Let's Cultivate Greatness

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I can’t imagine teaching civics and government without political cartoons—they are essential to the subject. So here I’ve outlined some activity ideas for using them to help you teach five key government concepts. That’s why I also search for recent events that have involved the concept.

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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. Government: PP.2.USG.2

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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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Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 9, 2019

Does this sort of approach to government and daily life make a better settlement? 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? Explain your answer! Why or why not?

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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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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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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. They also said our government was two-faced: Talking about soldiers working together against the common enemy but having segregated quarters for the Black and white soldiers.

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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. government as well.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 16, 2024

We need such discussion if, as Federalist 1 puts it, we want a government based on reflection and choice rather than accident and force.” Students who compare the proslavery arguments to Lincoln’s arguments easily see that slavery violates the principles on which self-government depends. They remember much more.”

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Teaching American History

MAY 7, 2024

Recently I emailed a question to teacher friends who are graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program. How do you teach students about the challenge of preserving self-government?” The fast-paced survey covers American history from Columbus to the present day.

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Teaching American History

MAY 7, 2024

Recently I emailed a question to teacher friends who are graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program. How do you teach students about the challenge of preserving self-government?” The fast-paced survey covers American history from Columbus to the present day.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

We can plan events like we always had before. Sharahn Santana, African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. In the second year, you get a lot of time to do the governing. Ben Lawson , band and choir director at Redmond High School. Things are back to normal. The students are adjusting.

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Teaching American History

MAY 21, 2024

Instructor: John Moser (Ashland University) Course Materials: Syllabus , Course Packet , Game Book 610: American Foreign Policy (June 23 – 28) Students examine events and issues in the foreign policy of the American republic. Often these events are portrayed as inevitable and depicted in simplistic terms.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 30, 2024

The first Presidential inauguration in American history entailed careful planning, with much behind-the-scenes negotiation. As the first grand public event of the nation under its new Constitution, the inauguration had to strike just the right note. Vice President John Adams, in particular, irritated Maclay.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 31, 2024

It would lead the people of South Vietnam to rise in support of the North, the Army of South Vietnam to desert or defect, and the government of South Vietnam to collapse. In cities and villages, the Viet Cong assassinated government officials. Reports and images of the fighting shocked Americans.

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Students of History

JANUARY 6, 2022

The insurrection of January 6th, 2021 is something that will be taught in US History classrooms as long as American History is a part of high school. Of course, it can be difficult to maintain the right perspective when teaching events that are so recent. The embedded video is Jordan Klepper's piece from the Daily Show.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

In August, Michigan history teacher James Gorman watched televised images of torch-bearing white supremacists marching on the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and decided to use the incident to teach his students about similar events that happened in a divided United States 150 years ago. history and its legacy today.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2017

Jelani Cobb, the New Yorker columnist tweeted , “The biggest indictment of the way we teach American history is that people can look at #Charlottesviille and say ‘This is not who we are.’” In an Associated Press story , DeVos said Washington (aka the federal government) has a responsibility to “set a tone.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

I don’t think that it should end at the contextualization plaques,” said Makala McNeil, an African-American senior who attended the event. Earlier in the school year, a white student came to the office of the Black Student Union, a space it shares with the student government, and told her she had no right to be there. “It

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Keene at MAHG 2021 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. For Europeans, World War I was devastating.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. My coping mechanism to respond to some of the uncertainty in the larger system is appealing to government or quasi government agencies as well as personal physicians that can help me just know that I’m doing the right thing.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The first thing to recall about that election is that in 1800 the American people did something no people had done before. For almost a decade prior to this unprecedented event, Republicans and Federalists had waged a bitter partisan contest that split Americans into hostile factions and destroyed personal friendships.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2021

Events of the last year, heightened still further by those of the last week that are moving toward a second impeachment of President Donald Trump have me worried about what’s been termed a legitimacy crisis in our country, one that risks finally severing our confidence in the nation’s ideals. This seems hard to do.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

There are objective and subjective truths that we must uphold in spite of a federal government that disavows or ignores them. I’m encouraging you to put the events of 2020 into the context of our legacy. Related: Donald Trump and the white achievement gap. Speaking truth to power is our legacy.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2021

Shocked and upset, they wanted help thinking through how to approach the chaotic, violent events with their students. . In addition: Initial conversations should give students the space to process events. No one can quite agree on what to call the events that unfolded on Jan. Name what happened.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

” may be a way of sidestepping catastrophic thinking , a common feature of psychological anxiety in which people systematically and irrationally overstate the likelihood of a negative event. Related: President Elect Trump selects Betsy DeVos as new education secretary, ushering in a new era.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Samantha Palu, a high school government teacher in South Dakota, came to school on Jan. Capitol and other seismic events with their students. Parents, meanwhile, are increasingly pushing back when they hear of teachers discussing current events with students. government and African American history in Hamilton, Ohio.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

One of his Republican colleagues, Tom Cole of Oklahoma, asserted that the behavior of the assailants was “not the American way,” while another, Nancy Mace of South Carolina, said that it was “not who we are.” On CNN, commentator Van Jones said he thought events looked “more like Syria than the United States of America.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

The crowd cheered at the idea that people like them — mostly white, mostly male — were the true heroes of American history. Most Americans were appalled. High school social studies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

and African American history. Related: OPINION — The wrong roadmap for teaching American history. Kendi in a notice proposing that the chief federal grant program for history and civics education give priority to projects that incorporate diverse perspectives into teaching. Credit: Chris Tims. But Iowa state Rep.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Event Recording Recording of the full session, except for the breakout rooms. Coming out of the end of slavery, Black people made their freedom dreams manifest in attempts to own property, to negotiate their own labor agreements, to build institutions, to take their role in governance, both in state legislative houses as well as in Congress.

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