Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Young citizens need civics education to understand their constitutionally guaranteed rights. The best civics teachers also help students learn the skills they need to protect their rights. They teach self-government as a cooperative activity. Civic engagement involves more than just showing up to vote. Peters agreed.

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Teaching American History

JULY 9, 2024

Sean Brennan Brennan, a frequent participant in Teaching American History seminars , has long promoted civic education and civil cooperation at the local and state level. He carried on this work while teaching government and an elective course in constitutional, civil and criminal law at Brecksville-Broadview High School.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.

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Civics U

APRIL 21, 2022

Natural rights are rights that are considered to be universal human rights that are granted by nature or God, not granted by society or government and thus not to be revoked by society or government. They are believed to be “inalienable” because they are not (to be) dependent on laws or customs of a particular culture or government.

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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. Government: PP.2.USG.2

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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. Nathan’s past students have created and led several civic and historical preservation projects. As you enter the site you won’t see much it is pretty bare bones.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The next fall, Livingston took a job teaching civics and government at a public middle school. He told her about the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) at Ashland University. When her middle school students asked, “Why do we need to learn about American government in the seventh grade?”

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Teaching American History

APRIL 16, 2024

We need such discussion if, as Federalist 1 puts it, we want a government based on reflection and choice rather than accident and force.” Students who compare the proslavery arguments to Lincoln’s arguments easily see that slavery violates the principles on which self-government depends.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

He sat down with Ellen Tucker to discuss how teachers can use the volume in their government or civics classrooms. If a teacher were to say to you, I’ve got time to use only two or three documents from your collection in my one-semester government class, which documents would you suggest the teacher select?

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Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 11, 2025

For example, teaching Nixon is a crucial aspect of American history due to his leadership, insights, and evolution of politics. Critical Thinking about Leadership and Accountability Nixons time in office allows students to think critically about leadership, ethics, and the concept of accountability in government.

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Our American History worksheets all can be downloaded as easy-to-use PDF files for easy printing and all include editable Google Docs versions which can be shared online with students through Google Classroom. Each curriculum includes hundreds of activities you can immediately implement into your classes!

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Many students enter high school government classes knowing very little about the way the American constitutional system really works. If given only a textbook account of American government, they leave the course still unaware of what self-government requires. Citizens must understand and support it.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Many students enter high school government classes knowing very little about the way the American constitutional system really works. If given only a textbook account of American government, they leave the course still unaware of what self-government requires. Citizens must understand and support it.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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. A careful reading of the Constitution reveals what American democracy “looks like structurally.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

secretaries of Education and funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is to “transform teaching of history and civics” in ways that (they hope) will diminish political polarization in this country. The Educating for American Democracy project offers no clear guidance on which path is the right one.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

School leaders have solicited donations from local manufacturing plants, energy firms, even the federal government. Mattivi, whose eighth-grade English students discuss articles about the environment, civic life, and American history after using online literacy programs that provide similar material at different reading levels.

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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. For Europeans, World War I was devastating.

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Students of History

JANUARY 6, 2022

The insurrection of January 6th, 2021 is something that will be taught in US History classrooms as long as American History is a part of high school. ” This must be discussed as part of your US History or American Government course.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

At Teaching American History, we know teachers are hungry for resources that help their students understand the nuances of American civic behavior. For secondary and post-secondary government and political science educators, we are proud to recommend our CDC volume, Religious Liberty: Core Court Cases.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

The interest of the country is awakened and … the government responds.” Volunteers who came to Mississippi after the initial June wave often assisted the ongoing civic and practical education taking place in “Freedom Schools.” The post 60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The Truth About How We Teach the Past The Florida Department of Education approved a rule that teachers may not define American history as something other than the creation of a new nation based largely on universal principles stated in the Declaration of Independence. government. government. for a students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2021

history, I have had a growing unease in recent years about the relevance of my vocation. Jim Cullen teaches history in the newly established upper division at Greenwich Country Day School in Connecticut. As a high school teacher of U.S. His forthcoming novel, Best Class You Never Had , will be published later this year.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 22, 2023

I served on the governing board of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for seven years. Two subjects where I felt confident as a reviewer, in addition to reading, were history and civics. Two subjects where I felt confident as a reviewer, in addition to reading, were history and civics.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

One hope is that rather than balkanizing into red state and blue state education policy agendas , that we can have sensible, civic-minded reforms that large majorities of people can support.” The study is based on survey responses from 3,905 U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The largest student protests in American history were in May of 1970, following the Cambodian invasion and the tragic shootings of student protesters at Kent State and Jackson State. Kirk: One idea picking up steam is to promote civic dialog in and out of the classroom. Kirk: That’s Raj Vannakota. They understand this.

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Diane Ravitch

JULY 4, 2024

In my school days, we learned only the positive spin on American history. As a college student and a graduate student and an adult, I learned about the dark side of our nation’s history. My mother was an immigrant from Bessarabia who would not tolerate a bad word against the country that took in her family.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

The crowd cheered at the idea that people like them — mostly white, mostly male — were the true heroes of American history. Most Americans were appalled. High school social studies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Samantha Palu, a high school government teacher in South Dakota, came to school on Jan. government and African American history in Hamilton, Ohio. government and African American history in right-leaning Hamilton, Ohio. Shari Conditt, a government teacher in Vancouver, Washington.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

and African American history. Americans have been arguing over what to teach children about U.S. history and civics since at least Reconstruction, the turbulent period that followed the Civil War. Related: OPINION — The wrong roadmap for teaching American history. Credit: Chris Tims.

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