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What’s Your Summer Reading?

Teaching American History

Tina Boudell will read American Colossus by HW Brands, which chronicles the rapid industrialization of America in the latter half of the 19 th century and Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era , by Thomas Leonard. appeared first on Teaching American History.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. The American Historical Association offers over one thousand Civil War newspaper editorials , for example.

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Multiage classrooms put child development at the center

The Hechinger Report

Students do not cover American history from the beginning to the present day, he says, but instead “learn to think like a historian and to understand the social, economic and political drivers of any situation, so they know what the right questions are to ask about any period in history.”.

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Civics U: Immigration

Civics U

Immigration and immigration reform have been issues in past American history, and are still issues in American government and politics. This article will not enter that debate, but will review key elements in immigration history and law. Some of these also have a bearing on current issues and decisions.

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College Uncovered, Season 2, Episode 8

The Hechinger Report

Jon: Sarah Igo chairs the American History Department at Vanderbilt and is an intellectual historian. Sarah Igo: What that means is I study the history of ideas rather than, say, public policy or economic development or wars or that kind of thing. It’s definitely forward. Kirk: Intellectual historian?

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Lies We’re Told About Crime

Zinn Education Project

I think that’s the best way to start the conversation, because what it is predicated on is some agreed upon definition of a violation. They are killed for the crime of their economic success. The point is that a huge number of Black people, in that seminal moment, were innocent. Some were not.

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Can we teach our way out of political polarization?

The Hechinger Report

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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