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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

After Jessica Ellison invited me to participate in a conversation about how academic historians might be of use to K-12 teachers, I did a little research: I asked teachers at our state social studies council what they most needed for their work. New American History, like Bunk, embraces as many people, places, and perspectives as possible.

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The Importance of Research in Social Studies Classrooms

Teaching American History

To give students insight into the work of historians, Czarnecki assigns research projects in all of the courses she teaches at Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, Kansas. She also pursues her own research. 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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Cuts at the NEH

ASHP CML

.” In keeping with that belief, for sixty years the NEH has served as a vital source of support for the work of humanities organizations, educators and scholars who believe that our world is improved through research and publicly accessible programs that promote a deeper understanding of literature, history, and ideas.

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4 Arab American Scientists to Know

Studies Weekly

During his doctoral research in 1955, Maassab sat in the back of an auditorium as his professor announced Jonas Salk’s successful creation of the Polio vaccine. Maassab’s colleague, Rashid Bashshur, recalls this as the moment Maassab dedicated his life’s research to developing a safe and effective vaccine for influenza.

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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We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross.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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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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Constitution Day Resources

ACRE

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. Since its ratification, the U.S.