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TAH Multiday Prompts Discussion of Partisanship, Then and Now

Teaching American History

Cade Lohrding teaches social studies for all three grades at Kiowa County Junior High School in Greensburg, Kansas. Kiowa County Junior High School in Greensburg, Kansas, provided a substitute teacher so that Lohrding could fly on a Friday into Burbank Airport in time for the seminars opening reception and dinner that night.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University. We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. We could play Fantasy Geography. And so on… . government as well.

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Project-based learning in Northwest Iowa

Dangerously Irrelevant

Student projects are quite varied and create student learning opportunities that may not occur in schools’ typical core curricula. 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.

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Amy Livingston’s Unexpected Vocation: Teaching America’s Story

Teaching American History

Amy Livingston, Chancellor High School, Fredericksburg, VA. Grade school had bewildered her. School administrators and teachers never picked up on Livingston’s hearing problem, and she remained in special ed until she graduated from high school. She found interesting geography lessons online.

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Apply Now for NEH Summer Institutes 2024

Zinn Education Project

Understanding Puerto Rican Migration and Community Building Through the Arts and Humanities Location : New York, NY Date : July 14 — July 27, 2024 Freedom Summer: 60 Years Later — A Landmarks Of American History Teacher Workshop Location : Jackson, MS (available virtually) Date : July 8 — 12, and July 22 — 26, 2024 Heart Mountain, Wyoming and the Japanese (..)

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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. Peters agreed. Civic engagement involves more than just showing up to vote.

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Challenging Anti-History Education Laws: Teachers Receive 14,000 Books on African Americans During WWII

Zinn Education Project

High school history teacher Amanda Sandoval was one of hundreds of educators who received copies of Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad from the author Matthew Delmont and the Zinn Education Project.