Teaching American History

DECEMBER 10, 2024

To celebrate Bill of Rights Day, we offer below a condensed version of the introduction to the Bill of Rights core document volume , available, as are all the document volumes, in the TAH bookstore. References to documents in parentheses are the documents in the Bill of Rights volume.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 15, 2025

For todays blog, we are highlighting a document that helps students intersect two of the most historically important elements of the 1960s: the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. Read the entire document, our scholarly introduction, and discussion questions here. December 6, 1963. National Archives.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 8, 2025

One-Day seminars are the easiest way to engage with Teaching American History in person. For a few hours, teachers can dive into the content of primary source documents through a discussion with colleagues facilitated by a scholar. The post Preparing for a One-Day Seminar appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Teaching American History is excited to announce the release of our latest core document volume, the second edition of Free Speech. Sample Documents Schenck v. The post Free Speech: Core Court Cases, Second Edition appeared first on Teaching American History. United States , 1919 Near v.

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Active History Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Important Documents Review – Let’s be real. Key documents can be tough for students to remember. The early American history version can be found here. US History Important Document Review 5. I LOVE this activity because if you listen closely, you can tell what you need to reteach!

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Teaching American History

MARCH 4, 2025

Discussion of primary documents. We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. Some of our topics include: The American Revolution at Old Fort Niagara in Niagara Falls, NY. appeared first on Teaching American History. A supportive and engaged group of educators.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

Discussion of primary documents. We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. During the seminar, the teachers discuss primary documents on the seminar topic with the guidance of a scholar, who acts as the seminar leader. appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Teaching American History provides various free resources for American history and government teachers, including our popular seminars , multi-day seminars , and extensive database of original source documents. Still, to paraphrase a famous campaign slogan from the 1990s, for TAH, it’s the documents, stupid!

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Active History Teacher

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Students are given an envelope full of terms (dates, battles, people, court cases, documents, etc.), I created done-for-you envelope races for Early American History and Modern American History. Envelope Races Lastly, my students also enjoy this envelope race classroom competition.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 22, 2025

The next day, he thoroughly enjoyed discussing primary documents with these new friends. In the next sessions we got to relate what we saw to what we read in the documents. The post TAH Multiday Prompts Discussion of Partisanship, Then and Now appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 29, 2025

The post Honoring the Life of Lincoln with His Last Speech appeared first on Teaching American History. The Biblical analogy fails, however, when one considers that the Southern prodigals did not acknowledge having betrayed the Union when they seceded.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Little’s study in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program prompted him to think carefully about how the Constitution’s structure reflects the founders’ understanding of typical human behavior, or what they called “human nature.” We thought self-government would work, but here we are.’

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Teaching American History

MARCH 19, 2024

Teaching American History’s Documents and Debates volumes present s American history as a series of topics. Below is a sampling of topics from Documents & Debates, v.2. Documents include Lincoln’s Second Inaugural , Douglass’ “ Reconstruction ,” and Tillman’s Speech in the Senate.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

If given only a textbook account of American government, they leave the course still unaware of what self-government requires. What happens when teachers ask students to read the primary documents of our founding carefully, constructing their own account of our system? These documents explain the framers’ thinking.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This inspired Lindblom to design an elective sophomore course on the same three periods, using many of the primary documents she’d studied in the TAH seminar. The course would prepare students for her fast-paced junior-level AP American History class. The game illuminated the primary documents Thrailkill read to prepare for it.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

If given only a textbook account of American government, they leave the course still unaware of what self-government requires. What happens when teachers ask students to read the primary documents of our founding carefully, constructing their own account of our system? These documents explain the framers’ thinking.

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Teaching American History

JUNE 4, 2024

The introduction that follows, and the words of Eisenhower, are from World War II: Core Documents , selected and introduced by Jennifer D. The post The 80th Anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944 appeared first on Teaching American History. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 1, 2025

The Changing Role and Status of Women Courting vs. Dating The post Parents, Flappers and Womens History Month appeared first on Teaching American History. Check out these materials from our digital atlas entry on World War I and the 1920s!

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 7, 2025

According to the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, he was in great demand to give visiting lectures at mathematical societies, colleges, and universities across the world. His own records document visits to 87 countries. Harary received many awards and honors for his work in mathematics, including six honorary degrees.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Joseph Postel l is Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College and a faculty member in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program at Ashland University. He also edited TAH’s core document collection, Congress (2020).

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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. Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 6, 2024

Staff and faculty members at Teaching American History have heard from our teacher partners that they want nonpartisan election resources that elevate classroom discourse beyond political bickering and horse race coverage. 2024 marks the 60 th time that Americans have gone to the polls to elect a new president.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

To be clear, this assignment would require students to analyze documents and write their own responses using evidence, which are important skills of course, but it would inevitably lead to me manically red inking papers that ultimately were written because I assigned an essay that would only ever be read by me. Who would read their work?

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 10, 2024

To celebrate Bill of Rights Day, we offer below a condensed version of the introduction to the Bill of Rights core document volume, available, as are all the document volumes, in the TAH bookstore. References to documents in parentheses are the documents in the Bill of Rights volume.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Brandt Robinson, a history teacher from Dunedin High School in Florida, described how, during the 2021-22 school year, a student in his African-American history class dropped out three days in. Robinson later found out that the student’s mother had enrolled him in the class to get a copy of the course syllabus.

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Teaching American History

JULY 2, 2024

Teaching American History emphasizes the use of primary documents. Why, then, is Teaching American History publishing a series of narrative histories? In case you didn’t know about the narrative histories, let me describe them, before I explain them.

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NCHE

JUNE 25, 2023

The social studies standards focused on African American history, recently approved by the Florida Board of Education, sanitize historical acts of violence against Black Americans. is one example of how the narrative of American slavery is misrepresented. Violence against Black people is, and was, wrong.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 8, 2024

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. Such a document is Charles Isum’s letter to W.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

“This is the one area left in the federal government, unfortunately, that is very much bipartisan,” she said of Native American issues. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. He spoke on a recent Thursday, after finding a spot of good cell phone service on his drive from a tribal elder’s home.

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Teaching American History

JUNE 18, 2024

And that means the pinnacle of TAH’s professional development for teachers has arrived as well: our Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program at Ashland University in Ashland, OH. The four questions cover a variety of topics, eras, or themes in American history and government.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In the next few days, those who have completed all coursework for the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program may begin writing their qualifying exams, so as to graduate with their degrees this December. Yet discussing these documents in the interactive online class sessions energized their teaching practice.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 27, 2024

Discussion of primary documents. We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. During the seminar, the teachers discuss primary documents on the seminar topic with the guidance of a scholar, who acts as the seminar leader. A supportive and engaged group of educators. Historic locations.

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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. As a teacher, he appreciated Teaching American History’s free seminars featuring scholar-led discussion of primary documents.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2018

But even back when every school taught civics and American history, very few students attained adult literacy. The need for better early childhood and elementary school interventions is well documented, but that does not imply giving up on adolescents.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

One-Day seminars are the easiest way to engage with Teaching American History in person. For a few hours, teachers can dive into the content of primary source documents through a discussion with colleagues facilitated by a scholar. The post Preparing for a One Day Seminar appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Amanda Bryan excepted today’s blog from our Core Documents volume, Political Parties , edited by Eric Sands. Political parties have a long and often convoluted history in American politics. The following documents tell the story of the changes of the party systems throughout American history.

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Teaching American History

MAY 14, 2024

The documents in this book address the three broad questions that are the most critical to understanding and evaluating Congress. The first question is the nature of representation in the American political system. Congress was once the great achievement of the American Constitution.

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