination. The Civil Rights Movement is a case history of what it means to be American, and what it means to exercise constitutional rights.”.

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The Condemnation of Blackness: Lies We’re Told About Crime

Zinn Education Project

Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. I appreciated hearing about the history of how data has been (mis)used to construct a narrative of Black criminality.