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.” suggested the demographic categories in which they fit. Senator Robert C.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 7, 2025

He received an extensive education in New Orleans through the 1930s and earned a master’s degree and an MD. He received a theoretical physics and applied mathematics education at Brooklyn College, Princeton University, and New York University. His own records document visits to 87 countries. DeBakey (19082008) Michael E.

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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

While earning her Masters in secondary school education at Arizona State University, she’d observed Lindblom’s class. 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 request surprised and flattered Thrailkill.

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Eventually, and unexpectedly, the school board voted to keep him on as superintendent. “A

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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NCHE

JUNE 25, 2023

The National Council for History Education stands in support of history teachers in Florida. 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.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 27, 2024

Discussion of primary documents. A supportive and engaged group of educators. 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. Click here.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2018

Despite the claims of those who propose to “disrupt” education with video lessons and a well-intentioned emphasis on STEM, reading remains the backbone of a real education. Related: Can literacy coaches help solve Mississippi’s education woes? Higher Education. Photo: Jackie Mader. We live in the Information Age.

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Teaching American History

JULY 9, 2024

On Independence Day, we watched a “ bipartisan reading of the Declaration of Independence ” organized by legislator and educator Sean Brennan , representative to Ohio’s House of Representatives for District 14. 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

JULY 18, 2023

Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. There are “so many people that are stuck in poverty and stuck in situations where they can’t get an education,” Hall said. “I That’s because the U.S.

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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. These are free to attend for all social studies teachers and can be in historical locations, school districts, and educational service centers. The post Preparing for a One Day Seminar appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Young citizens need civics education to understand their constitutionally guaranteed rights. We engage with our students as equals with us in devotion to the truth and to understanding the documents we study as their authors understood them. Primary documents offer starting points for civil conversation. “I

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross.

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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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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. This makes them easy to differentiate for special education students with accommodations.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

George Hawkins , a 2019 graduate of TAH’s Master of Arts with a Specialization in Teaching American History and Government (MASTAHG) program , was named South Dakota Teacher of the Year in October. Such cases were even more “soul-sapping” than the rigidities of the traditional education system. and ‘What do I think about it?’—that

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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. Constitution PD.4.C.3

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By the next day, Livingston had been reassigned to a special education class. A Path to Education Opens Fortunately, Livingston next enrolled in the local community college, where she discovered a well-developed program for students with hearing disabilities. She had taken no education courses. This was December.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Higher Education. based, actively working to address issues of race and inequality on college campuses and “the complicated legacies of slavery in modern American society.”. The school renamed a campus building Isaac Hawkins Hall after the first slave listed in the sale document. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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4QM Teaching

APRIL 30, 2023

THE ERROR BEHIND “DOCUMENT ANALYSIS” The fact is, even people who should really know better often make the same mistake. Sam Wineburg’s SHEG makes it sound as though “document analysis” were the primary purpose of social studies education. Now confess: you didn’t learn about the American Revolution that way. Plan it out.

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Civics U

APRIL 21, 2022

The idea of natural law and natural rights appeared in ancient Greek philosophy and was addressed by philosophers in various periods of Western history. The important thing about natural rights is that they belong to every individual regardless of identity or status. They are not a privilege limited to certain individuals or groups.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 16, 2024

Primary documents give us unexpected perspectives on history. Landen Schmeichel sees this often when using documents in his Advanced Placement US History course at Legacy High School in Bismarck, North Dakota. Liberty and Equality: Ideas That Shaped America Primary documents prompt reflection on powerful ideas.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

Tilsen-Brave Heart worried that her 5-year-old daughter, Pia, would be exposed to even fewer lessons taught through a cultural lens than her older siblings had been, robbing her of an educational experience that would foster a sense of belonging and self-identity. “I I want my children to know who they are,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart. “I

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In Norfolk, Virginia, the juniors and seniors enrolled in an African American history class taught by Ed Allison were working on their capstone projects, using nearby Fort Monroe, the site where the first enslaved Africans landed in 1619, as a jumping off point to explore their family history. course targeted by Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

At the meeting, reading a prepared speech from her cell phone, Saykhamphone shared the cotton gin story and told board members that “for me to truly appreciate American history and my Black and Asian history, standards should not be watered down.” Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Board of Education decision. Board of Education case that racial segregation in education and “separate but equal” were unconstitutional, Elizabeth Eckford and her peers enrolled in the all-white Central High School. Children determined to receive a good education meet with anger and the menace of violence. Poston, Ted.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

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? Liebmann (Document 31). I would consider assigning the Kestnbaum Commission Report from the 1950s (Document 34).

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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. In 2010, Nathan was named Kansas and National History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History. My goal, for this blog post is twofold.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Several weeks ago, for example, staff offices at Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Inclusion, Diversity Education and Advocacy in Boca Raton were vacant, with name plates blank and abandoned desks, plus LGBTQ+ flags, posters and pamphlets left behind. There is also mounting resistance to the laws.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Whereas I worked for many decades now with Native American communities in the U.S. So, if I was going to make, develop an op-ed around Native American history and culture I’ve written books, received grants and so on, I’m well prepared to make that argument. No actual expertise in that area. south west.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2017

Behind our common narrative lies a set of commitments —commitments to values like freedom, but also to symbols, monuments, images, places, holidays, songs and documents—that amount to a religion. American civil religion has united rich and poor, native and invader, ruler and rebel. To speak of a “creed” evokes religion.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

He studied briefly at Wilberforce University and in 1937 moved to New York City, where he furthered his education at City College of New York. This document is excerpted from our CDC volume Race and Civil Rights , which contains classroom-ready primary sources, introductory essays and discussion questions. In 1941 he accepted A.

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ASHP CML

MARCH 3, 2025

The ASHP staff knows that such changes dont emerge overnight; as we look backward and ahead, we remain committed to making our work as history educators help generate greater understanding of the current historical moment. This week, administrator and multimedia producer David Scheckel shares a primary source.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Department of Education cracking down on universities it says have failed to report receiving money from abroad. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said was about transparency. “If Here’s how much and to whom: Federal budget documents show that 3,259 grants worth $284.4 The Education Department said Harvard, Yale and other U.S.

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