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The Bill of Rights

Teaching American History

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). Shermans view prevailed. Froehlich, John H.

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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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Cuts at the NEH

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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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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. Courtesy of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. Postell studies American political institutions and their relationship to the modern administrative state.

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Juneteenth: Teaching Outside the Textbook

Zinn Education Project

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 That’s another one of many examples. The Brown v.

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The Bill of Rights

Teaching American History

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). Shermans view prevailed. Froehlich, John H.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. We’d examine historical images of Native American life from the Museum of Photographic Arts, other historical photos from the U.K.