World History Teachers Blog

MARCH 2, 2025

Here is a cool new online archive of 20th-century resources surrounding Winston Churchill. The archive includes primary sources such as images, cartoons, and documents. One of the most interesting parts of the archives is the investigations of significant issues designed for high school students.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

A Social Studies Teacher’s Thoughts Critical Literacy by Colleen Tambuscio Learning about history offers meaningful and authentic opportunities for students to express their knowledge of the subject matter through writing and discourse. Gather 4 archival photographs to provide documented proof of the specific abuse towards the victim group.

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Museum Archiving Social Studies History 309

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. I started learning about the diaspora through books and archives when I attended a historically Black university (HBCU) for graduate school. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me.

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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

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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Social Studies Research Archiving American History 98

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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