Teaching American History

APRIL 30, 2024

This blog post, written by faculty member Sarah Morgan Smith , was first posted on January 19, 2021. An online resource guide at Library of Congress, U.S. For each president, library staff have collected primary materials illustrating what made his inauguration unique.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

At the meeting, reading a prepared speech from her cell phone, Saykhamphone shared the cotton gin story and told board members that “for me to truly appreciate American history and my Black and Asian history, standards should not be watered down.” Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2025

Through the media and a series of user-friendly products, services and events, The HistoryMakers enlightens, entertains and educates the public, helping to refashion a more inclusive record of American history. Read more Related Articles: The HistoryMakers: Biography: Dr. Matthew Holden, Jr. UIS professor Matthew Holden, Jr.

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Teaching American History

JUNE 25, 2024

1934–Workman attaching cables to an eight cubic yard capacity concrete bucket at a transfer station on the Nevada rim of Black Canyon,” Library of Congress, 1934. Blackstone Publishing, 2021. Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water , Penguin: Revised Edition, 1993.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Keene at MAHG 2021 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.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

History,” Journal of American History 95:2 (September 2008); Michael L. Reading: Eleanor Harvey, “Introduction,” The Civil War in American Art , (Washington, D. Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2021); Lucretia Giese, “Winslow Homer’s Prisoners from the Front: an American History Painting?”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In 2021, a Bucks County venture capitalist and longtime Republican funder concerned about COVID closures donated half a million dollars to school board races around the state. Also in 2021 came Pennridge’s first serious battles over diversity programs. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Among them is Ayanna Mayes, a librarian who has spoken out about the books, particularly by Black and queer authors, purged from the shelves of the library she oversees at Chapin High School in Chapin, South Carolina. PEN America said in a statement that it has documented nearly 16,000 instances of book bans nationwide since 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Pre-K In 2021, the Biden administration proposed a universal preschool program as part of a multi-trillion-dollar social spending plan called Build Back Better. Walz has a long history of supporting LGBTQ+ students in Minnesota, where he was the faculty adviser of Mankato West High School’s first Gay-Straight Alliance club in the 1990s.

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