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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. Washington University in St.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024

Zinn Education Project

Select a site in your town or city that symbolizes or reflects history that teachers would be required to lie about or omit if these bills become law, which is already the case in some states. It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. Students as Historians.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2025

Zinn Education Project

It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. Students can be invited to share the local history of the respective site you select. Sojourn to the Past students shared the Jim Crow history of swimming pools in Youngstown. Students as Historians.