Political Science Now

JULY 24, 2024

Colleen Shogan is the 11th Archivist of the United States, and is the first woman to lead the National Archives and Records Administration. As the nation’s record keeper, Shogan is responsible for preserving, protecting and sharing the history of the United States. Senate and as a senior executive at the Library of Congress.

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ACRE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In the classroom, educators can explore a variety of Constitutional resources with learners by reading primary sources, reviewing changes to the Constitution throughout American History, and analyzing historical arguments relating to the founding of the United States and the Constitution today. Since its ratification, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

On Twitter, users add lessons and resources to the #CharlottesvilleSyllabus and #CharlottesvilleCurriculum pages; everything from identity charts to readings on the history of white supremacy to conflict resolution activities. What was troubling enough as 20 th century history is happening in present time. history standards ?

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 1, 2024

Woodson Institute, the Social Science Research Council, and the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. He has been awarded fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the University of Virginia’s Carter G.

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Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies with the Kansas State Department of Education. Nathan’s past students have created and led several civic and historical preservation projects. So, you need to design a CBA? You have an idea, check.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Now my students know that if I am wearing my BLM shirt or Black History Matters shirt at school it is not a performative act — it means that they can hold me accountable to what I have done in and out of class to show that I am living up to that belief. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity.

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C3 Teachers

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I thought about how interesting it would be for students to investigate how their school fits into the story of the United States, and I started to wonder how inquiry could help my students explore their community’s histories. Community history is a natural avenue for inquiry. oral histories). oral histories).

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

and global history classes are often crunched for time by the end of the school year and struggle to fit in discussions of any events that happened after the end of the Cold War in the 1990s. It’s going from the front pages of the newspaper to the history books.”. But even then, teachers of traditional U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Today, courses at all grade levels include Indigenous history, numeracy, land-based science and language classes in Keres, Lakota, Navajo, Tiwa, Spanish and Zuni. Discussions of tribal culture were limited to a few isolated craft projects during a history unit and inaccurate portrayals of Indians at the “First Thanksgiving,” he recalled.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. The teacher-led rallies received national media attention, providing a valuable counter narrative to the oversized coverage of the well-funded anti-CRT movement. In Florida, Gov.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Principal Faculty Joshua Brown is professor of history emeritus and former executive director of the American Social History Project and professor of history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University. He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

No one is confused about why we have public fire departments or libraries: We all understand their mission for the public good. Related: COLUMN: Marjory Stoneman Douglas students give legislators a civics lesson. But the problem is not just a lack of academic content about civics and history. Not so much. Not so well.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Related: A padlocked drinking fountain, tree stump seats and a caution-taped library: See how the coronavirus has transformed schools. With our curriculum, I definitely think we need to highlight more Black voices across the board, across all of our classes, outside of Black history month,” she said.

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

This week’s post comes from Thomas Fulbright, current KCSS president and history teacher at Hope Street Academy, a public charter school in Topeka since 2008. Thomas intends “to spend my entire life convincing them how exciting and important history is.” His bio picture is daughter Claire and Thomas meeting President Lincoln.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2017

Just as it’s easier for students to learn French by speaking it in France, we need civics, literature and science to be practiced in communities rocked by nonsensical violence. history when the levee system broke in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, could stand to produce a few engineers from the hood.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

It’s a natural fit for a school community whose mission includes cultivating and cherishing “an environment that supports the academic, social-emotional, creative and civic learning” of all students. High school students create story maps to deepen their own learning and help others, in history, science, and even English literature.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

A student walks past the Bender Library on the American University campus in Washington, D.C. Students work on an assignment in a high school civics class. Eighty-four percent of students go on to attend the colleges from which they took their dual-enrollment classes, the CCRC study found.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Last fall, after the university’s admissions team worked to craft a more intentional recruiting plan, officials say they enrolled the most diverse freshman class in LSU’s nearly 160-year history. The 60-year-old Middleton Library has suffered water damage from a leak. Casey Parks/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Rutgers University hosts a branch of the county public library. To commemorate its 30th anniversary, Campus Compact has asked its members to develop “civic action plans” by March reaffirming their commitment to what it calls the public purposes of higher education. Duquesne, in Pittsburgh, runs a community pharmacy.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Conversation with Sonja Czarnecki Sonja Czarnecki, 2022 MAHG Graduate “In order to understand history, you have to do history,” Sonja Czarnecki insists. Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. I felt like I’d won my own History Day contest!”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

The subject line read: “Living history.”. history teacher scrambles to explain unprecedented attacks and desecration of democracy. The intercom and phones weren’t set up yet, so a teacher came to Patrie’s room to tell her everyone was gathering in the library. They were discussing an email she’d sent the night before.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

With fewer and fewer undergraduates studying English, history and philosophy in college, the site for such conversations may be shifting away from campus. Finn sees civic value in inviting adults who may disagree into constructive conversation around new ideas. “We These three virtual seminar programs draw from different libraries.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

You cannot attend public schools, visit the public library, eat in restaurants, enjoy public parks, go to churches or attend movie theaters. We must insist that the American History we teach in our schools includes discussions of the systemic racism that has defined and divided our country. Imagine a country where you are a slave.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Library of Congress, U.S. data show just how little students across America have actually learned about the nation’s history, civics and geography. Forty years later, racial discrimination and violence are still far too common across America, due in part to our history- and civics-impoverished K-12 education landscape.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

When the AP United States history students at Aragon High School in San Mateo California, scanned the professionally designed pages of www.minimumwage.com , most concluded that it was a solid, unbiased source of facts and analysis. “I Northport, N.Y., Photo: Janis Shachter. They got duped.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

— Inside a high-ceilinged library at Northridge High School here, seniors are typing on 16-year-old laptops donated by a local Rotary Club. We’re doing everything we can,” says Mr. Norton, as the seniors in the library close their balky laptops and head to class. Photo: Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Keene at MAHG 2021 Teaching American History has recently published World War I and the 1920s: Core Documents , a collection curated by Professor Jennifer D. Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. For Europeans, World War I was devastating.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2021

Credit: Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images. history, I have had a growing unease in recent years about the relevance of my vocation. Related: OPINION: After shocking election, New York history teachers tries to alleviate ‘despair, anxiety or indignation ’. I scrolled through my memory for comparisons.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

At Teaching American History, we know teachers are hungry for resources that help their students understand the nuances of American civic behavior. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-113102. Library of Congress, LC-USF34- 036686-D. Mormon pioneers about to enter Salt Lake Valley, July 24, 1847.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

Concurrently, civil rights activists in Mississippi participated in a series of “Wade-Ins” to integrate public beaches, “Read-Ins” to desegregate public libraries, and “Pray-Ins” at all-white churches. History this Week. The History Channel. Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University. April 2020. Dittmer, John. Jackson, MS.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2022

Both Manual students have a history of confronting authority: They appeared before the Kentucky state legislature in February to testify against a bill on history instruction that the students said would whitewash the past, deny free speech and erase marginalized people. A haunting feeling overcame me.

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