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Prepare for Fall Multi Day seminars!

Teaching American History

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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Secrecy Encourages Careful Deliberation

Teaching American History

A Lesson from the Founders for Constitution Day Americans in our day think “transparency” in government essential to its efficient and wholesome operation. Library of Congress. Courtesy of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. The delegates to the Constitutional Convention did not entirely agree. 5, 1858 Feb.

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Juneteenth: Teaching Outside the Textbook

Zinn Education Project

Source: Library of Congress Juneteenth — June 19th, also known as Emancipation Day — is one of the commemorations of people seizing their freedom in the United States. African American History Monument by Ed Dwight, State Capitol Grounds, Columbia, South Carolina. Dancer at Juneteenth celebration in Washington, D.C. The Brown v.

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Joshua Dunn, Teachers Discuss Judiciary’s Involvement in Education

Teaching American History

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.” Pico (1982).

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The Sand Creek Massacre

Teaching American History

Courtesy of Denver Public Library. Most of Colorado’s white settlers and their leaders did not understand tribal government. Plains Indian Tribes such as the Cheyenne and Arapaho were not united under a governing alliance. Ray Tyler The post The Sand Creek Massacre appeared first on Teaching American History.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics.

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Lincoln’s Fragment on the Constitution and Union

Teaching American History

c1903 from photo taken on May 16, 1861) Library of Congress. 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. Abraham Lincoln. Brady’s National Photographic Portrait Galleries.

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