Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Teaching American History provides various free resources for American history and government teachers, including our popular seminars , multi-day seminars , and extensive database of original source documents. Two Core Document Collections cover the entire scope of American history.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Nekkita Beans, a Mississippi native and president of the University of Mississippi’s Black Student Union, stood center stage in a campus auditorium reading aloud the history of a group of men who fought to keep people like her enslaved, illiterate and, in many ways, invisible. OXFORD, Miss. Ole Miss decided to take a different path.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. Ashbrook Publishing, 2014. Record for Monday, September 17.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. We all have some history. She deferred her loan payments until she no longer could.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

In 2014, an Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice remedial plan, created as part of a settlement agreement following a 2012 lawsuit against the department, specifically called for a blended-learning model to resolve inadequate educational opportunities in the system. Houston said the average class size is just three or four students.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Principal Faculty Joshua Brown is professor of history emeritus and former executive director of the American Social History Project and professor of history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University. He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S.

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

He began attending in the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference in 2008 and served as a track moderator starting in 2011-2014 for the Diversity, Inclusiveness, and Equality Track. Ricks held a number of leadership and committee positions. Photo Credit: U.S.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Before touring History Colorado Center’s exhibit, The Sand Creek Massacre: The Betrayal That Changed Cheyenne and Arapaho People Forever , in Denver this summer, I had never heard of Silas Soule. Ray Tyler The post The Sand Creek Massacre appeared first on Teaching American History. Morrow disappeared forever.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2020

It probably means you’re not regularly talking with them about current events and they’re not getting a good education about American history in school. When he was 4 in 2014, I talked to him about how Michael Brown had been killed by the police. Malcolm X and Rosa Parks and the history of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The LA Times bombing is not emphasized in many history classrooms today. One possible answer invokes the old adage, history is written by the winners. Perhaps American history students should learn about the LA Times bombing so they understand the complexities of the labor struggle in this era.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2017

During my scholarly career, beginning with a college honors essay on preachers and theologians who celebrated English monarchy in the American colonies, I have highlighted the consensus that runs through our history. Back in the District of Columbia, African-American history gained two sites. The Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 18, 2025

Ray Tyler Ray Tyler was the 2014 James Madison Fellow for South Carolina and a 2016 graduate of Ashland Universitys Masters Program in American History and Government. The post Margaret Sanger: The Woman Rebel appeared first on Teaching American History.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

History,” Journal of American History 95:2 (September 2008); Michael L. Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2021); Lucretia Giese, “Winslow Homer’s Prisoners from the Front: an American History Painting?” Cook, “Seeing the Visual in U.S. Wilson, “Visual Culture: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis?,”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Mattivi, whose eighth-grade English students discuss articles about the environment, civic life, and American history after using online literacy programs that provide similar material at different reading levels. I could never go back to the old model,” says Ms. But computers are expensive.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

The figures are from 2014, the most recent available. But while a history major might have trouble finding a job right out of school, these advocates say, his or her degree may end up paying off years later. Personally, I wouldn’t want my kid, because they’re a history major, to have less opportunity than other students.”.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

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.

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