Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Courtesy of Denver Public Library. 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.

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

Originally designed as an academic conference to share research, the event brought together Florida K-12 and college teachers and students, national journalists and professionals from libraries and museums whose work focuses on history and civics. One of Robinson’s fellow panelists at the conference, Hayley McCulloch, a U.S.

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NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Since 2017, NCHE has offered professional learning colloquia that focus on “Technology’s Impact in American History (TIAH).” Given the Library of Congress’s mission to connect its archives with others across the nation, we were excited to add another dimension to the current Library of Congress resources for teachers.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Library of Congress. Library of Congress. To answer these questions, we must look beyond the photographs and focus on a singular figure in the story of the Little Rock Nine, an African American woman named Daisy Bates. In his recent history of the modern Civil Rights Movement, historian Thomas E. Interview G-0009.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past.

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Teaching American History

JUNE 11, 2024

In preparation for the 2024 Alexander Lebenstein Teacher Education Institute in Richmond, VA, Amy Livingston is reading Doris Bergen’s War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust. Spanning five centuries of Latino experience in the US, the book will enrich her knowledge of American history as a whole.

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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. Tatiana Bennett was studying the history of hip-hop. Credit: Courtesy of Helen Gym.

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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. history, she said, generally go like this: “White man did this, then died.”. Subscribe today! Lessons in U.S.

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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

JUNE 25, 2024

1934–Workman attaching cables to an eight cubic yard capacity concrete bucket at a transfer station on the Nevada rim of Black Canyon,” Library of Congress, 1934. Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water , Penguin: Revised Edition, 1993. “Boulder Dam, between Arizona and Nevada, Sept.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 27, 2024

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. Controversy, Consensus, and Compromise in the American Founding, at Pima Air & Space Museum in Tuscon, AZ. Bush Presidential Library & Museum in College Station, TX. Free professional development. What more could you ask for?

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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. In 2010, Nathan was named Kansas and National History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History. So, you need to design a CBA?

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

This act required integration in employment, retail businesses and restaurants, and public facilities like libraries, parks and museumsas well as schools. Ellen Tucker, long time blog contributor for Teaching American History [1] But not as proactive as some. For a history of Rosenwald schools, see Thomas W.

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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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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Teaching American History provides various free resources for American history and government teachers, including our popular seminars , multi-day seminars , and extensive database of original source documents. Two Core Document Collections cover the entire scope of American history.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Meanwhile, at one of the tables in the hallway set up for kids working together, a girl named Silver Anderson said that doing three courses in Jaguar Academy (physical science, English and American history) gave her the schedule flexibility to meet with the band teacher on Friday mornings for an informal class in music theory and composition.

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C3 Teachers

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I thought about how interesting it would be for students to investigate how their school fits into the story of the United States, and I started to wonder how inquiry could help my students explore their community’s histories. Community history is a natural avenue for inquiry. oral histories). oral histories).

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ACRE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In the classroom, educators can explore a variety of Constitutional resources with learners by reading primary sources, reviewing changes to the Constitution throughout American History, and analyzing historical arguments relating to the founding of the United States and the Constitution today. Since its ratification, the U.S.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Principal Faculty Joshua Brown is professor of history emeritus and former executive director of the American Social History Project and professor of history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University. He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Here are my go-to spots for grabbing high-resolution current and historical political cartoons: Daryl Cagle’s searchable database of current cartoons The Week’s and US News’s collections of recent cartoons Library of Congress’s collection of over 800 cartoons from throughout American history and their dedicated Herbert Block collection that spans much (..)

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

Cal students in the Doe Library at UC Berkeley. At least, that’s how things turn out for the average American graduate, according to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. There is a consumer protection strand of American history, and now it’s higher education’s turn.”. Of course you do!

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. In a class with teachers , Delmont explained the relevance of learning this history. We’ll add more once teachers use the new paperback edition.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

History,” Journal of American History 95:2 (September 2008); Michael L. Brooks, “Reconsidering Politics in the Study of American Abolitionists,” Journal of the Civil War Era 8:2 (June 2018): 291-317; W. Reading: Susan Schulten, Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-century America (Chicago, 2012): pp.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

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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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Conversation with Sonja Czarnecki Sonja Czarnecki, 2022 MAHG Graduate “In order to understand history, you have to do history,” Sonja Czarnecki insists. Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. She also pursues her own research.

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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. The fast-paced survey covers American history from Columbus to the present day. What problems have Americans repeatedly faced in our history?” I’m Madisyn,” she said.

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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. The fast-paced survey covers American history from Columbus to the present day. What problems have Americans repeatedly faced in our history?” I’m Madisyn,” she said.

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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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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Library of Congress. Library of Congress. The LA Times bombing is not emphasized in many history classrooms today. One possible answer invokes the old adage, history is written by the winners. Otis became a symbol of anti-union capitalists unwilling to negotiate wages or working conditions. Head and shoulders portrait.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Teaching American History has recently published World War I and the 1920s: Core Documents , a collection curated by Professor Jennifer D. Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. 1926) Library of Congress. Sergt Charles Raymond Isum.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 30, 2024

An online resource guide at Library of Congress, U.S. For each president, library staff have collected primary materials illustrating what made his inauguration unique. The first Presidential inauguration in American history entailed careful planning, with much behind-the-scenes negotiation.

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Society for Classical Studies

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Call for Applications: Penn State Special Collections Library Research Grants kskordal Tue, 11/12/2024 - 09:13 Image Applications are being accepted for research grants utilizing The Eberly Family Special Collections Library. Franklin African American History Research Award Thanks to a generous gift from Dr. V.P.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

27) Library of Congress, Miscellaneous Items in High Demand. The post Bayard Rustin and Nonviolent Resistance: Shaping the Modern Civil Rights Movement appeared first on Teaching American History. Washington D.C: Recently I was planning to go from Louisville to Nashville by bus.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

— Inside a high-ceilinged library at Northridge High School here, seniors are typing on 16-year-old laptops donated by a local Rotary Club. We’re doing everything we can,” says Mr. Norton, as the seniors in the library close their balky laptops and head to class. Photo: Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Keene at MAHG 2021 Teaching American History has recently published World War I and the 1920s: Core Documents , a collection curated by Professor Jennifer D. Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. For Europeans, World War I was devastating.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And in one IB history class, she said a teacher had students pick cotton seeds off cotton plants to demonstrate the efficiency of the cotton gin, in an attempt to include multiple perspectives in his class. Samuels/The Hechinger Report Virginia’s rewrite of its history curriculum started off with heat and discord. Credit: Christina A.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

That money came through a federal program that pumped $24 billion in grants to child care centers across the country to keep them running during the pandemic — part of the single largest investment in child care in American history. Giggles & Wiggles hasn’t just been a job for Denman and Holman-Steffels. It’s been a community.

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