Future of History

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Teaching about Judaism, Christianity and Islam needs to be a staple in middle school world history and culture classes. On the anniversary of October 7, Lauren Brown points out misconceptions and offers resource ideas to help counter students' frequent confusion.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2023

He even brought me very good motivational books to read and try, such as “Atomic Habits” and “The Power of Habit.” Slowly I got the motivation to study again and started reading books on the side of those lessons. His book gave me new motivation and changed my way of thinking in life. But in those hard days, I was not alone.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

. — On the long drive south, as the land on the horizon turned from mottled green to dusty brown, the college professor’s Subaru carried four cartons of doughnuts, two bags of fresh produce and a bin of children’s books. This story also appeared in High Country News. All of it was destined for rural schools. And that’s just what he did.

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World History Teachers Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Teaching Reconstruction in US History? Kidada Williams begins her book, "I Saw Death Coming" by reviewing developments immediately after the Civil War. Here is a fascinating overview from the viewpoints of the many freed slaves who experienced it. The events undid many individuals and families. Would they live through a raid?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I started learning about the diaspora through books and archives when I attended a historically Black university (HBCU) for graduate school. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. My wife and I chose Aniefuna because in studying Black history, we learned that our land was never lost.

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World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

Dr. Truschke also recommends the first few pages of the book, Everyday Hindusim, for its review of caste, which she says appears in the first 5 pages of the book. You can identify caste through various factors, including surname, accent, dress, region of origin, and even visible face markers." Here is a link to Dr. Truschke's tweet.

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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 15, 2022

William Dalrymple, the author of numerous books about India, including " T he Anararchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire , " is starting a new podcast called "Empire." Anita Anand, author of the Patient Assassin , will cohost the podcast with Dalrymple.

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World History Teachers Blog

JULY 24, 2022

One of Professor Rediker's books is about the slave ship itself. Here is an interesting interview with Professor Marcus Rediker about the transatlantic slave trade. He discusses the characteristics of those ships and types of resistance. This interview would work well with a unit about the time period between 1450-1750.

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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

They come from Professor Peter Frankopan and are based on an illustrated adaptation of his best-selling book by the same name. Here are some excellent resources for teaching the Silk Roads , especially to younger students.

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ED Surge

JULY 21, 2022

One student composed a song , using string instruments, with the goal of evoking the ominous and anxious feelings related to that period in world history. In his book, " How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories Behind Effective College Teaching ," Josh Eyler reminds us that: “In order to learn something, we must first wonder about it.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For Zeng, it was clear that the problems with the way world history was taught at her school bled through into the teaching of U.S. To change the way this history is taught, instruction must place Eurocentric perspectives of world history under a critical lens, Zeng said. A more inclusive U.S. She didn’t stop.

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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

History books teach us that civilization arose with the Neolithic Revolution when hunter-gatherers first settled down because of the discovery of agriculture. Did civilization arise before religion or did religion arise before civilization? Settled life then led to cities, writing, and religion.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

While general education classrooms at Covina High School in this town in the Valley east of Los Angeles were stocked with algebra and geometry books, Parry was given a book that covered only basic math. Neither used the same books as the general education classes; nor were they designed to prepare students for college.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2018

When students are virtually immersed in material, they experience it in ways that can’t be conveyed by a picture in a book or line of text, VR proponents say. Sometimes technology is cool but not particularly educational, said Cornell teacher Andrew Erwin, whose sophomore world history class took a virtual field trip to Rome.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

Learning about the warming planet left her feeling like she “was being suffocated,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

That suggestion is based on data collected from millions of other consumers and used to spot trends (a reader who likes history books might also be interested in historical fiction). But little data analysis can help the student learn something about her reading habits: Is she more likely to read more pages in the morning?

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World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 14, 2022

What compromises must an artist make that a historian writing an article or book might not have to think about or might not accept? Consider the existing archaeological periodizations of the Americas as well as the effects on Native peoples today What does historical reconstruction art offer that more traditional academic output might not?

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Rosie the History Teacher

DECEMBER 14, 2019

My 9th grade US History class is finishing up the World War I unit and they have learned so much! I focus on the US involvement in the war and students will learn about global perspectives in their World History class in 10th grade.

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Leah Cleary

JULY 28, 2024

I’ll share practical strategies from the book The Writing Revolution and introduce sentence imitation exercises from my own program, Writing Blocks , to help your secondary students become strong writers one sentence at a time. Crafting sentences is a skill at the heart of all types of writing, from essays to research papers.

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4QM Teaching

MAY 7, 2023

We did some work for a public school in an urban district that was having trouble when their fifth graders were reading a book set in the Great Depression and literally had no idea about the context for the story.) If we want students to learn “reading” we should actually teach them history. But that’s a different blog post.

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Rosie the History Teacher

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

I brought in a variety of books to start filling my shelves, organized a few files and my desk drawers, and attempted to come up with a layout to fit giant, heavy tables, computer chairs, and my projector cart. I was teaching World History and we were studying ancient civilizations at the beginning of the year.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

Again, I point at them daily in my US History and Civics classes. World Flags – You may also love displaying flags from around the world if you teach World History or Current World Issues. I use these super strong magnet shelves to showcase books related to our current unit from my classroom library.

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

It is an open-access academic journal with essays, roundtables, and book reviews. The website includes a section of new books about revolutions. These reviews are a good way for us teachers to learn about new research and even some revolutions we do not teach in AP World. For example, Elena A.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

History I classes, I had them complete the Zinn Education Project activity “ How We Remember.” I had read Clint Smith’s book last year and was blown away by how the history is handled at many of the highlighted locations and his extreme attention to detail.

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

If you're looking for more great free worksheets for your classroom, you can also download a free 56-page reading comprehension packet for Jason Reynolds' US History book Stamped here. In addition to the US History curriculum , there are also similar curricula available for World History and American Government / Civics.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 9, 2023

On April 6, the department gave approval to only 19 of the books but then worked for the past month to get publishers to update their texts. history and world history courses. Eventually, many of the rejected books were approved after making some changes.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

That year, books by two Black women authors were removed from the ninth-grade English curriculum, and one unit of English instruction, “Dreams and Oppressions,” was changed to remove the word oppressions from its title, reframing the course to focus on personal obstacles rather than systemic discrimination. Then there was the curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It also means schools doing more to emphasize the importance of values like curiosity and empathy, and offering lessons that provide “mirrors and windows” for all students to see and understand the many contributions to world history and cultures of those like themselves, and those different from themselves.

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