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MARCH 25, 2024

The two needs are related, for there is simply not enough time for those who teach multiple classes, often in multiple disciplines, to stay on top of the flood of specialized writing, to be confident that they are teaching the best that scholars have learned.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Ray Tyler Ray Tyler was the 2014 James Madison Fellow for South Carolina and a 2016 graduate of Ashland UniversitysMasters Program in American History and Government. The post Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: Sorting the Real from the Myth appeared first on Teaching American History.

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APRIL 1, 2025

In honor of womens history month, we bring you a reading selection that highlights the upheaval American society experienced in the 1920s as regards gender roles. Read more Want more womens history materials? It was not even decent to concede that women were bipeds.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Optional topics do not appear on AP exams, and AP coursework teaches to the test. How can the study of Black Lives Matter, one of the most impactful civil rights movements of the twenty-first century, which sparked protests around the world, be optional when studying the African American experience? Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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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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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“To be a good member of your community, you really have to understand why people do the things that they do,” says Bryan Little, who teaches both on-level Government and AP Government at McPherson High School in McPherson, Kansas. That’s why good teaching about citizenship involves students in an intentional study of human behavior.”

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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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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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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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APRIL 8, 2025

One-Day seminars are the easiest way to engage with Teaching American History in person. Courtney Reiner holds a Bachelor of Arts in Integrated Social Studies degree from Kent State University and a Masters of American History and Government degree from Ashland University.

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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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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. She is a 2023-24 Teach Plus Colorado Policy Fellow.

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JUNE 11, 2024

But We Can’t Teach? Yet, if the right wing has its way, it will be illegal to teach students about Juneteenth. At least 44 states have passed or proposed legislation to prohibit teaching about structural racism. But educators around the country continue to pledge to teach the truth about structural racism.

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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. hours of professional development.

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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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DECEMBER 10, 2024

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. The post The Bill of Rights appeared first on Teaching American History.

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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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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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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2023

We have to place facts, history and science at the heart of our education systems. There should be nothing partisan about teaching young people the truth. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. They are advocating for core curriculum changes in social studies — specifically American history — classes.

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Active History Teacher

JULY 9, 2021

If you teach in a state with a standardized test, then you know formative assessments are the KEY to success! In my US History classroom, I am constantly evaluating what works best in terms of the age-old question, “Did they get it?” Check out the version for early American History and Modern American History.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 22, 2025

Cade Lohrding teaches social studies for all three grades at Kiowa County Junior High School in Greensburg, Kansas. Lohrding enjoyed this time of socializing a chance to talk with teachers from all over the country who teach different groups of kids. Lohrdings Decision to Teach As a child, Lohrding met President George W.

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APRIL 15, 2025

Civil Rights and the War in Vietnam appeared first on Teaching American History. Read the entire document, our scholarly introduction, and discussion questions here. And visit our bookstore to get your copy of The Cold War today. The post Conflicted Policies?

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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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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.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 17, 2011

The transformation taking place at New Milford High School to create a 21st Century culture of teaching an learning would fit this bill. This is why I was so pleased to learn about what two of my dynamic history teachers were doing in their classes. Image credit: [link] For a recent assignment, students in Ms. Perna and Ms.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 29, 2025

The post Honoring the Life of Lincoln with His Last Speech appeared first on Teaching American History. The Biblical analogy fails, however, when one considers that the Southern prodigals did not acknowledge having betrayed the Union when they seceded.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This summer we asked five teachers attending the residential program of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) how they convey to students what self-government requires. Robertson teaches her government courses entirely from primary documents. How Fragile is This System? Little agreed. she exhorts.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

This summer we asked five teachers attending the residential program of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) how they convey to students what self-government requires. Casey Enright Casey Enright , who teaches at Mesa High School in Arizona, recalled a lesson he’d taught on the separation of powers.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 28, 2025

Classroom Behavior Management Ideas to Try Mar 28, 2025 By Debbie Bagley NEWSLETTER Teaching children to manage their emotions is essential in the 21st century. A unique and effective way teachers can do this is by giving opportunities for regulating emotions through proprioceptive input activities.

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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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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. Click here.

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JANUARY 28, 2025

But this meant also integrating the teaching staff of Reid School, which served the black community, into the formerly white 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. 4 [October 1988], 387 444.))

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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

JULY 2, 2024

Teaching American History emphasizes the use of primary documents. Why, then, is Teaching American History publishing a series of narrative histories? In case you didn’t know about the narrative histories, let me describe them, before I explain them.

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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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