Teaching American History

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Teaching American History has recently published World War I and the 1920s: Core Documents , a collection curated by Professor Jennifer D. Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. appeared first on Teaching American History. Held, John, Jr.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 8, 2024

They relied on dialectal data from over 725,000 respondents of a dialect quiz by the German magazine Der Spiegel, along with historical linguistic data from the 19th-century “Atlas of the German Language.” In other work, he explores the implications of far-right parties in government. ” Their findings are striking.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I can’t imagine teaching civics and government without political cartoons—they are essential to the subject. So here I’ve outlined some activity ideas for using them to help you teach five key government concepts. They make the best entry point for introducing concepts and diving deeper into diverse viewpoints on political issues.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 1, 2024

Her response: It made me question what I thought I knew about history. Abby MacPhail is the author of the lesson, Dirty Oil and Shovel-Ready Jobs: A Role Play on Tar Sands and the Keystone XL Pipeline , originally published in the Rethinking Schools magazine.

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TeachThought

OCTOBER 10, 2024

In Our Time This podcast teaches you a bit more about the history of scientific thought, as well as history, religion, and culture. AMNH Podcast The American Museum of Natural History hosts a monthly podcast series. AMNH Podcast The American Museum of Natural History hosts a monthly podcast series.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Aside from the obvious differences in choice between the expansion of education service providers and a woman’s right to control her reproductive choices and her body, DeVos clearly needs to learn that the Republican understanding of words like choice , freedom , liberty differs significantly for black people with our history of slavery.

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Life and Landscapes

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

This is “Extraordinary Voyages, t he Magazine of the North American Jules Verne Society” , Volume 31, Number 2, February 2025 It includes my article about “Charette and Jules Verne.” The wide century surrounding the 1800s was a remarkably unstable period in French history. He was 32 years old.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Rather than trumpeting the cause of self-government, Douglas’s doctrine of popular sovereignty was its death knell. Only adherence to the self-evident truth that all human beings were equal could save popular sovereignty—self-government—for all. Composite image of Abraham Lincoln (left) and Stephen A.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

However, the thefts continued after the woman identified as the culprit left the sorority, and she would later recant her confession, attributing her suspicious physiological reactions during the test to a repressed history of sexual abuse. In later life, Larson would turn against his invention, calling it a “ Frankenstein’s monster.”

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Sayre Professor of Government and Political Science at Columbia University. Dr. Hamilton was active in the Association governance and on numerous committees during the 1970s-1990s. Hamilton , Columbia University Magazine Charles V. Read the full article here.

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

” ( Credit : Ernst Haeckel: The History of Creation (1876), translation revised by E. The Kumari Kandam theory remained in history textbooks in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state until the 1980s. Interbreeding with animals eventually produced ape-like ancestors to some of the human races.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 26, 2024

In April 2023, the New York Times Magazine published a profile of her decision to leave the Democratic Party. Included in the intertextual field I analyze below are Sinema’s border outfit, her resignation letter, her understanding of her Senate seat as “exceptional,” the history of the dispossession of the American West, and Arizona politics.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

15 Women from World History Who Made a Difference Mar. 7, 2022 By Studies Weekly World history is full of remarkable women who changed the way we live today. During Women’s History Month or any time of the year, their stories can inspire your students to dream big and make the difference they want to see in the world.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 18, 2025

In a magazine she began publishing in 1914, The Woman Rebel , Sanger wrote: “Is there any reason why women should not receive clean, harmless, scientific knowledge on how to prevent conception? The post Margaret Sanger: The Woman Rebel appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Corporations and governments alike now routinely create, purchase, and exchange user data—and not just in the Global North. PC Magazine concisely defines user data as “any data a user creates or owns,” but this flaunts the crux of user data’s ethical quagmire: to what extent do any users own their data?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

I was beyond shocked that somebody from our state government was asking what books were available in our school libraries. The five members of the school board who voted to ban the book did not have children in any public schools governed by the district. “I was actually at home. My superintendent forwarded it to me.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

When the government-backed Home Owner’s Loan Corporation developed color-coded maps to sort out who could receive mortgage lending, blacks who lived in the red sections of the map were not given loans. To blame teachers, parents and district bureaucracy (especially when they are black) is to ignore the history of how schools became depressed.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Newsweek magazine dubbed the city “ Murder Town USA ” in 2014. Related: Governments are spending billions more on education, and it’s making inequality worse. In Delaware, the school funding formula is more than 70 years old, and no one, not even the Democrats who control much of the state government, are eager to change it.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

No doubt, there is a long history of violence in the region — including the Oct. One cannot understand this tragedy without acknowledging its history. Students need to examine how the current crisis is shaped in large part by settler colonial history, and the role played by world powers. government.

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The Conversation - Politics + Society

JUNE 17, 2025

State Department has listed Iran as a “ state sponsor of terrorism ,” alleging the Iranian government provides terrorists with training, money and weapons. Two weeks later, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile in Iraq and led a drive to abolish the monarchy and proclaim an Islamic government. Since 1984, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Recently, the right-wing magazine The Federalist published a warning to parents in the form of a conspiratorial, unhinged and poorly supported op-ed titled, “ If The Left Ends Parent Rights, You Might Need A License To Raise Your Own Child.” government created these policies. government created these policies.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

The crowd cheered at the idea that people like them — mostly white, mostly male — were the true heroes of American history. High school social studies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence. history and democracy depends on where you live, however.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

This directive would have affected about 75,000 people found mentally incapable of managing their financial affairs, according to an analysis by Fortune magazine. Related: When black history isn’t relegated to a single month. Trump also rolled back other rules that attempted to define who exactly is too incompetent to buy guns.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. I appreciated hearing about the history of how data has been (mis)used to construct a narrative of Black criminality.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

military is confronting the biggest security risk in global history; climate change. At that moment in time, Joe Biden was still the President of the United States, mentions of climate change had not yet been scrubbed from government websites, and outright climate denialism was still not on the presidential agenda. Where will they go?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In 2008, the school helped pilot UNESCO’s “Breaking the Silence: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Education Project,” a resource for educators that addresses the history and scope of slavery. Murphy has regularly escorted small groups of students to UNESCO-sponsored programs such as the 2012 human rights conference in Winnipeg, Canada.

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