HistoryRewriter

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Continuing to develop my Ethnic Studies-themed book list, this week I read The All-American by Joe Milan Jr. I wish the book dove a little deeper into the history of the Korean peninsula. How has the public debate about immigration changed during US history? What books have you chosen to read about North and South Korea?

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World History History Teaching 130

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 19, 2025

On Monday, March 24, 2025 , historian Jeanne Theoharis and Rethinking Schools editorJesse Hagopian will discuss Theohariss book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.s She is the author or co-author of numerous books and articles on the Civil Rights and Black Power movements and the politics of race and education.

Professional Development 126

Professional Development History Teaching Education 126

HistoryRewriter

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This multiple award-winning book sat in my teenage daughter’s room for a couple of years before I got around to it. I thought it would be too slow and boring for my 10th-grade World History students. I thought it would be too slow and boring for my 10th-grade World History students. The book has a slow burn.

World History 130

World History Library History 130

Active History Teacher

JULY 18, 2024

Most of the time, students are just copying off a website or book and aren’t doing any critical thinking! But if you know me, you know I want every US History timeline activity to be fun and interactive! They asked to do it again the day before we took our US History End of Course exam. Let’s be honest.

Critical Thinking 300

Critical Thinking History Teaching 300

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 8, 2013

English Teacher Sue Michels read numerous books, such as Drive by Daniel Pink and Fair Isn’t Always Equal by Rick Wormeli. History teacher Joe Manzo learned how to use iMovie and created a project on the Vietnam War to engage his students in some of the essential concepts. She also re-wrote the entire Honors English 11 curriculum.

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Sociology Artifacts High School Professional Development 410

Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Archaeological evidence and Oral Histories show people in what is today Ghana lived sustainably for millennia—until European colonial powers and the widespread trade of enslaved people changed everything. While Logan’s work revealed the plants Banda residents ate, other research reconstructed the region’s broader environmental history.

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Oral History Archaeology Heritage History 140

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The Roti Collective, a community-based research project, explores the layered histories that brought a flatbread from the Indian subcontinent around the world. In Calcutta on Your Plate , her book on Bengali cuisine and gastronomic history, she points out the absence of roti in Bengali meals until the mid-20th century.

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Cultures History Tradition Archiving 127

NCHE

MARCH 25, 2024

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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K-12 Primary Sources American History Archiving 312

Anthropology 365

APRIL 23, 2025

What He Wrote and Why it Matters Jons first book, Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race, and History (1995), came out of a simple but transformative observation: the science of human difference had changed dramatically over the twentieth century, and most people, including many scientists, hadnt caught up.

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Anthropology Humanities Cultures History 98

Teaching American History

DECEMBER 17, 2024

For the past year, Teaching American Historys webinars have been about the presidential election. So lets take a step back and look back at an entirely different aspect of US history. So lets take a step back and look back at an entirely different aspect of US history. Last spring, we broke down the presidential election cycle.

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Primary Sources American History Professional Development History 52

Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Thanks to a donation of 25 books from the University of North Carolina Press, we can offer you a copy of historian Kate Masur and illustrator Liz Clarke’s new graphic history, Freedom Was in Sight: A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region , for your story on teaching about Reconstruction.

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Teaching History High School Education 122

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Some see it as the holy grail of education, and this has manifested in countless books and presentations, especially at technology conferences. Now, I am not trying to diminish any books or presentations on the topic. No matter what education circle you are in, AI is likely a topic of conversation. I am not going to mince my words.

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Leadership Pedagogy Humanities Library 410

HistoryRewriter

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I want the books to be different from a traditional History or ELA class reading so that students understand the purpose of Ethnic studies is supposed to bring students and communities together. This book contains a great deal of emotional content that students can use to empathize with the characters in the story.

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History Tradition Government Research 130

Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

As part of an ongoing series examining Contributions of Scholars of Color , the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Department conducted a a second set of oral history interviews during the 2024 National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) Annual Meeting held in Los Angeles, California. Watch the full interview series on YouTube.

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Oral History History Political Science Museum 44

Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 12, 2024

This is why the right launched a nationwide anti-CRT campaign and book bans restricting teaching about systemic racism, and erasing the histories of immigrant and LGBTQ+ communities. The answer is that we can shift the narrative if we equip young people with peoples history and critical thinking skills to make them impervious to lies.

Critical Thinking 98

Critical Thinking History Teaching Education 98

Anthropology.net

APRIL 4, 2025

link] — Explores cultural phylogenetics through folk narratives, analogous to the methods applied to knot histories. — Though not a paper, this book provides key theoretical underpinnings about cumulative cultural evolution, relevant to understanding knot standardization. The phylogeny of Little Red Riding Hood. Eronen, J.

Humanities 65

Humanities History Archaeology Ancestry 65

Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 9, 2025

If students leaving to go to the library or logging into computers drives you nuts, just have books or printouts already available for them. Activity #2 – Allow Students to Read Lesser-Known History Stories The personal stories behind famous leaders and events make history come to life.

Social Studies 130

Social Studies Classroom Management Museum History 130

ASHP CML

APRIL 10, 2025

.” In keeping with that belief, for sixty years the NEH has served as a vital source of support for the work of humanities organizations, educators and scholars who believe that our world is improved through research and publicly accessible programs that promote a deeper understanding of literature, history, and ideas.

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Museum Archiving Library American History 98

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2024

They want to see themselves and their cultures reflected in the books we read, and they don’t want token representation. As a Colorado secondary school history teacher and former English teacher, I believe, and research shows, that student achievement improves when learners are personally engaged. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

History 139

History World Religions Inclusive Curriculum Heritage 139

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Each has been a disruptive force that has changed how people watch movies, book hotels, listen to music, access information, get assistance, store files, or get from one place to another. Sure, it might not work, but history has taught us that some of the greatest successes of all time resulted from failure.

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Cultures History Research Education 371

Zinn Education Project

AUGUST 1, 2024

But the right to teach about that labor history is jeopardized by the growing number of “anti-CRT” bills. The Zinn Education Project continues to offer free lessons on labor history and to campaign for teachers’ right to teach. Article and Lesson This Day in People’s History Below are a few key events in labor history.

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History Social Justice K-12 Teaching 98

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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History Teaching Sociology Oral History 104

Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

A link to the book and its Table of Contents is found here.) Grant was then able to steam down the Tennessee River with his army and into history. I present it here as a series of individual blogs for my readers. Links to the previously published chapters will be provided at the end of each blog. Why is it called “Civil?”

History 52

History American History 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. Weve all been there.

Teaching 136

Teaching Charter School Social Studies Geography 136

Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Donate Today Right wing politicians and media outlets are attacking the very heart of the Zinn Education Project — teaching people’s history in classrooms across the country. Officials in at least 44 states have sought — and in many cases succeeded — to enact restrictions on what teachers can say about history and current events.

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History Teaching Civics Middle School 98

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Below are some examples of how my teachers made this shift when I was the principal at New Milford High School: Mr. Groff’s history classes utilized Paperlet , a participatory technology platform where students created digital stories that incorporated various multimedia elements including video, sound, and image files.

Pedagogy 435

Pedagogy Library History High School 435

Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

But how should we approach this in the history classroom? As history teachers we often problematise controversial issues to ‘see both sides of an issue’. As always it is helpful to come back to the discipline of history and what it means to teach sensitive histories well. Grosvenor (2000, p.157),

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History Teaching Controversial Topics Tutoring 121

Moler's Musing

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

history for decades. Enter Brain, Book, Buddy, Boss one of my favorite review strategies because it reinforces retrieval practice, collaboration, and teacher-guided clarification all in one lesson. Book helps reinforce accuracy and self-correction. Get a sense of what they already know.

Economics 124

Economics Leadership Government History 124

Zinn Education Project

AUGUST 2, 2024

On Monday, September 16, 2024 , historian Kellie Carter Jackson will discuss We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance with Teaching for Black Lives co-editor Jesse Hagopian and Rethinking Schools executive director Cierra Kaler-Jones. Reading this book will cause discomfort in some folks, provoke cheers in others.

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History Oral History Archiving Teaching 98

Students of History

MAY 24, 2024

We're excited to announce that Toyosi Dada, a graduating senior at Towson High School, has been awarded the 2024 Students of History Scholarship. This prestigious scholarship, which has been awarded each year since 2017, recognizes a college-bound senior who has excelled in history education.

History 98

History Psychology Leadership History Education 98

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

By revealing how ancient Mesopotamians tied feelings to specific organs, it contributes to the broader conversation about the universality and variability of emotional experiences in human history. Steinert Book : Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East , 2022. Bennett, A.

Archiving 98

Archiving Archaeology Humanities Cultures 98

Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

After five years of research and writing, I am pleased to announce that my first book is under contract with University of Texas Press. Below is an excerpt from my book prospectus. Most importantly, the book offers an optimistic view of possibilities, even in the face of social and environmental precarity.

Anthropology 40

Anthropology Humanities Cultures Geography 40

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

One just has to refer to the history books to see how this has played out across the world since the beginning of time. The fact that there is no valid research base to support these mandates just builds greater resentment for the change process. This is a great example of forced change. Forced change rarely works.

K-12 359

K-12 Leadership Professional Development Cultures 359

ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

In an education landscape awash in technology, what impact could something as analog as a coloring book make? The “Black Girls Code the Future” coloring book was created by Nia Asemota, a New York University student and mentor with the nonprofit Black Girls Code. The interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

High School 122

High School History Cultures Middle School 122

Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The answer, according to historian James Oakes, in his outstanding book Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1860-1865 , is that emancipation was not “the singular act of a singular individual” as many Americans assume. .” Why not immediately declare liberty for the enslaved people in the South?

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American History Library History Government 102

NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

At the grocery store: “ Your students did such a great job documenting our local history! What’s the name of that young lady who did a history project about Dickson Mounds? These are just a few interactions I’ve had since my students and I shared our public history project, “The Oral History of Forgottonia.”

Oral History 100

Oral History Public History History Museum 100

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) have identified semi-domesticated maize specimens from caves in Brazil’s Peruaçu Valley, revealing a unique chapter in the crop’s evolutionary history. The history and evolution of maize. Kistler, L.,

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Archaeology Museum Cultures History 98