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.

K-12 312

K-12 Primary Sources Archiving American History 312

Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

Discussion of primary documents. Historic locations. We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. During the seminar, the teachers discuss primary documents on the seminar topic with the guidance of a scholar, who acts as the seminar leader. A supportive and engaged group of educators.

Historic Sites 127

Historic Sites Museum American History Heritage 127

Teaching American History

AUGUST 27, 2024

Discussion of primary documents. Historic locations. We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. During the seminar, the teachers discuss primary documents on the seminar topic with the guidance of a scholar, who acts as the seminar leader. A supportive and engaged group of educators.

Historic Sites 52

Historic Sites Museum American History Professional Development 52

Students of History

JANUARY 3, 2023

For US History, that can be reading (or even listening to) this short article on the stock market crash of 1929 and then organizing the important parts of the article into their interactive notebook: This allows students to be hands on with their learning and easily combine a digital resource with a paper/pencil activity.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Historic Sites Teaching Primary Sources 52

Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

George Hawkins , a 2019 graduate of TAH’s Master of Arts with a Specialization in Teaching American History and Government (MASTAHG) program , was named South Dakota Teacher of the Year in October. Moreover, any realistic account of history covers economic and financial factors. He did his student teaching in a traditional classroom.

Teaching 52

Teaching Project-Based Learning American History Historic Sites 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In Norfolk, Virginia, the juniors and seniors enrolled in an African American history class taught by Ed Allison were working on their capstone projects, using nearby Fort Monroe, the site where the first enslaved Africans landed in 1619, as a jumping off point to explore their family history.

History 98

History American History Teaching K-12 98

Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

History students. 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.

History 52

History Teaching Social Studies Middle School 52