Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

At Teaching American History, we know teachers are hungry for resources that help their students understand the nuances of American civic behavior. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-113102. Library of Congress, LC-USF34- 036686-D. ” Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940 June.

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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. Reading the book Half American has changed my perspective on teaching about World War II. Amanda Sandoval shared the slide instructions for the blackout poetry that she used for this activity.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

A stack of Alabama history books at the University of Alabama McLure Education Library. The Forum did hold presentations at the time about textbooks and preserving a Christian, Western view of American history. Many are no longer used in Alabama schools. Credit: Rebecca Griesbach/AL.com.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2021

Capitol last week, my instinctive response — before the despondency I felt at the desecration of American democracy, or the anger that would later have me shouting at my television set — was historical. Credit: Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images. I scrolled through my memory for comparisons. This seems hard to do.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

He did it at Tuskegee in 1906, and in his remarks which were covered in the New York Times , he said such things as: “Today, you graduates of Hampton are continuing a tradition of law-abiding Black men, because at this college something like 6,000 graduates have come from here, but only two have proven to be criminals.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2017

GEO International High School, with about 185 students, is connected to the Internationals Network for Public Schools in New York City; its schools have been more successful than traditional schools at educating new, and often traumatized, immigrants, and at boosting their emotional and social well-being, as well. Here the teachers slow down.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

He did it at Tuskegee in 1906, and in his remarks which were covered in the New York Times , he said such things as Today, you graduates of Hampton are continuing a tradition of law-abiding Black men, because at this college something like 6,000 graduates have come from here, but only two have proven to be criminals. 11, 1972: D.C.

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