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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

Some of those articles are written for mass-market publications, while others focus on specific topics and outlets ranging from nursing to Black culture to material artifacts. This writing tends to be engaging, brief, and pointed, relating history to current concerns, and spanning political perspectives.

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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We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross.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 could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University.

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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. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. My wife and I chose Aniefuna because in studying Black history, we learned that our land was never lost.

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Building Community through Inquiry

C3 Teachers

This workshop seeks to equip teachers with the tools, skills, and confidence necessary to engage students in community history through inquiry. This National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks in American History and Culture Workshop will bring 72 teachers from all over the country to Spartanburg, South Carolina in July 2022.

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2023 Schedule & Syllabus

ASHP CML

History,” Journal of American History 95:2 (September 2008); Michael L. Wilson, “Visual Culture: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis?,” in The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader , eds. Reading: Eleanor Harvey, “Introduction,” The Civil War in American Art , (Washington, D. Schwartz and Jeannene M.

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The Importance of Research in Social Studies Classrooms

Teaching American History

Czarnecki, a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, wrote the paper for a “Great Texts” course taught by Professor Stephen Tootle on John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress.

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Call for Applications: Penn State Special Collections Library Research Grants

Society for Classical Studies

Franklin African American History Research Award Thanks to a generous gift from Dr. V.P. Franklin, Penn State alumnus (‘69) and esteemed scholar of African American history, we are offering a new award this year This award is focused on supporting research in our growing Black History and Visual Culture collections.

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