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Anna Lenardson Loves to Learn and Teach

Teaching American History

Anna Lenardson If you ask Anna Lenardson, a 2023 graduate of Ashland University’s Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program , why she enrolled in the challenging program, she replies, “I love to learn. I loved being with other teachers, talking about history and government.”

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. King calls “ diaspora literacy ” to contend with the reflection of white supremacy in my paternal lineage and its connection to world history.

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WWI and the 1920s: Interview with Jennifer Keene, Part 2.

Teaching American History

Teaching American History has recently published World War I and the 1920s: Core Documents , a collection curated by Professor Jennifer D. Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. appeared first on Teaching American History.

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OPINION: Arne Duncan, the fallible narrator

The Hechinger Report

But I do read memoirs—most recently, How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation’s Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education (2018), by Arne Duncan. All rhetorical questions, as I have no intention of taking electronic pen to paper. Department of Education in 1980.

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2023 Institute Faculty

ASHP CML

She was director of exhibitions at the New York Public Library, and previously a senior content developer and interpretive planner in the New York office of the museum design firm Ralph Appelbaum Associates, where she worked on the development of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, along with other international projects.

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A university grapples with its links to slavery and racism

The Hechinger Report

On March 2, 2018, nearly 120 years later, a plaque with the University Greys’ history was added near the window as a way to “contextualize” the window’s place on campus. A stained-glass window depicting the troop was dedicated in their honor on the campus of Ole Miss, as the university is commonly known, in 1891.

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Should student protests try to change a campus or change society?

The Hechinger Report

Drake and Matthew presented their research at a teach-in on campus in February 2018. The recent student protests caught the attention of Robin Kelley, a professor of American history and African-American studies at UCLA. In response, a handful of other students from across the university decided to join the two Ph.D.