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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

Bunk demonstrates that our discipline matters in ways young people cannot see in textbooks, static documents, and often outdated historiographic debates. Teachers can share any entry, or collection of entries, from Bunk with students, who can also explore the evolving archives for themselves.

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People’s History Teaching Stories

Zinn Education Project

To activate their interest, I spent the first class period showing the Freedom Archives’ COINTELPRO 101 documentary. The next day, we dove into the document analysis activity compiled by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. They could not believe they were looking at the actual documents which we had learned so much about.

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