Government History Education Primary Sources 
Doing Social Studies
JANUARY 27, 2022
TJ Warsnak and Derek Schutte Exploring Strategies for Analyzing Primary Sources Erika Lowery Don’t forget to register! Using Online Geo Tools to Enhance Your Instruction and Make Your Kids Smarter Glenn Wiebe 3 Guys and a Textbook: A Lighthearted Look At Increasing Engagement (for mature audiences only!) Hope to see you there!
Dangerously Irrelevant
MAY 31, 2017
The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics.
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Zinn Education Project
JANUARY 8, 2024
History class I teach a lesson about the African American experience in WWII using primary sources. They also said our government was two-faced: Talking about soldiers working together against the common enemy but having segregated quarters for the Black and white soldiers. Excerpt below and the full class here.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 3, 2023
government, and only 29 percent said they had a teacher whose primary responsibility is teaching civics. As a country, we have not invested enough in teaching the very fundamental knowledge, skills and dispositions young people need to be informed and engaged participants in our bold experiment in self-government.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 20, 2016
The news literacy initiative is based in the Stanford History Education Group that Wineburg founded in 2002 to train teachers how to use primary sources and help students critically evaluate historical claims. My students are all about social media.
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