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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We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross.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.

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Can we teach our way out of political polarization?

The Hechinger Report

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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