Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Joseph Postel l is Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College and a faculty member in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program at Ashland University. During the 2024 summer residential program, he delivered the Sunday evening lecture, “After Party: The Roots of Congress’s Dysfunction.”

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Katherine Thrailkill at Summer 2024 MAHG. The course would prepare students for her fast-paced junior-level AP American History class. It would give them time to think about American principles while learning to read primary documents. A key mentor was Nancie Lindblom, who showed Thrailkill how to model civil discussion.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In the next few days, those who have completed all coursework for the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program may begin writing their qualifying exams, so as to graduate with their degrees this December. The post MAHG Qualifying Exam Tips – Fall 2024 appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

As part of an ongoing series examining Contributions of Scholars of Color , the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Department conducted a a second set of oral history interviews during the 2024 National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) Annual Meeting held in Los Angeles, California.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2024

The deadline to apply is March 5, 2024. Visit the NEH website to browse all of the 2024 summer programs. The institutes featured below are a few of the ones that could be of interest to people’s history educators.

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Teaching American History

JUNE 11, 2024

In preparation for the 2024 Alexander Lebenstein Teacher Education Institute in Richmond, VA, Amy Livingston is reading Doris Bergen’s War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust. Spanning five centuries of Latino experience in the US, the book will enrich her knowledge of American history as a whole.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2024

I’m principal of a high school with a well-known name, only because it’s the site of one of the most devastating school shootings in recent American history: Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. As of mid-January, we’ve already had three school shooting deaths in 2024. Why don’t we do it?

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For the past year, staff and faculty members at Teaching American History have heard from our teacher partners that they want election materials! We know you want to help your students better understand today’s political environment by providing them with sources that illustrate the history of contentious elections.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Meanwhile, almost 40 percent of the American public still contest the results of a free and fair election, and with the 2024 federal election around the corner, political polarization in the United States seems neverending, leaving democracy in an arguably fragile state.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This statue of Daisy Lee Gatson Bates, sculpted by Benjamin Victor, was unveiled in National Statuary Hall on May 8, 2024. The post Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine appeared first on Teaching American History. Courtesy of the Architect of the Capitol. But the pictures don’t tell the whole story. Poston, Ted. “A

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 27, 2024

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. The application will be open September 9-29, 2024. TAH Teachers at a Multi Day Seminar in Angel Island, CA in August 2024. Teaching American History hosts Multi-Day seminars at no cost to American history and government teachers.

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Previous Chapters Chapter 1: The History of the Civil War in Kentucky Chapter 2: Surrounding Sherman and Grant Chapter 3: William Tecumseh Sherman in Kentucky Chapter 4: Civil War Camp Nevin and Nolin Station Chapter 5: West Point, Sherman, and Fort Duffield Chapter 6: The Confederate Invasion of Kentucky Life and Landscapes Blog Site is at www.vanstockum.blog/lookin (..)

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Previous Chapters Chapter 1: The History of the Civil War in Kentucky Chapter 2: Surrounding Sherman and Grant Chapter 3: William Tecumseh Sherman in Kentucky Chapter 4: Civil War Camp Nevin and Nolin Station Chapter 5: West Point, Sherman, and Fort Duffield Chapter 6: The Confederate Invasion of Kentucky Chapter 7: Morgan’s Raiders During the (..)

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Previous Chapters Chapter 1: The History of the Civil War in Kentucky Chapter 2: Surrounding Sherman and Grant Chapter 3: William Tecumseh Sherman in Kentucky Chapter 4: Civil War Camp Nevin and Nolin Station Chapter 5: West Point, Sherman, and Fort Duffield Chapter 6: The Confederate Invasion of Kentucky Chapter 7: Morgan’s Raiders During the (..)

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

On Monday, March 4, 2024 , award-winning musicologist and music historian Guthrie P. A Guggenheim Fellow and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Guthrie P. will discuss his book Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present. Ramsey, Jr. Dr. Ramsey has lectured on music nationally and internationally.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 16, 2024

Bush (2008) For more teacher resources on the presidential election cycle, check out our Spring 2024 webinar series, Every Four Years. The American Presidency is available for free download from our bookstore. The post Resources for Teaching the Presidential Election appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Meet the APSA’s 2024 Summer Rise Cohort and their Interviews Below Amelia Goettsch is a rising-senior at Poolesville High School in Maryland. Some of my favorite classes that I’ve taken are AP American History and AP Government. I am also a three-sport athlete where I do soccer, swimming, and track each season.

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

He passed away suddenly on September 5, 2024. Department of Justice website CSUN political science professor Boris Ricks during 2024 commencement | Photo credit: CSUN Newsroom We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of our beloved friend and colleague Dr. Boris E. Ricks on September 5th, 2024. Dr. Boris E.

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ASHP CML

MARCH 5, 2024

The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning is hiring a new team member! Tuesday, March 5, 2024 - 14:23 The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning is hiring a new team member! The Assistant Director will report to the Executive Director.

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

From the Sentinel-News November 7, 2024 Taylor Davis, Editor To buy “Surrounding Fort Knox, Including Southern Indiana,” read the blog, watch his videos, listen to the podcast, or purchase any of Van Stockum’s books, head to [link].

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Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Previous Chapters Chapter 1: The History of the Civil War in Kentucky Chapter 2: Surrounding Sherman and Grant Chapter 3: William Tecumseh Sherman in Kentucky Chapter 4: Civil War Camp Nevin and Nolin Station Life and Landscapes Blog Site is at www.vanstockum.blog/lookin www.facebook.com/reggievanstockum www.instagram.com/reggievanstockum www.vimeo.com/reggievanstockum (..)

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 30, 2023

This means that young people are learning to read the news with a critical eye, to assess current events through the lens of history, and to see through red-baiting and fear-mongering scare tactics.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

Thanks to a generous collaboration with Dartmouth College historian Matthew Delmont , the Zinn Education Project sent 14,000 copies of Delmont’s book Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad to public school teachers, school librarians, and teacher educators.

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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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Society for Classical Studies

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Call for Applications: Penn State Special Collections Library Research Grants kskordal Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:13 Image Applications are being accepted for research grants utilizing The Eberly Family Special Collections Library. Franklin African American History Research Award Thanks to a generous gift from Dr. V.P.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 9, 2025

Johnson is a tenured Instructor in Political Science, History, and Geography at Minnesota State Community and Technical College in Moorhead, MN. in the Global Politics Classroom in 2024. She also served as a member of the 2024 TLC at APSA Program Committee.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

That money came through a federal program that pumped $24 billion in grants to child care centers across the country to keep them running during the pandemic — part of the single largest investment in child care in American history. It’ll just be more like quicksand than a sudden drop-off.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

Visited on-site June 2024. Malik Ali, a James Madison Fellow and 2017 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, is Tukman Distinguished Teacher of History at the Branson School in Ross, California. The post 60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Teaching American History

JULY 2, 2024

Teaching American History emphasizes the use of primary documents. Why, then, is Teaching American History publishing a series of narrative histories? In case you didn’t know about the narrative histories, let me describe them, before I explain them.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

We live in a time right now, in 2024, where things don’t have to make sense. Now none of this makes sense. The math doesn’t add up. But guess what? Facts don’t actually have to matter. Logic is relevant or irrelevant. It just depends. And that’s exactly what happened then.

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Diane Ravitch

JULY 4, 2024

In my school days, we learned only the positive spin on American history. As a college student and a graduate student and an adult, I learned about the dark side of our nation’s history. My mother was an immigrant from Bessarabia who would not tolerate a bad word against the country that took in her family.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The state also used the budget provision to justify dropping AP African American Studies for high school students during the 2024-25 school year. A spokesman for the South Carolina Department of Education said that the state acknowledges that African-American history is our shared history.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

On January 8, 2024, historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad joined educators Jesse Hagopian and T. 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. Now none of this makes sense.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 1, 2025

Prior to the 2024 US Presidential Election, APSAs Diversity and Inclusion Programs Department issued a call for submissions, entitled “ 2024 APSA Post-Election Reflections ,” for a PSNow blog series of political science scholars who reflect on key moments, ideas, and challenges faced in the 2024 election.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

According to his 2024 campaign website, if reelected, Trump would “completely overhaul federal standards on school discipline to get out-of-control troublemakers OUT of the classroom and INTO reform schools and corrections facilities.” Trump’s 2024 platform advocates undercutting some of the protections teachers unions support.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

The Biden administration announced significant rule changes to Title IX in 2024 that undid some of the changes the Trump administration made, including removing a mandate for colleges to have live hearings and cross-examinations when investigating sexual assaults on campus.

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