Teaching American History

APRIL 22, 2025

Invited to attend a TAH multiday seminar on the Cold War at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, social studies teacher Cade Lohrding was thrilled. Professor John Moser, the seminar facilitator, asked the participants if there were aspects of the Cold War era they missed. I’d never done anything like that before.

Junior High 52

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Lindblom based it on a summer seminar she attended in the early 2000s: the Presidential Academy, a forerunner of Teaching American History’s current programs. This inspired Lindblom to design an elective sophomore course on the same three periods, using many of the primary documents she’d studied in the TAH seminar.

American History 98

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

Catherine Epstein: We have the papers of some relatively famous alums, and then we have lots of information just on the history of the college. Amherst enrolls about 1,900 students and offers more than 850 courses, many of them small seminars. Jon: Yeah, or history, like you did, Kirk. Archivist: Great. What does that mean?

Critical Thinking 101

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