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. Kymberli Wregglesworth, a 2016 MAHG graduate, teaches Civics, World history and social studies electives at Onaway High School in Michigan.

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Teaching American History

JULY 9, 2024

Ohio House members from both sides of the aisle took turns reading the Declaration from its opening, “When in the course of human events,” through its closing pledge of “our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor,” along with the names of its signatories. The reading typifies Brennan’s creative approach to public service.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University. We could find history games at Playing History or Flight to Freedom.

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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 an intrinsic part of human existence.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

They also talked to APSA Educate about their passion for civic education, social justice, scholarly analysis, and interest in studying political science at the undergraduate level. Read her interview discussing her experience with civic education and civic engagement at the high school level here.

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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. Justice Kagan has argued eloquently for the importance of opposing official endorsements of religion in civic practices and memorials such as public architecture.

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C3 Teachers

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

This workshop seeks to equip teachers with the tools, skills, and confidence necessary to engage students in community history through inquiry. This National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks in American History and Culture Workshop will bring 72 teachers from all over the country to Spartanburg, South Carolina in July 2022.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The next school year, she was asked to teach not only the regular-level geography course but also AP Human Geography and World History. The next fall, Livingston took a job teaching civics and government at a public middle school. Now she wondered how to earn a teaching credential.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

She was director of exhibitions at the New York Public Library, and previously a senior content developer and interpretive planner in the New York office of the museum design firm Ralph Appelbaum Associates, where she worked on the development of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, along with other international projects.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

I've been very involved in the civic life of my community — I've been very involved in the nonprofit world and the political world — and when I thought about my voice as a photographer, I found myself drawn to topics that were of interest in the course of my civic life. I've been a civic activist my entire life.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 16, 2024

Many of the documents Schmeichel uses reflect American political theory, probing the interrelated ideas of liberty and equality. Those ideas birthed what I would say is the greatest nation in human history. When we engage with those ideas, we’re not diminishing what history is as a discipline; we’re elevating it.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As we have argued elsewhere , at the heart of the current efforts is deep-seated disagreement “over whether and to what extent racism is embedded in American history and institutions, how racism should be acknowledged and combatted, and who bears responsibility for ongoing racial discrimination and injustice.”.

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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. You can copy and paste your appropriate citation, see image insert.

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2021

history, I have had a growing unease in recent years about the relevance of my vocation. But the will to believe is a core human longing that expresses itself in multiple ways. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

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. I could never go back to the old model,” says Ms. But computers are expensive. We would love to have that problem.”.

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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. Donate to bring these lessons to more classrooms. for a students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Related: Rewrite the history textbooks, or the white supremacist violence will continue. Students must be held accountable for learning the truth about American history and racism in this country. Students must be held accountable for learning the truth about American history and racism in this country. Biden’s $1.9

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

A group of more than 300 historians and education experts published their answer — a “ Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy.” Requiring every school district to develop its own “Civic Learning Plan” would be both a bureaucratic nightmare and a recipe for educational disaster. Is American history education the problem?

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2025

With a curriculum that includes slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, two world wars and the Civil Rights Movement, American history teachers are used to venturing into emotionally charged subjects. These are people who went into the profession because they love our country, they love our history, they love our founding ideals.

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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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