Teaching American History

AUGUST 6, 2024

Staff and faculty members at Teaching American History have heard from our teacher partners that they want nonpartisan election resources that elevate classroom discourse beyond political bickering and horse race coverage. 2024 marks the 60 th time that Americans have gone to the polls to elect a new president.

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ED Surge

JULY 21, 2022

Dear Bonni, I'll be teaching a course on the history of Ireland later this year. Your pursuit of this kind of assignment reminds me of an interview I did for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast with Ken Bain , author of "What the Best College Teachers Do."

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Civics for All of US

MAY 12, 2023

Teaching the Bill of Rights for Educators Katie Munn Fri, 05/12/2023 - 08:50 Body A virtual professional development workshop for K–12 educators. This online workshop will explore how to engage learners of all grade levels in the active exploration of primary sources that teach about the rights embodied in the Bill of Rights.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

To give students insight into the work of historians, Czarnecki assigns research projects in all of the courses she teaches at Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, Kansas. Since all of the projects must incorporate primary sources, students learn how to access online archives such as the Hathi Trus t and newspapers.org.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Amy Livingston never expected to find a vocation in teaching America’s story. She never expected to teach at all. When a position teaching geography to ninth graders at a private high school opened, she took it. The next fall, Livingston took a job teaching civics and government at a public middle school.

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Doing Social Studies

JANUARY 27, 2022

This network of professionals has helped transform my teaching practice and feeds my teacher soul. TJ Warsnak and Derek Schutte Exploring Strategies for Analyzing Primary Sources Erika Lowery Don’t forget to register! One way we do that is to co-host a yearly social studies conference. just a reminder. It’s free !

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

Child care, Gale explains, was essential to allowing these workers to do their jobs, and during the emergency phase of the pandemic, the federal government seemed to agree, sending between $30 and $34 per day per child of each essential worker directly to the providers who cared for them.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

The Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History (TEAACH) Act was signed into law in July 2021 with wide bipartisan support, amending the state’s school code to ensure that all Illinois public school students learn about the contributions Asian Americans have made to the United States. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

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ACRE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In the classroom, educators can explore a variety of Constitutional resources with learners by reading primary sources, reviewing changes to the Constitution throughout American History, and analyzing historical arguments relating to the founding of the United States and the Constitution today. Government: PP.2.USG.2

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

While they're sometimes belittled, worksheets are an excellent tool for helping students analyze primary sources or better understand a historical event through a secondary source. They also all assess studies skills like cause-and-effect, interpreting sources, understanding timelines, and working on map skills.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Teaching American History provides various free resources for American history and government teachers, including our popular seminars , multi-day seminars , and extensive database of original source documents. You may hope to find a new document that will freshen your approach to teaching a particular topic.

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Teaching American History

JUNE 18, 2024

And that means the pinnacle of TAH’s professional development for teachers has arrived as well: our Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program at Ashland University in Ashland, OH. The four questions cover a variety of topics, eras, or themes in American history and government. Summer has arrived!

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Students of History

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

They took a long while to create, but I now have packets for every unit in Civics/Government , World History , and US History. There's always an eye-catching image as well as a set of standards-based Essential Questions to guide your teaching of the unit. If I'm ever out sick, students can just work on their packets.

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Teaching American History

MAY 14, 2024

Once considered to be the great American contribution to constitutional government—being governed by our own consent through elected, representative lawmakers—Congress is now the most disliked part of our political system. If we do not understand how consent of the governed works, and how it should work, we risk losing it.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In the next few days, those who have completed all coursework for the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program may begin writing their qualifying exams, so as to graduate with their degrees this December. Yet discussing these documents in the interactive online class sessions energized their teaching practice.

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Students of History

JANUARY 25, 2022

For years, I ended my unit on Reconstruction by teaching about the controversial election of 1876 leading to the Compromise of 1877. The Jim Crow Era was when racial segregation was legalized, African Americans were disenfranchised, and white supremacists controlled governments across the South. Following the Jan.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

One-Day seminars are the easiest way to engage with Teaching American History in person. For a few hours, teachers can dive into the content of primary source documents through a discussion with colleagues facilitated by a scholar. The post Preparing for a One Day Seminar appeared first on Teaching American History.

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C3 Teachers

JULY 1, 2024

One of my favorite things to do in my classroom is to use the thinking processes of the sources themselves to help frame tasks. Many US teachers are familiar with teaching the tragic process of Native American removal under the Jackson administration in the first half of the 1800s. Let me explain.

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4QM Teaching

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The Four Question Method wasn’t explicitly designed to teach civics, but we think it does a really good job of it. In this post I’ll explain why teaching Question Two, “What were they thinking?” When we do a full Question Two inquiry lab in the classroom we usually work from primary source documents, especially in the upper grades.

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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. When the federal government overhauled America’s welfare system 20 years ago, TANF replaced the former cash-assistance program. Photo: Della Hasselle. Photo: Della Hasselle.

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Teaching American History

JULY 9, 2024

Sean Brennan Brennan, a frequent participant in Teaching American History seminars , has long promoted civic education and civil cooperation at the local and state level. He carried on this work while teaching government and an elective course in constitutional, civil and criminal law at Brecksville-Broadview High School.

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C3 Teachers

JULY 1, 2024

One of my favorite things to do in my classroom is to use the thinking processes of the sources themselves to help frame tasks. Many US teachers are familiar with teaching the tragic process of Native American removal under the Jackson administration in the first half of the 1800s. Let me explain.

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

What I found during my research to create the lesson drove home the whole purpose of why we teach history and why I teach history the way I do. One student’s letter clearly showed their frustration with social distancing when they wrote, In conclusion, you should support Government restrictions due to the Coronavirus.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 8, 2024

government abroad, while people living in the U.S. When I ran into this unexpected barrier, I decided to work backwards; I was going to let the sources guide me instead of the supporting questions determining my research. It didn’t take long to find what I was looking for: music was used as propaganda by the U.S.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 8, 2024

government abroad, while people living in the U.S. When I ran into this unexpected barrier, I decided to work backwards; I was going to let the sources guide me instead of the supporting questions determining my research. It didn’t take long to find what I was looking for: music was used as propaganda by the U.S.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 14, 2025

Despite the relentless political attacks on antiracist education, traffic to the Zinn Education Project website continues to grow a clear indication that educators and communities remain deeply committed to teaching the truth. This surge is especially powerful given the dangerous climate for educators who teach honestly about Palestine.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 16, 2024

We need such discussion if, as Federalist 1 puts it, we want a government based on reflection and choice rather than accident and force.” This collection, I would argue, is the preeminent source for primary documents that are accessible to students. And the online versions are free.” I had students read a chapter a week.

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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. More than half ( 53 percent ) are eligible for some form of government benefit.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

government. I often weave these historical narratives into content through primary sources. I love using primary sources and personal narratives to make history more relevant for my students, but that takes second place to tangible pieces of history like my family artifacts, such as my great-grandfather's World War I uniform.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2023

Other findings from the national exam, known as the Nation’s ‘Report Card,’ show that dedicated resources for teaching civics results in better student performance, but that those resources are sorely lacking: Only 49 percent of students who took the NAEP test said they have a class that is mainly focused on civics or U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

Students are suddenly eager to talk politics and government, but the hyper-partisan reality beyond school walls makes it hard to pull off these discussions in class. Johnson (on screen) overlooks the AP government class of Jo Boggess Phillips in Ripley, West Virginia Photo: Jo Boggess Phillips. President Lyndon B.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. government orders to go to an internment camp, as they were called then, saying it was unconstitutional.

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TCI

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Review the list to find seasonal social studies lessons, primary source activities, and biographies for K-12 classrooms. Teach secondary students about the Salem witch trials with a free lesson. Cover voting, good citizenship, and the foundations of government with these free TCI lessons. Get the biographies. presidents.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. Teaching Stories Teachers who received the hardback edition have shared their appreciation and teaching stories, including those below.

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The right is doing all they can to suppress the teaching of history, but they are not succeeding. Teaching the Seeds of Violence in Palestine-Israel By Bill Bigelow A mixer/mystery activity on Zionism, anti-Zionism, peasant resistance, the Great War, the British Mandate, and more. government. government. How do we know?

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

When the Yom Kippur War took the country by surprise, Meir helped form a new coalition government. See how Studies Weekly Social Studies teaches world history from different cultural perspectives by requesting a sample. She became Israels first female prime minister in 1969 and sought to establish peace between Israel and Arab states.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 14, 2024

The right is doing all they can to suppress the teaching of history, but they are not succeeding. government. In the follow-up lesson, students explore primary sources that reveal key outcomes of the Reconstruction era. How do we know? Read the list and donate so that we can provide more teachers with these lessons.

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