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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University. We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University.

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Apply Now for NEH Summer Institutes 2024

Zinn Education Project

Each year, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funds summer institutes for teachers. These are tuition-free opportunities for K–12 educators to study a variety of humanities topics. The institutes featured below are a few of the ones that could be of interest to people’s history educators.

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Challenging Anti-History Education Laws: Teachers Receive 14,000 Books on African Americans During WWII

Zinn Education Project

He writes, “Nearly everything about the war — the start and end dates, geography, vital military roles, the home front, and international implications — looks different when viewed from the African American perspective.” Delmont’s book asks readers to rethink what they know about the war by centering Black protagonists.

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Elevating Social Studies with High-Quality Instructional Materials

TCI

According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence. This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy.