NCHE

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Im reaching out today as a fellow educator and historian, and as Executive Director of the National Council for History Education, to affirm your professionalism and the importance of your role as history educators. As you know, history is not the past its the study of the past. photographer.

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Moler's Musing

MARCH 8, 2025

One of the biggest challenges in history education is engaging students in meaningful analysis while encouraging collaboration and critical thinking. Image & Source Analysis (8 Parts) A picture is worth a thousand wordsbut only if students know how to analyze it! Sourcing where their information comes from.

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Primary Sources History Critical Thinking History Education 52

ASHP CML

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The ASHP staff knows that such changes dont emerge overnight; as we look backward and ahead, we remain committed to making our work as history educators help generate greater understanding of the current historical moment. This week, researcher Carli Snyder shares a primary source. Click here to read the poem.)

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Primary Sources History Education History Research 40

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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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

pic.twitter.com/0ADtH573Jf — Don Dumas (@don_dumas) December 5, 2022 I received Matthew Delmont’s book, Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad , from the Zinn Education Project. History class I teach a lesson about the African American experience in WWII using primary sources.

History Education 52

History Education History Education Social Studies 52

Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

History I strive to make sure my students understand that so many of the events in “history” were not that long ago, and so much of what has happened in our nation continues to shape what happens today. As a culminating event, I use the Black Panther mixer lesson from the Zinn Education Project.

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