Let's Cultivate Greatness

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I can’t imagine teaching civics and government without political cartoons—they are essential to the subject. So here I’ve outlined some activity ideas for using them to help you teach five key government concepts. They make the best entry point for introducing concepts and diving deeper into diverse viewpoints on political issues.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Recently, the right-wing magazine The Federalist published a warning to parents in the form of a conspiratorial, unhinged and poorly supported op-ed titled, “ If The Left Ends Parent Rights, You Might Need A License To Raise Your Own Child.” government created these policies.

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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. Composite image of Abraham Lincoln (left) and Stephen A.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

The crowd cheered at the idea that people like them — mostly white, mostly male — were the true heroes of American history. Most Americans were appalled. High school social studies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Coming out of the end of slavery, Black people made their freedom dreams manifest in attempts to own property, to negotiate their own labor agreements, to build institutions, to take their role in governance, both in state legislative houses as well as in Congress. And I’m not even sure she actually was asked; it wasn’t a leading question.

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