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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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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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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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.

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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.

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Critical Thinking History Teaching 300

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.

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Social Studies Classroom Management Museum History 130

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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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 407

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

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 Archiving American History 312

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 121

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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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 17, 2022

Here are two excellent clips about the Egyptian Book of the Dead, a book written mostly in hieroglyphics with vignettes and stories about the deceased and their journey into the afterlife. It includes some of the entries in the Book of the Dead and asks students to create categories for the entries.

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World History History 130

Moler's Musing

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

I also added new questions focused on what we actually covered in classthings that reflected the way we analyzed history, not just the way the textbook framed it. My daughters book, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women. It made Black history personal. The inspiration? congressman.

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History Critical Thinking Research 116

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 400

History Havoc

JANUARY 12, 2025

One of the books I have taught for the past decade has been The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. Every year I talk about how the book helped pass legislation dealing with food preparation. John Green even said in his Crash Course video how it was the only book that ever made him throw up. But that was not Sinclairs goal.

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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.

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Critical Thinking History Teaching Education 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.

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History World Religions Inclusive Curriculum Heritage 137

ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

With his monotone voice and lack of enthusiasm, he could convince anyone that history is incredibly boring. As a high school history teacher, whenever I meet new adults and we talk about our professions, I often find myself being met with a familiar reaction: "I disliked the subject in school, but now I find it interesting."

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History Primary Sources Artifacts Social Studies 138

Zinn Education Project

MAY 25, 2024

Memorial Day Massacre Check out the documentary and companion oral history collection, Memorial Day Massacre: Workers Die, Film Buried about the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre, when police in Chicago shot at and gassed a peaceful gathering of striking steelworkers and their supporters, killing 10 people, most of them shot in the back. segment.

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History Oral History Education 111

Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

A link to the book and its Table of Contents is found here.) 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. Look for them on each Saturday morning! (A And even those experts are uncertain, even after a detailed analysis.

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TeachThought

APRIL 28, 2024

” – Mason Cooley “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” ” – Frederick Douglass “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” ” – Stephen King “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”

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Library Critical Thinking History Cultures 267

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?”

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History American History 52

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

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.

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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.

Cultures 365

Cultures History Research Education 365

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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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.

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Pedagogy Library History High School 429

Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

A link to the book and its Table of Contents is found here.) After the Battle of Perryville on October 8, 1862, Morgan and his Second Kentucky Cavalry Regiment of 1,800 horsemen escaped Kentucky by riding through the region described in this book. I present it here as a series of individual blogs for my readers.

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History American History Cultures 52

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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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 25, 2018

I never imagined I would have authored or co-authored a book, let alone six. The rest is history. One day in 2010 I received a Twitter message from Bill Ferriter asking if I would be interested in co-authoring a book with him and Jason Ramsden titled Communicating and Connecting with Social Media. I am no author.”

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Leadership Pedagogy History High School 240

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.

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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 92

Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

A link to the book and its Table of Contents is found here.) The crossing of Morgan’s men into Indiana is steeped in local history and well-remembered by local residents. Displays jampacked with meaningful objects, pictures, and documents that will bring the history of Civil War in Brandenburg into focus.

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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.

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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.

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