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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

With Bunk teachers can know they are aware of current work on historical subjects and can share that with their students in efficient and engaging ways. Our other big project, New American History , under the direction of Annie Evans, addresses the time and confidence challenges in different ways.

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How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in three cities

The Hechinger Report

In Norfolk, Virginia, the juniors and seniors enrolled in an African American history class taught by Ed Allison were working on their capstone projects, using nearby Fort Monroe, the site where the first enslaved Africans landed in 1619, as a jumping off point to explore their family history.

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