Teaching American History

JULY 9, 2024

Ohio House members from both sides of the aisle took turns reading the Declaration from its opening, “When in the course of human events,” through its closing pledge of “our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor,” along with the names of its signatories. These events typify Brennan’s creative approach to public service.

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Active History Teacher

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Timeline Races One of my absolute favorite classroom competitions for US History is timeline races. Students race to put unrelated events in order in several mini-timelines. I created done-for-you envelope races for Early American History and Modern American History. This activity is made for competition!

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Heinemann Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We created the resource Short Nonfiction for American History: The American Revolution and Constitution because historical events are full of controversies, mysteries, and dramas that engage and excite students of all ages.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

African American History Monument by Ed Dwight, State Capitol Grounds, Columbia, South Carolina. While enslaved Black people in far off places like Texas were often kept in the dark and fed a pro-slavery narrative of the events of the war and the nation, whether they received word of the order wasn’t so much the point.

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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. I then annotate in the margin things about which I may have a question or jot down something that is connected to another reading or to another historical event or concept.” Plan your drive and possibly stay the night.

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Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

Little wonder that Dunn’s course in this year’s summer residential Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, “From Courthouse to Schoolhouse,” drew teachers from urban and rural areas across the country. West, “The Supreme Court as School Board Revisited.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Originally designed as an academic conference to share research, the event brought together Florida K-12 and college teachers and students, national journalists and professionals from libraries and museums whose work focuses on history and civics. One of Robinson’s fellow panelists at the conference, Hayley McCulloch, a U.S.

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Teaching American History

JUNE 11, 2024

Barnette-Miller, who now teaches a college course on West Virginia history, will also read Daydreams and Nightmares: A Virginia Family Faces Secession and War by Brent Tarter, which tells the story of George Berlin, delegate to the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861 (which triggered the events leading to West Virginia statehood).

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

After desegregation, parents in the community, like many across the South, began organizing private, off-site proms to keep the events exclusively white. The next year, the school made it official, finally holding an integrated event. But the A.P. course, an elective, became ensnared in politics.

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C3 Teachers

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Almost ten years ago, I started off teaching and I truly believed that I didn’t need to teach Black History Month or any other cultural month (Hispanic Heritage, Native American History Month, etc.) Now, using inquiry, I celebrate each and every cultural heritage month, including Black History Month.

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C3 Teachers

JULY 1, 2024

If you are having students read a secondary source detailing the events that led Europe into global war in 1914, have them create a timeline of these events in a detailed way so that they understand the sequence of events. What kinds of tasks are the sources asking the reader/viewer to participate in? Let’s be more specific.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 16, 2024

Rather than offering a series of precedents or important historical events, the documents offer opportunities for close study and will reward the instructor who can find the time for extended discussion. The American Presidency is available for free download from our bookstore. Get your copy today!

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Roosevelt and Winston Churchill Any serious student of history will tell you that pinning down the precise origins of great events is difficult at best, but one can often find important moments that offer a glimpse into their long-term origins. From left to right: Joseph Stalin, Franklin D.

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C3 Teachers

JULY 1, 2024

If you are having students read a secondary source detailing the events that led Europe into global war in 1914, have them create a timeline of these events in a detailed way so that they understand the sequence of events. What kinds of tasks are the sources asking the reader/viewer to participate in? Let’s be more specific.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Coincidentally they are all coming out of my History Department. Here is a quick rundown: On Thursday, October 21, I observed Nicolette Perna’s American History 1 class where the lesson focused on the major patriots during the Revolutionary War. On a side note, Ms.

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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 Government: PP.2.USG.2

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Principles of the Constitution After introducing the different principles of the US Constitution , I have my students identify them in political cartoons depicting events that relate to each. That’s why I also search for recent events that have involved the concept. Or a cartoon dealing with Election Day for popular sovereignty.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. They are advocating for core curriculum changes in social studies — specifically American history — classes.

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

While they're sometimes belittled, worksheets are an excellent tool for helping students analyze primary sources or better understand a historical event through a secondary source. Each US History unit also include thorough 9-page worksheets packets for every unit in the curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For many of today’s students, the new program’s ideas and approaches to rethinking history and how it is taught are not radical. This generation is hyper-aware of the way that history has been framed — what is included and what is left out. Decades later it became an independent nation. Kong will be a junior taking U.S.

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Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 9, 2019

The first camera was invented many years after the conclusion of the American Revolution. How might photographs have changed our understanding of the people, places, and events of the American Revolution? How do you think American history would have changed if President Washington refused to give up the power of the presidency?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The group connects Muslim home-schoolers in Southern California by hosting events and providing resources, such as books and curriculum. It’s also easier to participate in events on the seasonal Indigenous calendar, like the annual buffalo harvest or sacred site visits, that previously would have meant pulling the children from school.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

Half American chronicles the lives of African Americans who fought in World War II and in the war against racism in the United States. Typical textbook curriculum teaches the Civil Right Movement as an isolated event; however, Delmont’s book taught me that the movement’s roots are with injustices and hypocrisies during World War II.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2020

It probably means you’re not regularly talking with them about current events and they’re not getting a good education about American history in school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2018

history class this year, she described the American revolution and then expanded on the lesson, making connections to historical events in Mexico, Central America, the Dominican Republic and elsewhere in the Caribbean. When Eleni Saridis taught the founding era in her U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

Helen Gym, a Korean American City Council member, had tried to leverage the aftermath of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 to get the city to take the Rizzo statue down. She pivoted, organizing a series of events to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the walkouts. But she ran into vocal opposition.

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Life and Landscapes

JULY 25, 2024

The beginning of the dinosaurs, and just before the great extinction event]. Lee’s Ferry also became a point of access to the gold fines found in the soft Chinle Rock Formation of Upper Triassic origin [more than 200 million years ago. But sluice mining operations there failed.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2017

In 2007, to mark the 400th anniversary of the first English colony at Jamestown, Virginia, the Park Service opened a Visitor Center presenting Jamestown as a place of meeting between Native American, English and African cultures. Back in the District of Columbia, African-American history gained two sites.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It might depend on whether or not what you’re writing about is tied to a specific news event. Whereas I worked for many decades now with Native American communities in the U.S. If it is accepted the editor will typically ask for the first draft within about 4 weeks. No actual expertise in that area. south west.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 16, 2024

Schmeichel finds the well-curated primary documents he needs for his teaching in Teaching American History’s Core Document volumes , which excerpt key documents of American history, preface them with a scholar’s summary of their historical context, and suggest questions for discussion. They remember much more.”

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Future of History

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Here’s how Sarah Cooper taught her 8th grade social studies class today, as the nation went about determining a presidential winner. Unlike the day after the 2016 election, “I’m feeling not so much shock as the need to shore up my teaching and once again dig into difficult topics.” The post The Day After: How Do We Teach Now?

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 30, 2023

More than 10,000 teachers signed up to access people’s history lessons in 2023 , bringing our full registration at the Zinn Education Project to more than 160,000 teachers from every state in the country!

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

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.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

This is particularly true for learning our history. To understand America today requires examining the major events in our past that define our national character (for good or for ill). Is American history education the problem? Related: Can patriotism and criticism coexist in social studies? citizenship exam.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

For example, at Spirit Lake High School , students learn about Yamazumi charts, Kaizen events, elemental spaghetti diagrams, and other lean engineering techniques with Polaris, the local snowmobile manufacturer. Student projects are quite varied and create student learning opportunities that may not occur in schools’ typical core curricula.

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