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Applications open March 10th for Fall Multi Day Seminars!

Teaching American History

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. The West in History and Memory at National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, OK.

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Prepare for Fall Multi Day seminars!

Teaching American History

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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Native communities want schools to teach Native languages. Now the White House is voicing support

The Hechinger Report

“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. It’s very empowering,” said Cummins, who previously ran Crow language programs in schools in Montana.

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College tuition breaks for Native students spread, but some tribes are left out

The Hechinger Report

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. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. Documentation depends on the information families can access to prove their lineage.

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Do You Want to Write for SAPIENS?

Sapiens

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 Importance of Research in Social Studies Classrooms

Teaching American History

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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States were adding lessons about Native American history. Then came the anti-CRT movement

The Hechinger Report

The anti-CRT efforts to restrict how race is taught have clashed with initiatives in several states, including South Dakota, Oklahoma and New Mexico, to teach Native American history — which has often been left out of instruction — more accurately and fully. And so they just don’t, so there is no Native history being taught.”