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. 4 [October 1988], 387 444.)) Watch for Part 2 coming in March 2025!

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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 post Free Speech: Core Court Cases, Second Edition appeared first on Teaching American History. Interested in bulk purchasing?

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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. If students wanted to read books outside this collection, they might find them in the local public library.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

Source: Library of Congress Juneteenth — June 19th, also known as Emancipation Day — is one of the commemorations of people seizing their freedom in the United States. African American History Monument by Ed Dwight, State Capitol Grounds, Columbia, South Carolina. Dancer at Juneteenth celebration in Washington, D.C. The Brown v.

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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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Studies Weekly

MARCH 28, 2025

Students can help move books from their teacher’s desk to the class library and stacking on the shelves during clean-up time Being the door helper and holding open the door for their class to go through is a favorite for sure because it makes them feel so special!

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

Instead, I decided to try something new and share a story about one of my first experiences with deeper learning during a history course I took in college: My stomach twisted when I saw the 9 inch by 12 inch, black-and-white picture my professor was holding. The caveat was that we could only use the resources in the library.

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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.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Library of Congress. Library of Congress. The post Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine appeared first on Teaching American History. Elizabeth Eckford attempting to enter Little Rock School on September 4, 1957. Johnny Jenkins, United Press. Board of Education decision. Published in Ebony Magazine, January 1958.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics.

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Teaching American History

JUNE 11, 2024

“Border policies are a hot topic in the election year coming up,” Robin Deck Davis notes, so she will be reading Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America by Juan Gonzales. Spanning five centuries of Latino experience in the US, the book will enrich her knowledge of American history as a whole. Happy reading to all!

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2018

In Henrico County Public Schools, near Richmond, Virginia, the district is building new libraries and stocking them with books whose characters reflect the demographics of the student body. Tapping into students’ cultures in the curriculum fits, logically, into efforts to personalize learning.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2025

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. Read more Related Articles: The HistoryMakers: Biography: Dr. Matthew Holden, Jr. UIS professor Matthew Holden, Jr.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

The following year, she took African American history, a required course in Philadelphia schools that is an enduring legacy of the 1967 walkouts. Credit: Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, PA. Tagging along was Gym’s daughter, Taryn Flaherty, then a freshman at Masterman.

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Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In 2010, Nathan was named Kansas and National History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History. First up, the LOC (aka Library of Congress): The Library of Congress has an amazing treasure trove of primary source materials. So, you need to design a CBA? You have an idea, check.

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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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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.

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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

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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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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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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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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Teaching American History

MARCH 18, 2025

Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress. Ray Tyler Ray Tyler was the 2014 James Madison Fellow for South Carolina and a 2016 graduate of Ashland Universitys Masters Program in American History and Government. The post Margaret Sanger: The Woman Rebel appeared first on Teaching American History.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

History,” Journal of American History 95:2 (September 2008); Michael L. Reading: Eleanor Harvey, “Introduction,” The Civil War in American Art , (Washington, D. Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2021); Lucretia Giese, “Winslow Homer’s Prisoners from the Front: an American History Painting?”

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

Distribution of Delmont’s book is a direct challenge to the widespread removal of books from libraries and classrooms across the country. Additionally, the book was fascinating and engaging to read, and I really appreciate the Zinn Education Project for providing this book to me for free to add to my personal and professional library.

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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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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Czarnecki, a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, wrote the paper for a “Great Texts” course taught by Professor Stephen Tootle on John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress.

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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. Library of Congress Prints and Photograph Division. Alton, Ill. on the night of the 7th Nov.

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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. Library of Congress Prints and Photograph Division. Alton, Ill. on the night of the 7th Nov.

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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. Perhaps American history students should learn about the LA Times bombing so they understand the complexities of the labor struggle in this era. The Times Owner’s Swift Response Detective William J.

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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. Held, John, Jr.

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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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