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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

The American Historical Association offers over one thousand Civil War newspaper editorials , for example. It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. National Archives, and maybe dig through the 5.3 million book images from the Internet Archive. .

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Why Our Students Aren’t (and Can’t Be) Historians

4QM Teaching

And it’s true: if you’d like to earn a PhD in history and eventually land one of the handful of academic jobs available each year in that field, you’d be well advised to spend some serious time in an archive, or several of them. Now confess: you didn’t learn about the American Revolution that way. Plan it out.

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WWI and the 1920s: Interview with Jennifer Keene, Part 1

Teaching American History

Keene at MAHG 2021 Teaching American History has recently published World War I and the 1920s: Core Documents , a collection curated by Professor Jennifer D. Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University.