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

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. EdSurge spent a morning with the teachers as they toured Smithsonian museums in small groups. They taught Welch that history is made up of “little moments” in people’s lives. history teacher in Pittsburgh.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

Background on Juneteenth Here are key points from scholars Greg Carr, Christopher Wilson, and Clint Smith on the history beyond the traditional textbook narrative about Juneteenth. African American History Monument by Ed Dwight, State Capitol Grounds, Columbia, South Carolina. Source: Alamy.In The Brown v.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Courtesy of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. Joseph Postel l is Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College and a faculty member in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program at Ashland University. President Nixon addressing a joint session of Congress; WHPO-9299-07; 6/1/1972.

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The Hechinger Report

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).” With Francis’s help, we began to frame a colloquium to focus on the pre-19 th century period and chose the title, “ Uncovering Lost Voices in American History.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Only a third of American students are reading proficiently at grade level, according to national benchmark tests. A September 2020 study from the Thomas B.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

History this Week. The History Channel. Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. Malik Ali, a James Madison Fellow and 2017 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, is Tukman Distinguished Teacher of History at the Branson School in Ross, California. I Question America: 1963-1964.”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

The American Historical Association offers over one thousand Civil War newspaper editorials , for example. It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. We could find history games at Playing History or Flight to Freedom.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A widely-published writer, he’s the author, co-author, or editor of four music history books and many essays and articles. The post The History of Black Music — A Love Supreme appeared first on Zinn Education Project. Ramsey, Jr. Who Hears Here? On Black Music, Pasts and Present (2022) is his latest book.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 27, 2024

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. Some of our topics include: Security, Self Determination, and Empire: The Grand Alliance, 1941-1945 at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, LA. Bush Presidential Library & Museum in College Station, TX. Augustine, FL. Click here.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 10, 2024

December 31, 1935) State Museum of Pennsylvania, The Senate reduced the number of proposed amendments from 17 to 12. By supporting freedom of conscience, free speech, and enhanced rights of due process of law, Americans appealed beyond their traditions to their own distinctly American ideas. Shermans view prevailed.

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Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 26, 2024

The City of West Point does an excellent job of identifying and highlighting its history. Go to the local museum and ask historian Monie Matthews about Sherman’s activities in the city [his predecessor, Richard Briggs, was exceptionally prolific in West Point research and publication]. Its location was important and logistical.

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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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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

At Poolesville High School, I am a part of the humanities magnet program where I am supported as I study my interests in political science, writing, editing, and history. Some of my favorite classes that I’ve taken are AP American History and AP Government. Mahlet Ayele is a rising senior at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Maikko, 2, in pink, Terrance, 1, in red, and Nylah, behind Terrance, dance as their child care provider, Lorna Parks, foreground, claps during a visit by staffers from Detroit’s African-American History Museum. Michael Elsen-Rooney/The Teacher Project. It’s one way she’s found over the years to save a few extra dollars.

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 28, 2024

The American Cave Conservation Association has built a wonderful museum there through which you can enter down. You will feel the history surround you as you sit on the courthouse wall. You can now enter the Hidden River Cave through the town of Horse Cave. The fumes are gone. Put on your helmet, and they will take you in.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson. What happened to Emmett Till was brutal, but the tragedy has been sanitized in Mississippi textbooks and in discussions of this state’s violent, racist history. The museums are vast, engaging and traumatizing. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2025

He also completed an APSA Oral History Interview in 1993, where he shares his experiences in the discipline of political science. Through the media and a series of user-friendly products, services and events, The HistoryMakers enlightens, entertains and educates the public, helping to refashion a more inclusive record of American history.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

The $500 million plan — the largest single undertaking in the history of the housing authority, according to officials — also includes the redevelopment of the neighborhood’s 510 units of public housing and roughly 10 blocks of a commercial corridor. They are also preparing to intern twice a week next year with organizations across the city.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2017

During my scholarly career, beginning with a college honors essay on preachers and theologians who celebrated English monarchy in the American colonies, I have highlighted the consensus that runs through our history. In New York, the Statue of Liberty was renovated in 1986, and the Ellis Island Museum opened in 1990.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Whereas I worked for many decades now with Native American communities in the U.S. So, if I was going to make, develop an op-ed around Native American history and culture I’ve written books, received grants and so on, I’m well prepared to make that argument. No actual expertise in that area. south west.

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ASHP CML

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: Eleanor Harvey, “Introduction,” The Civil War in American Art , (Washington, D. Stephanie M.

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Zinn Education Project

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

On November 12, the National Museum of African American History and Culture hosted a conversation about the new graphic history , Freedom Was in Sight. The post New Graphic History of Reconstruction in D.C. Jessica Rucker, Kate Masure, Maya Davis at NMAAHC on Nov. By Robert Stewart, Smithsonian.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2020

We can admit our mistakes while also celebrating the heroes of our history — which must include Black history. And to do that, we must build an education system that embraces Black history and cultures for the sake of all our children. Their history lessons celebrate white people, and their books feature white characters.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2025

With a curriculum that includes slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, two world wars and the Civil Rights Movement, American history teachers are used to venturing into emotionally charged subjects. According to the report, American Lesson Plan: Teaching U.S.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

This course is an introduction to the histories of African Americans for those who talk favorably about “departed” black heroes like Ben Carson but find it difficult to recognize a black president. Session 1: Field Trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture with U.S. Frederick Douglass, ca.

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Life and Landscapes

AUGUST 1, 2024

But sometimes it is only found in history books or articles like this. The National Civil Rights Museum, housed in the Lorraine Motel where he was killed, is worthy of your visit. Reality counts, truth will out. What were we fighting for? These were the 1960s. I was driving back to Falls Church, Virginia, where my family was living.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

In 1926, he originated the celebration of Black History Week and is the author of 16 books about African Americans. Last year Vice President Mike Pence commemorated the start of Black History Month (BLM) by acknowledging Abraham Lincoln, a white man, for submitting the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Last year Vice President Mike Pence commemorated the start of Black History Month (BLM) by acknowledging Abraham Lincoln, a white man, for submitting the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery. It’s obvious that black history is needed all year long. It was a sign of things to come. Racism is taught.

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