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NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Grant was then able to steam down the Tennessee River with his army and into history. Union gunboats were now free to move on toward Nashville, which General Johnston, withdrawing from Kentucky, then abandoned. Grant would meet, and ultimately defeat, Johnston’s troops at the bloody Battle of Pittsburg Landing. You know it as Shiloh.

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Breckinridge ran for United States President in 1860, losing to Lincoln but winning much of the vote in the southern states]. Confederate President Jefferson was in Murfreesboro reviewing troops on the weekend of the wedding and may also have attended.

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

She was buried next to her brothers in the Lexington Cemetery. In 1884, the body of Confederate General Ben Hardin Helm was reinterred at the Helm Place in Elizabethtown.

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Teaching American History

JUNE 4, 2024

Photo courtesy of Center of Military History Thursday June 6, 2024 is the 80 th anniversary of D-Day, the day Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy to begin the “great and noble undertaking” of liberating Europe. The post The 80th Anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944 appeared first on Teaching American History.

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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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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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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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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. To reach every student in the U.S.,

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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. These courses lay an excellent foundation for a deep understanding of the history and government of America.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This statue of Daisy Lee Gatson Bates, sculpted by Benjamin Victor, was unveiled in National Statuary Hall on May 8, 2024. To answer these questions, we must look beyond the photographs and focus on a singular figure in the story of the Little Rock Nine, an African American woman named Daisy Bates. Who supported and inspired them?

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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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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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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. A widely-published writer, he’s the author, co-author, or editor of four music history books and many essays and articles. Ramsey, Jr. Ramsey, Jr.

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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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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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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! Keep reading for the job description and application information.

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Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 26, 2024

The City of West Point does an excellent job of identifying and highlighting its history. West Point’s history reflects what it takes to move a giant Army through the region, preparing it to fight the enemy. Mabel Lake was the great-granddaughter of Enoch Boone [one of Squire’s sons and nephew of Daniel].

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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. At Poolesville High School, I am a part of the humanities magnet program where I am supported as I study my interests in political science, writing, editing, and history.

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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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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

His new book, “Surrounding Fort Knox, Including Southern Indiana,” showcases Van Stockum’s journey through the counties around Southern Indiana and Fort Knox and details the area’s rich natural and cultural history. From the Sentinel-News November 7, 2024 Taylor Davis, Editor Off we go, and we find all kinds of new places.”

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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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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. This included 4,000 hardback copies in 2022 and 2023 — and 10,000 copies of the 2024 paperback edition. In a class with teachers , Delmont explained the relevance of learning this history.

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DECEMBER 30, 2023

More than 10,000 teachers signed up to access people’s history lessons in 2023 , bringing our full registration at the Zinn Education Project to more than 160,000 teachers from every state in the country! In this perilous time, please donate so that we can defend teachers’ right to teach people’s history.

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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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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. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Richland Community College.

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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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AUGUST 20, 2024

History this Week. The History Channel. 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. I Question America: 1963-1964.”

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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

Jesse Hagopian: The Condemnation of Blackness is a history of the construction of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the United States, and it reveals the influence of this pernicious myth rooted in statistics on our society and our sense of self. We live in a time right now, in 2024, where things don’t have to make sense.

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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 agency will continue to seek meaningful opportunities to build bridges across divisions, honor the richness of our shared history, and teach it with integrity, all while ensuring full compliance with state law, he said. A spokesman for the South Carolina Department of Education called the lawsuit meritless in a statement to The 19th.

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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. I am so encouraged by this!

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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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AUGUST 12, 2024

In a speech to the American Federation of Teachers , Harris decried the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” laws passed by Florida and other states in recent years. 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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