Teaching American History

APRIL 15, 2025

National Archives. Our work, particularly in the South, has taught us that the United States government has never guaranteed the freedom of oppressed citizens, and is not yet truly determined to end the rule of terror and oppression within its own borders. And visit our bookstore to get your copy of The Cold War today.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. Washington University in St.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Nau III Assistant Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy at the University of Virginia. He is also a Research Associate at the Center on the Politics of Development at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow at the Governance and Local Development Institute.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2019

Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. The story’s breadth is rarely explained, said Tate, who wants visitors to McDonogh 19 to learn the history, within the very space where history was made. “I Her daughter, Cabrini Cooper, 42, first heard about her mother’s place in history from a great-aunt.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Conversation with Sonja Czarnecki Sonja Czarnecki, 2022 MAHG Graduate “In order to understand history, you have to do history,” Sonja Czarnecki insists. Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. I felt like I’d won my own History Day contest!”

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HistoryRewriter

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This post features examples of a 10th-grade World History class practicing interpreting literary criticism. This was a part of a large, interdisciplinary project that required the collaboration of an ELA teacher, a History teacher, and a Spanish teacher. The books are archived here.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

The interest of the country is awakened and … the government responds.” Courtesy of Civil Rights Movement Archive, [link] The best known of these “freedom facets” is also the most immediately politically consequential one: the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). History this Week. The History Channel.

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Political Science Now

JULY 24, 2024

Dr. Shogan is currently the 11 th Archivist of the United States (and first political scientist to hold this office); a position in which she directs the National Archives and Records Administration. In referring to the National Archives, she said, “We are an essential building block of democracy. It is not a nice thing to have.

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ASHP CML

OCTOBER 11, 2022

This summer thirty middle and high school teachers from throughout the United States joined the ASHP/CML for a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Summer Institute on LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States. The institute introduced the rich body of recent scholarship covering the span of U.S.

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Strange Maps

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Apart from its golden-domed headquarters, the campus also includes tyrbes (holy tombs of previous Debedabas); extensive archives on the Order’s history, including audio recordings of Bektashi musical traditions; and a museum and a library. Credit : Guerric Poncet/Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0) Strange Maps #125x Got a strange map?

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 24, 2024

Nau III Assistant Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy at the University of Virginia. He also has published or has forthcoming work on local governance in Latin America, methods for causal inference, and the regulation of gig economy labor in the United States.

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Civics for All of US

MAY 12, 2023

The Bill of Rights Workshop for Secondary Educators Katie Munn Fri, 05/12/2023 - 08:50 Body Participants in this online workshop will study the history of the Bill of Rights by analyzing primary sources. Registration is free, and the program will be held via Zoom. You will receive the connection information via email the week of the event.

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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. Government: PP.2.USG.2

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Political Science Now

APRIL 17, 2024

His history of political thought in twentieth-century Europe, Contesting Democracy, was published by Yale University Press in the summer of 2011. Her research is interdisciplinary, drawing on archival sources as well as a variety of immersion-based methods, including participant-observation research. Antony’s College.

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Political Science Now

JULY 30, 2024

The Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award , formally the APSA Best Book Award, is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best book on government, politics, or international affairs.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

Ripley via the Internet Archive ) Ripley was a man of various talents. He held various important government posts in the first decades of the 20th century, including Administrator of Labor Standards in the Department of War (1917-18). Ripley via the Internet Archive ) There were other categorizations, each as equally subjective.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Among those standards is the one that governs who provides these classes. The document is no longer on the university’s website, but is available from a web archive.). Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 15, 2024

For data collection, we consider the typical ways in which process tracing gathers evidence on the observable implications of causal mechanisms, including archival work, document analysis of secondary sources, various field methods (interviews, political ethnography, ethnography), and surveys.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2024

Credit: National Archives Foundation The auditorium of Morton High school (left) a school for Black students and the auditorium of Farmville High School (right) a school for white students. Credit: Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images 1956: The University of Alabama admits Autherine Lucy, its first Black student. Davis, et al.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

Schools hold the history and culture of a place through yearbooks, trophy cases, and photo archives. In 2013, the federal government estimated that schools nationwide needed a $550 billion investment to bring them up to standard, just for deferred maintenance issues — damage from postponing repairs.

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Life and Landscapes

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

” You might find its French history and the relationship to Kentucky of interest! “CHARETTE AND JULES VERNE” It was an interesting question that no one was asking. And so we dive into NAJVS archives and their fabulous Palik Series of early Jules Verne translations edited by Brian Taves [1959-2019].

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

A recent government survey showed that segregation by race and class in the nation’s public schools is getting worse, not better. When he returned from college in 1993 to work as a history teacher in the district, he wondered where all the white students had gone. Black History was added, busing was provided.

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Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies with the Kansas State Department of Education. In 2010, Nathan was named Kansas and National History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History. State Archives!! :

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

While the university’s grim history has been known for years, it was only in 2015 that Georgetown President John DeGioia announced the formation of a Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation to “establish a dialogue on Georgetown’s historical ties to the institution of slavery.” The archive is deep and rich and we need to use it.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2023

Yet that effort might be wasted thanks to the nearly 14,000 laws and regulations that can restrict individuals with arrest and conviction histories from getting licensed in a given field. The Virginia Board of Bar Examiners wasn’t convinced Wiese should be allowed to practice law, considering his criminal history. This is amazing.’

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

A few years ago, I went out to Amherst College in western Massachusetts, where Catherine Epstein took me down to the school’s archives. 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. Kirk: Nicola Courtright teaches art history at Amherst.

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Political Science Now

JULY 17, 2024

Corwin Award for the best dissertation in the field of public law Recipient: Lucien Ferguson, Boston College Law School Title: “The Spirit of Caste: Recasting the History of Civil Rights” Harold D. The Consequences of Foreign Criticism” Leonard D. Cohen, University of Chicago Hubert H.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

His posthumously published The Dawn of Everything , an ambitious reconsideration of human history co-written with archaeologist David Wengrow , became an international bestseller. Read more from the SAPIENS archives: Do Things Have to Be This Way? More trade books of Graebers writing were released posthumously in 2023 and 2024.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Keene at MAHG 2021 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. For Europeans, World War I was devastating.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

History students. To activate their interest, I spent the first class period showing the Freedom Archives’ COINTELPRO 101 documentary. For the full 90-minute block period students discussed, jotted down notes, and exclaimed in both horror and shock as they learned about a sliver of our country’s hidden history.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 25, 2025

Lessons on Race, the Supreme Court, and the Legacy of Franz Boas Credit: National Archives at San Francisco Hin Lun Jow, Certificate of Identity 43195, issued after he entered the U.S., Howe, grandson of Chew Howe) Lessons What lessons can we take away from this history? president in the 2020s. Credit: Laurence J.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Read more from the SAPIENS archive: Lessons From Marsand Jamaicaon Sovereignty. Or they might take issue with how decisions are made by government or business leaders that affect their communities without listening to their concerns. They may want to engage in space exploration but feel excluded from the way its systems are organized.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 10, 2024

To understand Operation Christmas Drop, it helps to have some history and geography. Read on, from the SAPIENS archives: Requiem for a War Robot. Defense Department providing filmmakers with free access to military planes and Andersen Air Force Baseprovided that movie scripts were approved by government officials.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

This has a history. In this article, I explore this history and the series of political and economic processes that have made bedsiding in Zambia into what it is today. Through archival research at the Melville J. The history of hospital care has also created a situation where bedsiders and patients may not trust hospital staff.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Including the Electoral College in your civics and government class is essential. This has happened five times in US history, twice in the last 25 years—the 2000 and 2016 elections. Washington State Archives) The post 5 Activities Ideas for Teaching the Electoral College appeared first on Let's Cultivate Greatness.

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ASHP CML

MARCH 3, 2025

The ASHP staff knows that such changes dont emerge overnight; as we look backward and ahead, we remain committed to making our work as history educators help generate greater understanding of the current historical moment. These stories are weaved together through the use of archival footage and nearly constant jazz music.

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