Teaching American History

MARCH 4, 2025

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. Native American Leadership, Identity, and Resistance at Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center in Mashantucket, CT. Have more questions?

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Active History Teacher

DECEMBER 22, 2022

I often use class competition games in my US History classroom – you could say it is part of my classroom culture. Here are a few classroom competition games I use with students – all of which are great for US History EOC Review and STAAR Review! Students race to put unrelated events in order in several mini-timelines.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. Teaching American History hosts Multi-Day seminars at no cost to American history and government teachers. For more information about our Multi-Day seminars and to see the schedule of events please click here. Click here.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

The black community would castigate this decision, especially after the old school was demolished, along with the auditorium that had housed community events, the trophy cases housing awards for Reids winning teams, and a brand new gymnasium that many had hoped to see converted into a town recreation center. 4 [October 1988], 387 444.))

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

NEW YORK — There’s a new look to history classes in New York City schools: a curriculum in Asian American and Pacific Islander history. It could also help resolve the internal conflicts that many Asian Americans experience when dealing with their sense of identity. KELLEN ZENG. Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island. “At

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Reid School, with all of the history it held, and all the community support it offered, was closed and torn down. After graduation, I returned to North Carolina, eventually starting a successful event planning business. Ellen Tucker, a longtime blog contributor for Teaching American History. The post Implementing Brown v.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

Background on Juneteenth Here are key points from scholars Greg Carr, Christopher Wilson, and Clint Smith on the history beyond the traditional textbook narrative about Juneteenth. African American History Monument by Ed Dwight, State Capitol Grounds, Columbia, South Carolina. Source: Alamy.In The Brown v.

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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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Teaching American History

JUNE 11, 2024

In preparation for the 2024 Alexander Lebenstein Teacher Education Institute in Richmond, VA, Amy Livingston is reading Doris Bergen’s War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust. Spanning five centuries of Latino experience in the US, the book will enrich her knowledge of American history as a whole.

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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

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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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. Malcolm X and Rosa Parks and the history of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement. Related: Slavery still shapes all of our lives, yet students aren’t taught its history.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2025

He also completed an APSA Oral History Interview in 1993, where he shares his experiences in the discipline of political science. Through the media and a series of user-friendly products, services and events, The HistoryMakers enlightens, entertains and educates the public, helping to refashion a more inclusive record of 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. Slavery is, and was, wrong.

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Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 9, 2019

Unfortunately, many of their names and personal stories are lost to history. Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich said, “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” ” How does this quote apply to the women involved in the American Revolution? How have these advancements changed American history?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

It was startling, Nia thought, how studying history could leave her feeling the same heaviness she’d felt scrolling social media after police had killed Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and Laquan McDonald, young Black people of her own generation. She pivoted, organizing a series of events to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the walkouts.

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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. history, she said, generally go like this: “White man did this, then died.”. Subscribe today!

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

The American Historical Association offers over one thousand Civil War newspaper editorials , for example. It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. We could find history games at Playing History or Flight to Freedom. government as well.

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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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Teaching American History

AUGUST 27, 2024

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. Teaching American History hosts Multi-Day seminars at no cost to American history and government teachers. For more information about our Multi-Day seminars and to see the schedule of events please click here. Click here.

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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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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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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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C3 Teachers

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

As I walk down my hallways, I gaze at my students’ Black History Month posters that cover the walls and I realize how I’ve changed since my early years. But as I walk by these images, I wonder how the fresh-faced teacher who promised to never “teach” Black History Month has now decorated the whole school with Black images.

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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. They examine the history of rock and roll and write their own rock anthems.

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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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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. Since its ratification, the U.S.

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2017

During my scholarly career, beginning with a college honors essay on preachers and theologians who celebrated English monarchy in the American colonies, I have highlighted the consensus that runs through our history. Back in the District of Columbia, African-American history gained two sites. The Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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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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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Life and Landscapes

JULY 25, 2024

Lee, the Mormon leader with a conflicted history. The beginning of the dinosaurs, and just before the great extinction event]. And now for John D. He was one of the earlier Mormon vigilantes, called “the Danites,” defending his people. But sluice mining operations there failed.

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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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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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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. Those ideas birthed what I would say is the greatest nation in human history.

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