Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Bryan Little, the 2022 James Madison Foundation Fellow for Kansas completed his MAHG degree in 2024. For Little, government class entails “constitutional study and human behavior study side by side.” The post Teaching the Constitution in the Context of Human Behavior appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Katherine Thrailkill considered careers in drama, law, and hi-tech sales before realizing all her interests and experiences pointed her toward teaching social studies. Katherine Thrailkill at Summer 2024 MAHG. The course would prepare students for her fast-paced junior-level AP American History class.

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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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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.

History Education 52

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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.

History 52

History American History Social Studies Leadership 52

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. On the Wednesday following the A.P.

History 98

History American History Teaching K-12 98

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

We live in a time right now, in 2024, where things don’t have to make sense. Because everyone who studies fascism knows that fascists are always democratically elected to then destroy democracy. And of course, history and social studies teachers. Now none of this makes sense. The math doesn’t add up.

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