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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

At NCHE conferences , for example, a glance at the program reveals that most sessions focus on an important moment or a major problem in history and offer a strategy to present it in a new way. This writing tends to be engaging, brief, and pointed, relating history to current concerns, and spanning political perspectives.

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Dyess Colony: Johnny Cash’s Boyhood Home

ACRE

The history of Dyess Colony, along with the Cash family, hold many stories and learning opportunities. They will view artifacts from the people who lived in Dyess and learn how individuals and families lived during that time period. For instance, the song “Five Feet High and Rising” was based on the 1937 flood.

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