The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable? Now, a new annual report about attitudes toward Asian Americans from the advocacy organization LAAUNCH has provided some disturbing answers to some of these questions. Several findings in the report have direct implications for Asian American safety.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

While the College Board’s failure to stand firm in offering a representative and inclusive African American studies course is disheartening, we shouldn’t be surprised. Similar sanitization runs rampant in its AP American history course. Overnight the Cotton South’s historic need for cheap labor disappeared.”

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Before touring History Colorado Center’s exhibit, The Sand Creek Massacre: The Betrayal That Changed Cheyenne and Arapaho People Forever , in Denver this summer, I had never heard of Silas Soule. Ray Tyler The post The Sand Creek Massacre appeared first on Teaching American History. Morrow disappeared forever.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

citizenship test, which assesses basic knowledge of American history, according to new survey results released earlier this month by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. A quarter of Americans were unaware that the First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech. This is an issue of how we teach American history.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2024

“I appreciate that my teachers try to offer different narratives,” a student said at one of our sessions discussing teaching materials featuring history and stories from all continents, “but they always seem to be about hardship or having to overcome an obstacle. We are never just the average main character.”

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

As part of an ongoing series examining Contributions of Scholars of Color , the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Department conducted a a second set of oral history interviews during the 2024 National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) Annual Meeting held in Los Angeles, California. Watch the full interview series on YouTube.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The post How the Electoral College Works—And Why It Exists appeared first on Teaching American History. Check out this related blog: A Conversation with John Dinan, Editor of our core document collection, Federalism.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The post Lincoln’s Fragment on the Constitution and Union appeared first on Teaching American History. That we may so act, we must study, and understand the points of danger. Check out our Apple of Gold Poster in the bookstore.

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Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Hundreds of PreK-12 teaching and learning resources that support developmentally appropriate skill-building and leverage both well-known and lesser-known stories in American history are freely available online for use in the classroom and at home

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Coincidentally they are all coming out of my History Department. Here is a quick rundown: On Thursday, October 21, I observed Nicolette Perna’s American History 1 class where the lesson focused on the major patriots during the Revolutionary War. On a side note, Ms.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. My desire to know exploded.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 17, 2024

For the past year, Teaching American Historys webinars have been about the presidential election. We spent this fall diving into the rhetorical traditions of American politics. So lets take a step back and look back at an entirely different aspect of US history. Last spring, we broke down the presidential election cycle.

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Active History Teacher

DECEMBER 22, 2022

I often use class competition games in my US History classroom – you could say it is part of my classroom culture. Here are a few classroom competition games I use with students – all of which are great for US History EOC Review and STAAR Review! I have done-for-you timeline races for early US History and Modern US History.

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Active History Teacher

JULY 9, 2021

In my US History classroom, I am constantly evaluating what works best in terms of the age-old question, “Did they get it?” I love watching students make connections as they sort primary sources , vocabulary and key people in US History. Check out the version for early American History and Modern American History.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 4, 2025

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. Some of our topics include: The American Revolution at Old Fort Niagara in Niagara Falls, NY. Native American Leadership, Identity, and Resistance at Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center in Mashantucket, CT. Have more questions?

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

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. What more could you ask for?

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Rockin Resources - Social Studies

JANUARY 2, 2023

A lot has happened in our American History! That is why I’m breaking down the best (and easiest) way to teach American History! The post The Best (and Easiest) Way to Teach American History appeared first on Rockin Resources. There’s so much to cover in each era!

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2023

Ron DeSantis or the College Board to curate and disburse Black history to us. As despicable and harmful as the Florida governor’s recent rejection of the pilot Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies course was, DeSantis does not get to decide when and how we learn Black history. DeSantis’ playbook is plagiarized.

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Active History Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The early American history version can be found here. US History Important Document Review 5. Join The Active History Teacher Community! The post Top 8 Ways to Remediate in Social Studies appeared first on Active History Teacher. Key documents can be tough for students to remember.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 17, 2011

This is why I was so pleased to learn about what two of my dynamic history teachers were doing in their classes. Millan’s American History II classes were asked to conduct interviews with people that they believe to be modern day “progressives”, or reformers. Image credit: [link] For a recent assignment, students in Ms.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Teaching American History is excited to announce the release of our latest core document volume, the second edition of Free Speech. The incorporation doctrine authorized the Supreme Court for the first time in its history to review state laws that potentially infringed upon the First Amendment. Interested in bulk purchasing?

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Active History Teacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

For early American History: Jamestown , The 1st Great Awakening , Louisiana Purchase , War of 1812 , Manifest Destiny/US Mexican War , Civil War Battles , For the second half of US History: Spanish American War , Origins of the Cold War. Join The Active History Teacher Community! Kids love them!

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Little’s study in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program prompted him to think carefully about how the Constitution’s structure reflects the founders’ understanding of typical human behavior, or what they called “human nature.” Professor Joseph Postell told the history of our political party system.

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Grant was then able to steam down the Tennessee River with his army and into history. Union gunboats were now free to move on toward Nashville, which General Johnston, withdrawing from Kentucky, then abandoned. Grant would meet, and ultimately defeat, Johnston’s troops at the bloody Battle of Pittsburg Landing. You know it as Shiloh.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 13, 2024

We were sad to learn last week that Mike Bisenius , a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program, has passed away after a brief, intense illness. Last fall we ran a story about Mike, who’d been named 2023 North Dakota History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Foundation.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

NEW YORK — There’s a new look to history classes in New York City schools: a curriculum in Asian American and Pacific Islander history. It could also help resolve the internal conflicts that many Asian Americans experience when dealing with their sense of identity. KELLEN ZENG. Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island. “At

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform. So many people are unable to conceptualize a full picture of Black history until adulthood.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Reid School, with all of the history it held, and all the community support it offered, was closed and torn down. Ellen Tucker, a longtime blog contributor for Teaching American History. Board of Education: One Southern Town’s Story; Part 2 appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

Ellen Tucker, long time blog contributor for Teaching American History [1] But not as proactive as some. 170; Oscar DePriest Hand and Julia Neal Sykes, Footprints on the Rough Side of the Mountain: An African American Niche in the History of a Southern Textile City [Hand and Sykes Concepts, 1997], p.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

For example, a social science teacher covering early American history could complement that work with a question like, “ What did it mean to be an American? A great example of an essential question for history or social science is “Whose story is it?”

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

She was buried next to her brothers in the Lexington Cemetery. In 1884, the body of Confederate General Ben Hardin Helm was reinterred at the Helm Place in Elizabethtown.

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 27, 2024

In 2024, there were increased attacks on teaching Black history, including anti-CRT laws and book bans. To counter these attacks, we secured donations from authors and publishers to increase classroom access to the books listed below on African American history.

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Breckinridge ran for United States President in 1860, losing to Lincoln but winning much of the vote in the southern states]. Confederate President Jefferson was in Murfreesboro reviewing troops on the weekend of the wedding and may also have attended.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 21, 2025

appeared first on Teaching American History. I Have a Dream speech, which ranks among the most famous speeches of the 20 th century. Professor Lucas Morel Read the complete text of King’s address to the March on Washington. The post In Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2023

We have to place facts, history and science at the heart of our education systems. This was controversial for some, but gay people are a part of American history and life, and California is where Harvey Milk did his activism. For many students this was their first opportunity to really think about gender and identity.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 5, 2024

Anna Lenardson If you ask Anna Lenardson, a 2023 graduate of Ashland University’s Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program , why she enrolled in the challenging program, she replies, “I love to learn. I loved being with other teachers, talking about history and government.”

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in my World History II class. I was finally satisfied with the plan I had for my 10th graders, when it hit me: none of this actually matters.

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