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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

Teachers can share any entry, or collection of entries, from Bunk with students, who can also explore the evolving archives for themselves. Our other big project, New American History , under the direction of Annie Evans, addresses the time and confidence challenges in different ways.

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How the Electoral College Works—And Why It Exists

Teaching American History

Both documents are then sealed up and sent to the National Archive. The post How the Electoral College Works—And Why It Exists appeared first on Teaching American History. All the electors sign the Certificate of Vote, which is then attached to an original of the state’s Certificate of Ascertainment.

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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

The following year, she took African American history, a required course in Philadelphia schools that is an enduring legacy of the 1967 walkouts. It sounds weird, a 17-year old girl going to the archives with her friends for fun. At Temple University’s Urban Archives, the girls combed through boxes of old news clippings.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. We’d examine historical images of Native American life from the Museum of Photographic Arts, other historical photos from the U.K.

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How does an NCHE Colloquium come together?

NCHE

Since 2017, NCHE has offered professional learning colloquia that focus on “Technology’s Impact in American History (TIAH).” Francis has spent years translating Spanish records and uploading them to a remarkable website entitled La Florida: The Interactive Digital Archive of the Americas.

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

I started learning about the diaspora through books and archives when I attended a historically Black university (HBCU) for graduate school. 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.

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Classroom Based Assessments – Where to start

Doing Social Studies

These include three pieces of Kansas Legislation, a Civil War mural, a Civil War Veterans Kansas preservation project, many National History Day projects, and four award-winning Lowell Milken for Unsung Heroes projects. State Archives!! : Let me say that again, State Archives!! Access to state archives is extremely useful.