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

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

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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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

African American History Monument by Ed Dwight, State Capitol Grounds, Columbia, South Carolina. General Granger’s order was less directed toward offering news to the enslaved than it was about commanding lawless human traffickers and insurrectionists to obey the Proclamation issued two years earlier. Source: Alamy.In

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: By the close of this century, at least half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken today will become extinct – and that’s according to the rosiest of linguistic forecasts.

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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.” These included Epperson v.

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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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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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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. The sharing of stories is as human and fundamental as breathing itself. Despite our differences, stories are what keep our bond of humanity intact.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

The interest of the country is awakened and … the government responds.” Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. 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 find history games at Playing History or Flight to Freedom.

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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

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. The reading typifies Brennan’s creative approach to public service.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

At Teaching American History, we know teachers are hungry for resources that help their students understand the nuances of American civic behavior. For secondary and post-secondary government and political science educators, we are proud to recommend our CDC volume, Religious Liberty: Core Court Cases.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2024

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. appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 9, 2024

In any class that focuses on the Founding era in our MA in American History & Government program (MAHG) , you’re almost certainly going to discuss Federalist #1 and how often human history is shaped by “accident and force” instead of “reflection and choice.”

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Teaching American History

MARCH 19, 2024

Teaching American History’s Documents and Debates volumes present s American history as a series of topics. As the 1928 presidential race drew to a close, the Republican candidate, former Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover outlined the Republicans’ governing philosophy, which he credited with producing the prosperity.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The next school year, she was asked to teach not only the regular-level geography course but also AP Human Geography and World History. The next fall, Livingston took a job teaching civics and government at a public middle school. you will at least have a basic understanding of how constitutional government works.”

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Civics U

JULY 18, 2022

THE DRIVE FOR PROGRESS In American history early colonists’ and settlers’ desire and drive for progress was necessitated by the need to organize ways to survive, and fed by the opportunity to use the new territory that they took and occupied.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

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 Leave this field empty if you're human: Many colleges and universities are grappling with their historical connections to slavery. Weekly Update.

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Civics U

APRIL 21, 2022

Natural rights are rights that are considered to be universal human rights that are granted by nature or God, not granted by society or government and thus not to be revoked by society or government. They are an intrinsic part of human existence. They are not a privilege limited to certain individuals or groups.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 16, 2024

Many of the documents Schmeichel uses reflect American political theory, probing the interrelated ideas of liberty and equality. Those ideas birthed what I would say is the greatest nation in human history. When we engage with those ideas, we’re not diminishing what history is as a discipline; we’re elevating it.

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Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies with the Kansas State Department of Education. In 2010, Nathan was named Kansas and National History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 26, 2024

But Jefferson held that humans had more than just those three rights; in 1803, he was particularly worried about “the natural right we have always insisted on with Spain; to wit that of a nation holding the upper part of streams, having a right of innocent passage thro’ them to the ocean” ( Jefferson to Breckinridge, August 12, 1803 ).

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Rather than trumpeting the cause of self-government, Douglas’s doctrine of popular sovereignty was its death knell. Only adherence to the self-evident truth that all human beings were equal could save popular sovereignty—self-government—for all. He did so to fight Douglas on the ground that Douglas claimed as his own.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

Instead, they’re working, socializing or partying and, as a result, show limited gains in critical thinking — the hallmark of American higher education. You know, I’m an old timer, and I believe that there is value in, well, humanities, and a humanistic approach to teaching science. At least I would hope it isn’t.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

At the beginning of our unit on the WWII, I talked to the students about how the war, like many events in American history, impacted people in different ways and our goal was to see the war with new eyes through specific groups of people who lived it. I really enjoyed the book and wanted to share it with my students.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The largest student protests in American history were in May of 1970, following the Cambodian invasion and the tragic shootings of student protesters at Kent State and Jackson State. But also helps us understand how to ask questions about the course content that allows people to bring in who they are as human beings.

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Life and Landscapes

JANUARY 4, 2024

Places at peace, at least between humans. Are humans ever truly at ease? He governed along with Admiral Stockton. Few survived the European scourge of smallpox and encroachment on their living spaces. But I wonder how long they once lived in those beautiful mountains. But was that really true? That is the lure of the West to us.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

School leaders have solicited donations from local manufacturing plants, energy firms, even the federal government. Mattivi, whose eighth-grade English students discuss articles about the environment, civic life, and American history after using online literacy programs that provide similar material at different reading levels.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2021

This legitimacy crisis becomes even more acute when we consider it from the perspective of adolescents, whose chief experience of government authority has taken the form of a loutish brute whose contempt for republican institutions sends a powerful message that playing by the rules is for losers (and that only losers play by the rules).

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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. Constitution, we understood the truth and fought every way we could until our full humanity was recognized. Related: Donald Trump and the white achievement gap. Speaking truth to power is our legacy.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The Truth About How We Teach the Past The Florida Department of Education approved a rule that teachers may not define American history as something other than the creation of a new nation based largely on universal principles stated in the Declaration of Independence. government. government.

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