Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

Little wonder that Dunn’s course in this year’s summer residential Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, “From Courthouse to Schoolhouse,” drew teachers from urban and rural areas across the country. West, “The Supreme Court as School Board Revisited.” These included Epperson v.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

African American History Monument by Ed Dwight, State Capitol Grounds, Columbia, South Carolina. General Granger’s order was less directed toward offering news to the enslaved than it was about commanding lawless human traffickers and insurrectionists to obey the Proclamation issued two years earlier. Source: Alamy.In

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Morrison was reflecting on her 45-year career crafting some of the most moving and important novels in American history, days before publishing her 11th and final novel, God Help the Child , in 2015. Morrison’s fiction is often rooted in historical fact, including the bloodshed and violence that continue to mar American history.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2021

I grew up in an area with a large Asian American population, including 25 percent of the students in my high school. And yet, I have never had the opportunity to discuss anti-Asian racism in the classroom, learn about Asian American history or engage with educators who understand my experiences.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

He helped me during lunch with my history assignments, and he became interested in the role of immigration in American history. The sharing of stories is as human and fundamental as breathing itself. Despite our differences, stories are what keep our bond of humanity intact.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2023

I was one of the youngest students in the class, and we learned everything about human behavior. I’m still connected with my AP Psychology teacher, Jacki Della Rosa Carron , and she remains one of my favorite humans. There should be nothing partisan about teaching young people the truth.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2020

It probably means you’re not regularly talking with them about current events and they’re not getting a good education about American history in school. Ignoring anti-black policy and policing disrespects our shared humanity, let alone the American Flag. All the time.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “American History and Civics” fourfold. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

For one group, the experience included visiting the ocean hall at the National Museum of Natural History, where they viewed exhibits under a giant whale specimen displayed from the ceiling, then reflected on the sensory details they observed and how those might appeal to students. I'm a human being. Photo by Rebecca Koenig.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2018

Unlike other species, humans use language as a kind of operating system for our big brains. But even back when every school taught civics and American history, very few students attained adult literacy. Leave this field empty if you're human: Reading has always been a vital pleasure for a very small minority.

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

At that moment, I recalled that the course was titled “Introduction to Historical Thought” but when I showed up for the class, I then saw the subtitle: “Introduction to Historical Thought: Mass Atrocities in American History.” The caveat was that we could only use the resources in the library.

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Moler's Musing

AUGUST 28, 2024

A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing a 5-6 Day Unit on Native American History: A Collaborative Journey with AI Introduction: As educators, we constantly strive to create units that not only align with educational standards but also address the specific needs and skills of our students—especially those with IEPs.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Many also found community online, by following Asian American educators publicly sharing their learnings and resources (e.g., Allison Shelley / EDUimages If the charge of educators is to help students make sense of the world and their place in it, educators need to be systematically and consistently supported in doing the same.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For many of today’s students, the new program’s ideas and approaches to rethinking history and how it is taught are not radical. This generation is hyper-aware of the way that history has been framed — what is included and what is left out. The students were asked to role-play during class. It felt silly.

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Teaching American History

JULY 9, 2024

Ohio House members from both sides of the aisle took turns reading the Declaration from its opening, “When in the course of human events,” through its closing pledge of “our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor,” along with the names of its signatories. The reading typifies Brennan’s creative approach to public service.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

All four Hidalgos love American history, and a dual-enrollment course allowed their 17-year-old daughter to earn college credit while sharing the class content with her brother and parents. The Hidalgo’s 14-year-old son also jumped at the opportunity to earn college credit early, and enrolled in communications and composition courses.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2024

Each year, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funds summer institutes for teachers. These are tuition-free opportunities for K–12 educators to study a variety of humanities topics. The institutes featured below are a few of the ones that could be of interest to people’s history educators.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 9, 2024

In any class that focuses on the Founding era in our MA in American History & Government program (MAHG) , you’re almost certainly going to discuss Federalist #1 and how often human history is shaped by “accident and force” instead of “reflection and choice.”

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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.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. Peters agreed. Civic engagement involves more than just showing up to vote.

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Civics U

JULY 18, 2022

THE DRIVE FOR PROGRESS In American history early colonists’ and settlers’ desire and drive for progress was necessitated by the need to organize ways to survive, and fed by the opportunity to use the new territory that they took and occupied.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The next school year, she was asked to teach not only the regular-level geography course but also AP Human Geography and World History. He told her about the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) at Ashland University. “I found other people who were good at what they did, and learned from them.”

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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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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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

Her son’s story will be on display for all the world to see when the new Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum open their doors for the state’s bicentennial next month. I had a sneak preview and found both glorious context and a tour of history that goes well beyond Martin Luther King Jr.

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C3 Teachers

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

This workshop seeks to equip teachers with the tools, skills, and confidence necessary to engage students in community history through inquiry. This National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks in American History and Culture Workshop will bring 72 teachers from all over the country to Spartanburg, South Carolina in July 2022.

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Civics U

APRIL 21, 2022

Natural rights are rights that are considered to be universal human rights that are granted by nature or God, not granted by society or government and thus not to be revoked by society or government. They are an intrinsic part of human existence.

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ASHP CML

MARCH 5, 2024

Currently ASHP/CML is a major partner in several federally funded National Endowment for the Humanities projects and works with WNET on a history gaming series for middle-school students.ASHP/CML also oversees the Graduate Center’s New Media Lab, a facility for students and faculty to produce digital projects.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

She was director of exhibitions at the New York Public Library, and previously a senior content developer and interpretive planner in the New York office of the museum design firm Ralph Appelbaum Associates, where she worked on the development of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, along with other international projects.

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Facing Today

JUNE 30, 2022

His words and oratorical skills were so powerful that his speech remains an important cultural touchstone, and has inspired the formation of annual reading groups including the Reading Frederick Douglass Together program offered across Massachusetts by Mass Humanities.

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 28, 2024

To save the cave, for it had become a drain for human waste; whether grain, animal, or industrial debris. Land that supports such a thin paste of humans spread out on top like jelly and jam. “Out of sight, out of mind.” The wonder and the wilderness there. The “blood” flow of the land within.

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Museum History Humanities American History 52

Teaching American History

APRIL 16, 2024

Many of the documents Schmeichel uses reflect American political theory, probing the interrelated ideas of liberty and equality. Those ideas birthed what I would say is the greatest nation in human history. When we engage with those ideas, we’re not diminishing what history is as a discipline; we’re elevating it.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As we have argued elsewhere , at the heart of the current efforts is deep-seated disagreement “over whether and to what extent racism is embedded in American history and institutions, how racism should be acknowledged and combatted, and who bears responsibility for ongoing racial discrimination and injustice.”.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Disaggregating People of Color As a Black researcher, educator, and professional committed to intersectional racial justice, I observe that learning about the humanness of people with whom I research puts much of the racial division in context of a broader history of Eurocentrism and imperialism.

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