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Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: One Southern Town’s Story; Part 2

Teaching American History

Entering Belmont High as a junior, she would be the first African American to graduate from the high school. In 2018 she published a memoir, Abundant Faith, Secrets to Plenty: Traveling on Lifes Journey (Westbow Press). Ellen Tucker, a longtime blog contributor for Teaching American History. The post Implementing Brown v.

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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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Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine

Teaching American History

Professor David Krugler (University of Wisconsin, Platteville) is the author of 1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back (Cambridge University Press, 2015) as well as of two books on US policy during the Cold War. The post Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine appeared first on Teaching American History.

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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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How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in three cities

The Hechinger Report

In Norfolk, Virginia, the juniors and seniors enrolled in an African American history class taught by Ed Allison were working on their capstone projects, using nearby Fort Monroe, the site where the first enslaved Africans landed in 1619, as a jumping off point to explore their family history.

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Water Rights in the West: The Hoover Dam

Teaching American History

Riverhead Books, Reprint edition, 2018. Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water , Penguin: Revised Edition, 1993. The post Water Rights in the West: The Hoover Dam appeared first on Teaching American History. David Owen, Where the Water Goes : Life and Death Along the Colorado River.

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In Philadelphia, a symbol of police brutality comes down, and a monument to black student protesters will go up

The Hechinger Report

About 140 public school buildings are still named after Confederate leaders, according to a 2018 analysis by Education Week. The following year, she took African American history, a required course in Philadelphia schools that is an enduring legacy of the 1967 walkouts.

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