Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For a few hours, teachers can dive into the content of primary source documents through a discussion with colleagues facilitated by a scholar. This allows participants to prepare their thoughts and questions and join in the conversation to really get the meaning behind the documents.

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

While they're sometimes belittled, worksheets are an excellent tool for helping students analyze primary sources or better understand a historical event through a secondary source. DuBois "Returning Soldiers" from World War I Activity Vietnam War Pentagon Papers Primary Source Loving v.

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Teaching American History

JULY 9, 2024

He carried on this work while teaching government and an elective course in constitutional, civil and criminal law at Brecksville-Broadview High School. As a teacher, he appreciated Teaching American History’s free seminars featuring scholar-led discussion of primary documents.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The next fall, Livingston took a job teaching civics and government at a public middle school. He told her about the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) at Ashland University. When her middle school students asked, “Why do we need to learn about American government in the seventh grade?”

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Teaching American History

APRIL 16, 2024

Primary documents give us unexpected perspectives on history. Landen Schmeichel sees this often when using documents in his Advanced Placement US History course at Legacy High School in Bismarck, North Dakota. Liberty and Equality: Ideas That Shaped America Primary documents prompt reflection on powerful ideas.

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Students of History

AUGUST 12, 2021

These activities include: Sourcing documents Drag & drop timelines Analyzing primary and secondary sources Interpreting and inserting images Notetaking Comparing and contrasting topics 4. Refreshed Themes - each digital notebook set now has its own theme to match the unit.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

Child care, Gale explains, was essential to allowing these workers to do their jobs, and during the emergency phase of the pandemic, the federal government seemed to agree, sending between $30 and $34 per day per child of each essential worker directly to the providers who cared for them. Gale and children working at a raised garden bed.

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

I was very excited to have them reflect on these documents and then create letters to send to policy makers advising them on the situation. Based on the compelling arguments in those past documents, I was sure students would be suggesting that policy makers shut things down. For a copy of my lesson, follow this link.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

Students are suddenly eager to talk politics and government, but the hyper-partisan reality beyond school walls makes it hard to pull off these discussions in class. Johnson (on screen) overlooks the AP government class of Jo Boggess Phillips in Ripley, West Virginia Photo: Jo Boggess Phillips. President Lyndon B.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. We could engage in government simulations at GovGames or iCivics or Cyber Nations.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 14, 2024

Subversives: Stories from the Red Scare By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca In this mixer lesson, students meet 27 different targets of government harassment and repression to analyze why disparate individuals might have become targets of the same campaign, determining what kind of threat they posed in the view of the U.S. government.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Czarnecki, a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, wrote the paper for a “Great Texts” course taught by Professor Stephen Tootle on John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress.

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4QM Teaching

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

When we do a full Question Two inquiry lab in the classroom we usually work from primary source documents, especially in the upper grades. Whatever the source, the 4QM interpretation process has three steps. How does the source itself support these interpretations?

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The next day, we dove into the document analysis activity compiled by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. After going over key terms and background information (as suggested by Wolfe-Rocca in the PDF version of the activity), I arranged my students in groups of four and they investigated six of the included documents.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

Most of those gains were lost, however, in 1877 when the federal government pulled troops out of the South. Once the federal government left, a backlash began. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Many states require lessons on the Civil War as part of U.S.

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Teaching American History

MAY 14, 2024

Once considered to be the great American contribution to constitutional government—being governed by our own consent through elected, representative lawmakers—Congress is now the most disliked part of our political system. Judging by its approval ratings over the past decade, Congress has lost the support of the American people.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

With documentation and clear explanations, Muhammad challenged prevailing stereotypes about race and crime. When Black people grasp the reins of their citizenship, it is a fundamental threat to white Southerners, and increasingly becomes a source of unease and discomfort amongst Northerners. They went nowhere. So, stuck on stupid.

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Students of History

JANUARY 25, 2022

The Jim Crow Era was when racial segregation was legalized, African Americans were disenfranchised, and white supremacists controlled governments across the South. In 1898, furious white supremacists conspired to fix the election and then formed a mob that overthrew Wilmington's legitimately elected biracial fusionist government at gunpoint.

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