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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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4 Arab American Scientists to Know

Studies Weekly

According to the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, he was in great demand to give visiting lectures at mathematical societies, colleges, and universities across the world. Soon after, he accepted a position as a mathematics instructor at the University of Michigan. His own records document visits to 87 countries.

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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. appeared first on ncheteach.org.

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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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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. National Archives, and maybe dig through the 5.3 million book images from the Internet Archive. .

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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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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. Clicking the Growth topic will take you to subjects with connections to primary sources. State Archives!! :