Zinn Education Project

JULY 24, 2024

Jarvis Givens is a professor of education and faculty affiliate in the department of African & African American studies at Harvard University. As an interdisciplinary scholar, he specializes in 19th and 20th century African American history, history of education, and theories of race and power in education.

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Pedagogy Archiving American History History 92

NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

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.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

Courtesy of Civil Rights Movement Archive, [link] The best known of these “freedom facets” is also the most immediately politically consequential one: the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). Malik Ali teaching. The post 60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer appeared first on Teaching American History.

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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. Image from iCivics Race to Ratify game.

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4QM Teaching

APRIL 30, 2023

In other words, we teach our students that one of the four essential questions in our field — “What were they thinking?” Generic accounts of thinking skills often treat document reading and analysis as the bread-and-butter of history teaching and learning. Plan it out. So, reading primary sources is great.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

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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Archiving Museum History Primary Sources 140

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

Maitland Jones lost his job teaching organic chemistry at New York University after students signed a petition saying his course was too hard. You know, I’m an old timer, and I believe that there is value in, well, humanities, and a humanistic approach to teaching science. Kirk: Nicola Courtright teaches art history at Amherst.

Humanities 93

Humanities Critical Thinking History Cultures 93

Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

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.

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Archiving American History Library History 91

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?”

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Museum American History Library History 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

In August, Michigan history teacher James Gorman watched televised images of torch-bearing white supremacists marching on the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and decided to use the incident to teach his students about similar events that happened in a divided United States 150 years ago. history when black lives mattered.”.

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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. Well, it’s an origin story, and the good thing about this — for teaching purposes, from a pedagogical standpoint — is sometimes these ideas about defined crime live up here.

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Primary Sources History Economics K-12 98

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

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 session was the latest in our monthly Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online class series.

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