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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

provides connection and coherence through the careful effort of trained human curators, making more than ten thousand articles from five hundred publications easily searchable and interconnected. 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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Call for Applications: 2025-2026 Hellenic Research Fellowship Program

Society for Classical Studies

Currently numbering over 83,000 volumes and 500 linear feet of personal papers and institutional archives, it comprises a large circulating book collection, journal holdings, electronic resources, non-print media, rare books, archival materials, art, and artifacts. Questions about the Program can be directed to George I.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S.

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Classroom Based Assessments – Where to start

Doing Social Studies

Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies with the Kansas State Department of Education. First up, the LOC (aka Library of Congress): The Library of Congress has an amazing treasure trove of primary source materials. State Archives!! :

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

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. My desire to know exploded.

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Call for Applications: 2024-2025 Hellenic Research Fellowship Program

Society for Classical Studies

Currently numbering over 80,000 volumes and 500 linear feet of personal papers and institutional archives, it comprises a large circulating book collection, journal holdings, electronic resources, non-print media, rare books, archival materials, art, and artifacts. Questions about the Program can be directed to George I.

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

This summer, Creel joined a dozen other teachers from across the state at a weeklong training institute at the state’s Department of Archives and History. I tried to use it as an opportunity for the students, to get them to care about history and about human rights around the world.”. It changed me as an individual,” she said. “I

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