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. Brett Van Gaasbeek, MAHG graduate and teacher at Cincinnati Northwest High School in Ohio. The fast-paced survey covers American history from Columbus to the present day.

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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. Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

You cannot attend public schools, visit the public library, eat in restaurants, enjoy public parks, go to churches or attend movie theaters. We must insist that the American History we teach in our schools includes discussions of the systemic racism that has defined and divided our country. You have no rights.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

In a lone building flanked by farmland, the Northern Cass School District is heading into year two of a three-year journey to abolish grade levels. By the fall of 2020, all Northern Cass students will plot their own academic courses to high school graduation, while sticking with same-age peers for things like gym class and field trips.

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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. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-113102. Of course, prayers continue in many public high schools, as the dissenting justices predicted they would.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

Cal students in the Doe Library at UC Berkeley. People with college degrees earn about $1 million more over their lifetimes than those with only high school diplomas, and are far more likely to have jobs they enjoy. There is a consumer protection strand of American history, and now it’s higher education’s turn.”.

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American History Government Advocacy High School 65

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

One day this spring, Victoria Trice’s high school students in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, peered through virtual reality headsets as part of a lesson on Afrofuturism. LOUISVILLE Just blocks from where hundreds of protestors gathered near the Ohio River waterfront after the death of Breonna Taylor in 2020 sits Central High School.

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History American History Teaching K-12 98

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Jenna Saykhamphone, a senior at Annandale High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, helped start an equity team at her high school to fight stereotypes both inside and outside her school in suburban Washington, D.C. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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History American History Ancestry Pedagogy 111

Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Elizabeth Eckford attempting to enter Little Rock School on September 4, 1957. Library of Congress. Two well-known black and white photographs depict the struggle to end racial segregation in Southern schools that continued after the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Library of Congress. Johnny Jenkins, United Press.

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Oral History Library History American History 105

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2018

history class this year, she described the American revolution and then expanded on the lesson, making connections to historical events in Mexico, Central America, the Dominican Republic and elsewhere in the Caribbean. Related: A Spanish-English high school proves learning in two languages can boost graduation rates.

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Cultures American History Tradition Lesson Plan 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

It was startling, Nia thought, how studying history could leave her feeling the same heaviness she’d felt scrolling social media after police had killed Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and Laquan McDonald, young Black people of her own generation. Credit: Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, PA.

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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. Prior to taking his current position Nathan taught middle and high school social studies for 24 years. So, you need to design a CBA? You have an idea, check.

Primary Sources 67

Primary Sources Archiving Library American History 67

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

Distribution of Delmont’s book is a direct challenge to the widespread removal of books from libraries and classrooms across the country. Courtney Bennis High School Social Studies Teacher, Virginia Beach, Virginia A huge “Thank you!” We’ll add more once teachers use the new paperback edition.

History Education 52

History Education History Education Social Studies 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

“There just were a number of issues that were bubbling because of the numerous reports that came out in the 80s about the inadequacies of public schools.”. A stack of Alabama history books at the University of Alabama McLure Education Library. Many are no longer used in Alabama schools. Credit: Rebecca Griesbach/AL.com.

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History K-12 Library Social Studies 104

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Two students share a computer as they prepare for their geometry final at Northridge High School, in Greeley, Colo. — Inside a high-ceilinged library at Northridge High School here, seniors are typing on 16-year-old laptops donated by a local Rotary Club. GREELEY, Colo. They have to learn early.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2021

Capitol last week, my instinctive response — before the despondency I felt at the desecration of American democracy, or the anger that would later have me shouting at my television set — was historical. Credit: Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images. As a high school teacher of U.S.

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History Civics American History Library 128

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

We share the text of their conversation for discussion in high school classrooms and professional development workshops. Wells-Barnett, is increasingly becoming a household name and being taught more commonly in high school, especially in Chicago, where I’m from. Muhammad: Yeah. So I’m hoping that Ida B.

Primary Sources 98

Primary Sources History Economics K-12 98

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Last spring, when the odds seemed far longer, Bob Cousineau, a social studies teacher at Pennridge High School, predicted that whatever happened in his embattled district would become a national “case study” one way or another. Bob Cousineau teaches social studies at Pennridge High School, in Pennsylvania.

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Education Policy Education Advocacy Social Studies 143

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2017

There were Somali, Iraqi, Burmese, Bhutanese, Ethiopian and Latin American teenagers — all learning English, math, history and science in an eleven-room, domed building. Many of the student arrivals, especially the older ones, struggled in the local high schools. But was GEO International the right response?

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 22, 2025

Kaley Duong, a recent high school graduate, on the Seattle Teach Truth history of 1919 walking tour. One of the best way to engage the community in defending the right to learn history is with a local history walking tour. Along the way, participants learn about history they wish they had learned in school.

History 52

History Teaching Historic Sites Museum 52

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

I got the chance to connect with high school students in my breakout room and it was a refreshing reminder that the Black Freedom Struggle is not only being taught despite truth-teaching being criminalized, but also it is being learned and put into practice! 21, 1939: African Americans Arrested for Going to Public Library Sept.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources History K-12 Economics 52

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Among them is Ayanna Mayes, a librarian who has spoken out about the books, particularly by Black and queer authors, purged from the shelves of the library she oversees at Chapin High School in Chapin, South Carolina. Ask school librarians who have lost their jobs for protecting the freedom to read.

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Library Education K-12 History 62

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Earlier this year, he signed a law barring libraries from banning books based on ideology; book bans nationwide have largely targeted LGTBQ+-themed books. Walz spent part of his early career teaching in small rural schools, including on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. —

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