Teaching American History

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In addition, seven states attached a prefatory declaration of rights to their frameworks of government: Virginia (June 1776), Delaware (September 1776), Pennsylvania (September 1776), Maryland (November 1776), North Carolina (December 1776), Massachusetts (March 1780), and New Hampshire (June 1784).

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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

APRIL 15, 2025

Our work, particularly in the South, has taught us that the United States government has never guaranteed the freedom of oppressed citizens, and is not yet truly determined to end the rule of terror and oppression within its own borders. Civil Rights and the War in Vietnam appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Without this, as well as with it, we could have declared our independence of Great Britain; but without it, we could not, I think, have secured our free government and consequent prosperity. The post Lincoln’s Fragment on the Constitution and Union appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 8, 2025

One-Day seminars are the easiest way to engage with Teaching American History in person. Courtney Reiner holds a Bachelor of Arts in Integrated Social Studies degree from Kent State University and a Masters of American History and Government degree from Ashland University.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“To be a good member of your community, you really have to understand why people do the things that they do,” says Bryan Little, who teaches both on-level Government and AP Government at McPherson High School in McPherson, Kansas. For Little, government class entails “constitutional study and human behavior study side by side.”

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Teaching American History is excited to announce the release of our latest core document volume, the second edition of Free Speech. Although “Congress” alone is mentioned, the First Amendment applies to any agent of the national government, including the president. Interested in bulk purchasing?

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 13, 2024

We were sad to learn last week that Mike Bisenius , a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program, has passed away after a brief, intense illness. Last fall we ran a story about Mike, who’d been named 2023 North Dakota History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Foundation.

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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. appeared first on Teaching American History. Free professional development. Have more questions?

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ASHP CML

APRIL 10, 2025

The notification letter asserted that each “grants immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government.” The claim that NEH’s work endangers the interests of the federal government contradicts abundant evidence of its many contributions.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 5, 2024

Anna Lenardson If you ask Anna Lenardson, a 2023 graduate of Ashland University’s Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program , why she enrolled in the challenging program, she replies, “I love to learn. I loved being with other teachers, talking about history and government.”

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This would be especially true in the case of unified government where loyalty to party might come to interfere with the system of checks and balances. Given these concerns, it is little wonder that the Founders did not want parties participating in American government.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

A Lesson from the Founders for Constitution Day Americans in our day think “transparency” in government essential to its efficient and wholesome operation. Postell studies American political institutions and their relationship to the modern administrative state.

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Teaching American History

MAY 21, 2024

This class will help students understand the complexities and nuances of a pivotal time in American history. Students will examine the writings of leading black intellectuals and activists about human equality, slavery, self-government, the rule of law, emancipation, colonization, and citizenship. MAHG is both!

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The course would prepare students for her fast-paced junior-level AP American History class. It would give them time to think about American principles while learning to read primary documents. She advises Mountain View’s Model UN team; students on the team take her AP Comparative Government class.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

At first, I started small, taking one unit from my American History class — “The Early Republic,” — and reflecting on why students truly needed to learn the content, how it’s relevant today and what kinds of assignments would provide opportunities for students to write for an audience that would motivate them.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

African American History Monument by Ed Dwight, State Capitol Grounds, Columbia, South Carolina. This drive and requirement for self-emancipation has been consistent through the story of Black American history. Source: Alamy.In The Brown v.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Czarnecki, a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, wrote the paper for a “Great Texts” course taught by Professor Stephen Tootle on John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. A careful reading of the Constitution reveals what American democracy “looks like structurally.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

The three countries share more than a common language: For several decades, their governments forcibly removed Indigenous children from their families and relocated them to distant boarding schools. Children there regularly encountered humiliating, and sometimes violent, treatment as a means to suppress their Native American identity.

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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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Teaching American History

AUGUST 6, 2024

Staff and faculty members at Teaching American History have heard from our teacher partners that they want nonpartisan election resources that elevate classroom discourse beyond political bickering and horse race coverage. 2024 marks the 60 th time that Americans have gone to the polls to elect a new president.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. A Good Civics Education Includes History When teachers, administrators and legislators talk about history education, we must consider it an exercise in civics.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In addition, seven states attached a prefatory declaration of rights to their frameworks of government: Virginia (June 1776), Delaware (September 1776), Pennsylvania (September 1776), Maryland (November 1776), North Carolina (December 1776), Massachusetts (March 1780), and New Hampshire (June 1784).

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

The interest of the country is awakened and … the government responds.” Malik Ali, a James Madison Fellow and 2017 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, is Tukman Distinguished Teacher of History at the Branson School in Ross, California.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2023

King understood that our rights are not given to us by the government, but are ours by the grace of God,” the governor said. This suppression of Black history is going to become a national thing if DeSantis and people who support him gain control of the federal government and the White House.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

He helped me during lunch with my history assignments, and he became interested in the role of immigration in American history. Alhassan Susso teaches government, economics and personal development at the International Community High School in New York City.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Without a doubt we would be living on Pinterest since it has dozens of pinboards – and tens of thousands of pins – related to history , including awesome resource sets from the Stanford History Education Group. We could find history games at Playing History or Flight to Freedom. government as well.

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Teaching American History

JUNE 18, 2024

And that means the pinnacle of TAH’s professional development for teachers has arrived as well: our Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program at Ashland University in Ashland, OH. The four questions cover a variety of topics, eras, or themes in American history and government.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Teaching American History provides various free resources for American history and government teachers, including our popular seminars , multi-day seminars , and extensive database of original source documents. Two Core Document Collections cover the entire scope of American history.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Many also found community online, by following Asian American educators publicly sharing their learnings and resources (e.g., after COVID-19.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In the next few days, those who have completed all coursework for the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program may begin writing their qualifying exams, so as to graduate with their degrees this December. The post MAHG Qualifying Exam Tips – Fall 2024 appeared first on Teaching American History.

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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. The post Applications Open Soon for Spring Multi Day Seminars appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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. They teach self-government as a cooperative activity. Peters agreed.

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Teaching American History

JULY 9, 2024

Sean Brennan Brennan, a frequent participant in Teaching American History seminars , has long promoted civic education and civil cooperation at the local and state level. He carried on this work while teaching government and an elective course in constitutional, civil and criminal law at Brecksville-Broadview High School.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

The evidence of American history is that in the absence of intentional policy choices we get more segregation – not less; we get more inequality – not less,” King said in a meeting curated by New Schools for New Orleans on July 2 during his visit to the Essence Festival.

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Teaching American History

MAY 14, 2024

Judging by its approval ratings over the past decade, Congress has lost the support of the American people. Once considered to be the great American contribution to constitutional government—being governed by our own consent through elected, representative lawmakers—Congress is now the most disliked part of our political system.

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