Teaching American History

APRIL 1, 2025

In honor of womens history month, we bring you a reading selection that highlights the upheaval American society experienced in the 1920s as regards gender roles. I never learned from either parent whether I was male or female, or that there was such a division in the human species. Read more Want more womens history materials?

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Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2025

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesias Riau Archipelago in search of Homo erectus remains, but uncovers how environmental devastation has erased much of the regions history. erectus , but theres limited physical evidence documenting their presence. erectus ancestors would have crossed.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 15, 2013

Students that participate in this experience travel to Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic as they learn firsthand about one of the most traumatic events in human history. Stipel took the group to the former Lostice synagogue and gave them the history of the Jews in Lostice. Lostice is a town of about 3,000 people.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“That’s why good teaching about citizenship involves students in an intentional study of human behavior.” For Little, government class entails “constitutional study and human behavior study side by side.” After Little’s students read an excerpt of Federalist 51, he asks them whether Madison’s view of human nature is correct.

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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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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Why is Lincolns Fragment on the Constitution and Union one of our favorite documents? This document is short enough to be used in younger classrooms, but its profound enough to be worth discussing with older students as well. The Constitution is the silver frame around the more important document from our Founding.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A recent study, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , suggests these plaques may represent one of humanity's earliest attempts at recording genealogy—a non-verbal precursor to modern ancestry documentation. eyes, noses) weakens this claim.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

Cooking is often viewed as a significant turning point in human evolution. It not only provided the extra calories needed to support larger brains 1 but also transformed the way early humans interacted with their environment. Unlike other species, humans are biologically adapted to consume cooked food.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This new analysis, published in the journal Antiquity 1 , sheds unsettling light on the darker side of prehistoric human behavior. ” The Scene of the Massacre The story begins in the 1970s, when excavators first uncovered over 3,000 human bones and fragments deep within the Charterhouse Warren shaft. Examples of cranial trauma.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

But how did ancient humans experience and describe these feelings? By analyzing one million words of Akkadian cuneiform, researchers unearthed fascinating connections between emotional states and specific body parts, offering fresh insights into human emotional experience through time.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

Nestled within the limestone cliffs of Uluzzo Bay in southern Italy, Grotta della Lea has remained largely untouched since it was first documented in the 1970s. That lack of disturbance makes it an exceptional place to study how humans occupied the region during the final millennia of the Upper Paleolithic.

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TeachThought

JUNE 18, 2024

Explore biological systems and their functions in human biology. Learn to document and present scientific findings accurately. History Examples of student learning goals for history learners include: Analyze the causes and effects of significant historical events. Learn to write comprehensive history essays.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 31, 2025

Having hoped to bring the exhibit to campus for the past number of years, we were finally able to do so after securing a small grant from our campus Center for the Latino/a and Latin American Studies Center (CLLAS), and with collaboration from the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History. Students shared emergent understandings of U.S.

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Anthropology.net

JULY 30, 2024

The deserts of northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula have long been the focus of archaeological research, revealing their roles as cradles of early human civilization and migration routes through so-called “green corridors.” The Narabeb site showing location of former lake. Middle Stone Age lithics from Narabeb.

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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. For example, a passage on farming might make more sense if you know something about how plants grow.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 16, 2018

The process of making has been in our DNA since the dawn of human civilization to create tools for hunting and survival. With all the hoopla in regards to maker education and makerspaces I wanted to take a minute to share that this is not a new concept. Has it evolved – definitely!

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The emphasis on a human-centric approach underscores the commitment to cultivating a balanced perspective on AI integration. Educators are encouraged to view AI not merely as a technological advancement but as a tool to enhance and augment the human experience. EdSurge: How have you incorporated the teaching of AI in the classroom?

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Anthropology.net

JULY 18, 2024

Cut marks on ancient fossils have been identified as evidence of human exploitation of large mammals in Argentina more than 20,000 years ago, according to a study published on July 17, 2024, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE 1 by Mariano Del Papa of the National University of La Plata, Argentina, and his colleagues.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 11, 2025

The site was first unearthed in 2009 when archaeologists noticed human bones protruding from the eroded banks of a stream near the fortress ruins. Some scholars suspect it might even be Shouxiangcheng , a fortress documented in Chinese records and built in 104 BCE during a Han campaign against the Xiongnu. Cambridge University Press.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Archaeological discoveries in East Timor’s Laili rock shelter have unveiled evidence 1 of ancient human habitation dating back approximately 44,000 years. This finding, led by an international team of archaeologists, contributes significantly to understanding the migration and adaptation patterns of early humans in Southeast Asia.

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

The crossing of Morgan’s men into Indiana is steeped in local history and well-remembered by local residents. Fortunately, however, I can direct you to the wonderfully descriptive Meade County History Museum in Brandenburg, a center of high-quality scholarship and research in this region.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

Before the soft-footed, domesticated Felis catus found its way into Chinese homes, another feline species occupied human settlements for thousands of years. Their findings suggest that leopard cats filled the niche of rodent control in human settlements long before domesticated cats arrived. One possibility is their temperament.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

They were the remains of animals deeply intertwined with the histories and cultures of Indigenous communities. “Even when they pass on, you still respect and honor them as non-human relatives. “Even when they pass on, you still respect and honor them as non-human relatives. “You care for horses.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

Below is a listing of some of activities that incorporated digital learning: In Mrs. Collentine’s Humanities class, students worked in the computer lab on researching the history of drama and theater in the culture of their own heritage.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

25, 2025 Studies Weekly Its often difficult to connect students to the real-world, real-time applications of events from history and the real people who lived them. The attacks on 9/11 affected millions of people, and informed much of the public policy in action today but for these children, that event is history. The primary source.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The prevailing narrative of how humanity came about seemed straightforward enough: In what is today Europe, the last Neanderthals bowed out as Homo sapiens began arriving on the continent around 40,000 to 45,000 years ago. Archaeological excavations at Mandrin Cave revealed the remains of both Neanderthals and modern humans.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

When MySpace lost 50 million songs during a server migration , it wasnt just a glitchit was a reshaping of independent music history, determined by infrastructure choices rather than cultural value. The ability to preserve history is a form of power, and that power is rarely in the hands of the public. But migration is never neutral.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Application of Archaeology Archaeology is the study of human past through material remains. archaeologists study past humans and societies primarily through their material remains – the buildings, tools, and other artifacts that constitute what is known as the material culture left over from former societies. How were those pots used?

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 8, 2025

Human Sacrifice in Pre-Columbian Ecuador While there is no definitive evidence that the Manteño regularly practiced human sacrifice, Spanish colonial records do contain descriptions of ritual killings among coastal Ecuadorian groups. History of the New World." Latin American Antiquity, 16 (2), 167-179. 1 Juengst, S.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It turns out my skillset helps map places and histories that are significant in Wajãpi Oral Traditions. Eventually tiring of humans’ complaints and requests, he left Earth to live in the sky. If humans had accepted the invitation, we would have arboreal agilities too. We just draw from different backgrounds.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

If AI-generated content can easily evade detection while human text is frequently misclassified, how effective are these detectors truly?” Low perplexity is a symptom of an AI generated text, while high perplexity is a sign of human writing. A normal document history should show every typo and sentence change as a student is writing.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Georgetown University’s Edunomics Lab documents the divergence between the growth of school staff and students. By the spring of 2023, school districts had amassed more staff than at any time in history, the Edunomics Lab calculated. See detailed graphs below. Other administrators are needed to manage federal grants.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Applicants should title their documents in the following way: “Last name_CV” and “Last name_Statement.” The Center for Premodern Studies (CPS) is the home for collaborative scholarship and outreach in the historical humanities and social sciences at the University of Minnesota.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Researchers delve into the earliest chapters of European settlement by investigating ancient skull fragments from Crimea, shedding light on the crucial role played by the first modern humans in shaping the continent's history. Genome sequences of 36,000- to 37,000-year-old modern humans at Buran-Kaya III in Crimea. Yanevich, A.,

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in my World History II class. I was finally satisfied with the plan I had for my 10th graders, when it hit me: none of this actually matters.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Wanting students to be able to ‘analyse, synthesise and evaluate’ information sounds like a reasonable goal,” writes Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. In the paper, Willingham traces the history of teaching critical thinking.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. This contrasts with local statistics that document high rates of violence against women in the broader region. An estimated “1.8

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