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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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Ollie Johnson, Wayne State University Dr. Ollie Johnson is Professor and former department chair in the department of African American studies at Wayne State University.

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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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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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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The curriculum is part of the Hidden Voices Project , initiated by the New York City Department of Education’s Social Studies Department and the Museum of the City of New York. For many of today’s students, the new program’s ideas and approaches to rethinking history and how it is taught are not radical.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

High-income children are more likely to travel, go to museums and attend live performances. Proponents of teaching kids more content are now wondering if it would be easier and more effective to improve reading by encouraging schools to teach a little more history, geography and civics. who started kindergarten in 2011.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. We’d examine historical images of Native American life from the Museum of Photographic Arts, other historical photos from the U.K.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

Masterman High School, the rising junior was doing research for a proposal to convince the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission to erect a marker to commemorate the walkouts, when thousands of local students marched to protest racial injustice more than 50 years earlier. It was the summer of 2019, and Nia was 15.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2017

In New York, the Statue of Liberty was renovated in 1986, and the Ellis Island Museum opened in 1990. On the Mall, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened in 1993, the Korean Veterans’ Memorial in 1995, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in 1997, the World War II Memorial and the National Museum of the American Indian in 2004.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

He has written for and consulted with museums and galleries, and was co-curator of the acclaimed exhibition Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment for the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

The students have visited places such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Temple University and a coffee factory. Ninth-grader Layla Stevens, 15, visited the National Museum of Jewish American History on one RWL trip. A key component of the curriculum is a weekly field trip called “real-world-learning,” known as RWL.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Some of my favorite classes that I’ve taken are AP American History and AP Government. I feel privileged to have grown up so close to Washington, DC, and I love visiting the numerous museums, galleries, and other cultural and historical sites. I am also a three-sport athlete where I do soccer, swimming, and track each season.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Visiting Lecturers and Session Leaders Louise Bernard is the director of the Museum of the Obama Presidential Center. Aston Gonzalez is associate professor of history at Salisbury University in Maryland. He is a scholar of nineteenth century African American history, politics, and visual culture.

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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.

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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. Treating and piping cleaned water to the Green River downstream from Munfordville, not far from where the mysterious Hidden River releases its water burden. The fumes are gone. Put on your helmet, and they will take you in.

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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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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].

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

History,” Journal of American History 95:2 (September 2008); Michael L. Tuesday, July 11 – Sessions at Metropolitan Museum of Art The War in Oil, Bronze, and Plaster Session 1 - Reflections on the previous day. Reading: Eleanor Harvey, “Introduction,” The Civil War in American Art , (Washington, D. Lunch on own.

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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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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

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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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. Jessica Rucker, Kate Masure, Maya Davis at NMAAHC on Nov. By Robert Stewart, Smithsonian.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Social studies classes spend only 8 to 9 percent of their time on Black history, treating it as a niche topic instead of a core part of American history. They develop a weaker understanding of American history when they do not understand the role of Black contributions and achievements. .

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

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.” Jackson, MS. Visited on-site June 2024.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Black contributions to society are not being recognized in the pantheon of American history. Many multicultural education advocates have promoted curricula that expand the perspectives in American history. The pushback to the ethnic studies and multicultural education movements is about protecting white history.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Black contributions to society are not being recognized in the pantheon of American history. Many multicultural education advocates have promoted curricula that expand the perspectives in American history. The pushback to the ethnic studies and multicultural education movements is about protecting white history.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Session 1: Field Trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture with U.S. Lewis will take the class on a tour of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Representative John Lewis (D), Georgia . congressperson, Rep.

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Life and Landscapes

AUGUST 1, 2024

The National Civil Rights Museum, housed in the Lorraine Motel where he was killed, is worthy of your visit. I was driving back to Falls Church, Virginia, where my family was living. I didn’t know what it meant. Martin Luther King was killed on April 4, in 1968, in Memphis.

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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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