Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The next school year, she was asked to teach not only the regular-level geography course but also AP Human Geography and World History. The next fall, Livingston took a job teaching civics and government at a public middle school. He told her about the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) at Ashland University.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

That means a family of four with two children survived on $24,008, the income level at which a family is considered to be extremely poor by the federal government. Department of Health and Human Services, at current funding levels for the Child Care and Development Block Grant, only one out of 10 eligible children will get assistance.

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Teaching American History

JULY 9, 2024

Ohio House members from both sides of the aisle took turns reading the Declaration from its opening, “When in the course of human events,” through its closing pledge of “our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor,” along with the names of its signatories. The reading typifies Brennan’s creative approach to public service.

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American History Civics History Government 52

Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In the follow-up lesson, students explore primary sources that reveal key outcomes of the Reconstruction era. government. government.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 16, 2024

Those ideas birthed what I would say is the greatest nation in human history. We need such discussion if, as Federalist 1 puts it, we want a government based on reflection and choice rather than accident and force.” All of those sources show Jefferson viewing slavery as immoral and destructive to both races.”

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Primary Sources American History History Government 98

Zinn Education Project

JUNE 14, 2024

Subversives: Stories from the Red Scare By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca In this mixer lesson, students meet 27 different targets of government harassment and repression to analyze why disparate individuals might have become targets of the same campaign, determining what kind of threat they posed in the view of the U.S. government.

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Primary Sources Government History Humanities 58

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. from the Pittsburg Courier and the Double V campaign.

History Education 52

History Education History Education Social Studies 52

Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Czarnecki, a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, wrote the paper for a “Great Texts” course taught by Professor Stephen Tootle on John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Completing the MAHG program, she stepped down from her role as Dean so as to also teach courses in US history and government. “I

Social Studies 98

Social Studies Research Archiving American History 98

4QM Teaching

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

When we do a full Question Two inquiry lab in the classroom we usually work from primary source documents, especially in the upper grades. Whatever the source, the 4QM interpretation process has three steps. How does the source itself support these interpretations?

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

They shared stories of wolves in sheep’s clothing, covered by titles of police officer, government official, social worker, friend, or teacher, who had in some way or another sabotaged their family’s safety or livelihood. It is a powerful lesson that gets to the humanity of the enslaved and helps students really engage with the subject.

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Moler's Musing

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

We started by wrapping up our government voice inquiry with a Thick Slide summary and fast Gimkit reviews, then dived into Sketch and Tell-o on Loyalist perspectives and Enlightenment ideas with Parafly paraphrasing exercises. This made the Loyalist primary source lesson from the Digital Inquiry group a perfect choice.

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Primary Sources Government History Human Rights 103

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

Like the majority of parents in her income bracket, Haskins gets no government help covering that cost. In fact, the federal government provided child care subsidies to just one in six children eligible to receive them in 2015, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. All told, 1.3

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Government Primary Sources Elementary School Humanities 136

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

Most of those gains were lost, however, in 1877 when the federal government pulled troops out of the South. Once the federal government left, a backlash began. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Many states require lessons on the Civil War as part of U.S.

Teaching 107

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

How Red Lines Built White Wealth A lesson that reveals one origin of the modern racial wealth gap how government policies segregated housing, with dire consequences for African Americans. government. government.

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Social Justice Primary Sources History Civics 98

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

And so every child today gets taught that modern slavery is human trafficking, it’s a crime against humanity. But certainly for most of the history of the West these were not considered crimes against humanity. And so Ron DeSantis is constantly beating his chest about American freedom. They went nowhere. So, stuck on stupid.

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Primary Sources History Economics K-12 98

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

I am co-facilitating today’s class with high school teacher, Prentiss Charney Fellow , and great all around human being, T. And so every child today gets taught that modern slavery is human trafficking, it’s a crime against humanity. Whitaker, who has been part of this series for a long time. It’s good to have you with us.

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