Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

Ultimately, the perspective of Bob Moses — a Harvard-educated math teacher and organizer from Harlem (and the man most identified with Freedom Summer’s field operation) won out. Volunteers who came to Mississippi after the initial June wave often assisted the ongoing civic and practical education taking place in “Freedom Schools.”

American History 98

American History Archiving History Museum 98

ACRE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In the classroom, educators can explore a variety of Constitutional resources with learners by reading primary sources, reviewing changes to the Constitution throughout American History, and analyzing historical arguments relating to the founding of the United States and the Constitution today.

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Primary Sources Civics Archiving Government 52

4QM Teaching

APRIL 30, 2023

Sam Wineburg’s SHEG makes it sound as though “document analysis” were the primary purpose of social studies education. Generic accounts of thinking skills often treat document reading and analysis as the bread-and-butter of history teaching and learning. Now confess: you didn’t learn about the American Revolution that way.

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Primary Sources Artifacts Archiving Social Studies 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

For decades, fights over racist historical monuments and markers have swirled in and around America’s public education system. About 140 public school buildings are still named after Confederate leaders, according to a 2018 analysis by Education Week. The focal point was the city’s Board of Education building.

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Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies with the Kansas State Department of Education. In 2010, Nathan was named Kansas and National History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History. State Archives!! :

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Primary Sources Archiving Library American History 67

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

Despite the soaring price of tuition and the fact that most Americans strive to go to college, undergrads often spend little time studying compared to other activities. Instead, they’re working, socializing or partying and, as a result, show limited gains in critical thinking — the hallmark of American higher education.

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Humanities Critical Thinking History Cultures 95

ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

History,” Journal of American History 95:2 (September 2008); Michael L. Reading: Eleanor Harvey, “Introduction,” The Civil War in American Art , (Washington, D. Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2021); Lucretia Giese, “Winslow Homer’s Prisoners from the Front: an American History Painting?”

Museum 52

Museum American History Library History 52

ASHP CML

MARCH 3, 2025

The ASHP staff knows that such changes dont emerge overnight; as we look backward and ahead, we remain committed to making our work as history educators help generate greater understanding of the current historical moment. These stories are weaved together through the use of archival footage and nearly constant jazz music.

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Primary Sources Archiving American History Government 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

As a result, African-Americans made huge strides in education, entrepreneurship and political power. To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C.

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Teaching Primary Sources K-12 History 108

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

As part of our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle series , historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad joined educators Jesse Hagopian and T. One of the most striking things, if you’re an educator, is just to simply show the level of prosecutorial discretion afforded during the Trump administration. Hagopian: Incredible research you did on that.

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Primary Sources History Economics K-12 98

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. This was so enlightening. Thanks, T.

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