NCHE

APRIL 1, 2025

The National Council for History Education (NCHE) is excited to announce a new partnership with the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program (TPS). As of February 2025, NCHE serves as the director of one of the Librarys newest regional granting entities, the Great Plains Region.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

The seminar also includes a visit to a local historical site. Meals, materials, double-occupancy rooms, and historical site visits are covered 100%. During the seminar, the teachers discuss primary documents on the seminar topic with the guidance of a scholar, who acts as the seminar leader. See a sample itinerary here.

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Historic Sites Museum American History Heritage 128

Teaching American History

MARCH 4, 2025

Native American Leadership, Identity, and Resistance at Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center in Mashantucket, CT. Anthony Museum and House in Rochester, NY. The West in History and Memory at National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, OK. Anthony & Reform at Susan B. Have more questions?

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Easily access real-world learning materials like video tutorials, primary and secondary sources for research projects, museum collections, historical sites, and digital books, available online and often for free. Ask your local library about access to free digital or audio books.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

Art galleries, museums, or historical sites were popular with almost two-thirds of non-poor families, while less than a third of poor families took their kindergarteners to these locations in the summer before first grade. We must continue to provide access to software, online libraries and educational videos.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 27, 2024

Some of our topics include: Security, Self Determination, and Empire: The Grand Alliance, 1941-1945 at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, LA. Controversy, Consensus, and Compromise in the American Founding, at Pima Air & Space Museum in Tuscon, AZ. Bush Presidential Library & Museum in College Station, TX.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

We can do this by taking field trips to local museums and historical sites, inviting experts into our classrooms, participating in programs like Empatico that connect students worldwide, creating robust class libraries and using content-rich curriculums across subject areas to build student knowledge.

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