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Cuts at the NEH

ASHP CML

The NEH also has been integral throughout the history of the ASHP: with a grant in 1977, historians Herb Gutman and Steve Brier organized a series of seminars about Working Men and Women in American History for labor leaders and trade unionists.

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Carrying on ASHP’s Legacy

ASHP CML

In 1977, historians Herb Guttman and Steve Brier organized a series of seminars about “Working Men and Women in American History” for labor leaders and trade unionists. Throughout those years, ASHP has been dedicated to the work of recovering the experiences and contributions of ordinary people in U.S.

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Professional Development or Summer Camp for Teachers? MAHG is both!

Teaching American History

Fans of game-based learning or historical simulations will have two options during the first week of on-campus classes, as Progressive Era and Indian Assimilation, Resistance, and Removal are both using a Reacting to the Past game alongside our more standard method of seminar discussions. appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Teaching American History’s Narrative Histories

Teaching American History

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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Civil Conversation Protects Our Civil Rights

Teaching American History

Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. You have students from economically advantaged and disadvantaged families.

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South Dakota Teacher of the Year Sees Teaching as a Team Effort

Teaching American History

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. Moreover, any realistic account of history covers economic and financial factors. I wondered how we might do that in class.

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College Uncovered, Season 2, Episode 8

The Hechinger Report

Catherine Epstein: We have the papers of some relatively famous alums, and then we have lots of information just on the history of the college. Amherst enrolls about 1,900 students and offers more than 850 courses, many of them small seminars. Kirk: Epstein is dean of the faculty at the small liberal arts college. Archivist: Great.