Teaching American History

APRIL 1, 2025

In honor of womens history month, we bring you a reading selection that highlights the upheaval American society experienced in the 1920s as regards gender roles. Read more Want more womens history materials? It was not even decent to concede that women were bipeds.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

While observing a 7th-grade history teacher, I saw him telling jokes to build relationships at the beginning of the class. In a past post , I shared how leaders can use AI to provide timely and personalized feedback, create a research-based comment library to use during formal observation or evaluations, and streamline communication.

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Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 23, 2019

The video made me laugh and think about how much the teacher of those students must have inspired a love of history! So, the history meme project was born in my classroom. What are my rules for making history memes? It’s seriously easy to make history memes. Why do I ask my students to create history memes?

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

1864) Library of Congress. 1865) Library of Congress. Ray Tyler Ray Tyler was the 2014 James Madison Fellow for South Carolina and a 2016 graduate of Ashland UniversitysMasters Program in American History and Government. Berger, Anthony. Lincoln believed the “word fitly spoken” already existed. Gardner, Alexander.

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NCHE

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

history, Oklahoma History, U.S./Virginia Virginia History, AP Human Geography, AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, and AP U.S. History for 8 years, a wealth of experience that informs the way he structures his programming at NCHE. I imagine the airport staff know him well by now. He taught U.S.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2024

As Publications Manager at Teaching American History , I frequently hear the following from our teacher partners: I love teaching with primary sources! The post A 3000+ Document Library: A Blessing or a Curse? appeared first on Teaching American History. But which one should I use? Your website is great! Where do I even start?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 28, 2022

While the debate is not new to the world of librarianship, the controversy about which books should be allowed to grace the shelves of a school library has become a common topic of conversation on news channels, talk shows and school board meetings. We choose books to show them they belong and to help them see that others belong too.

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C3 Teachers

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

I wanted discussion in the context of disciplinary tasks, and I found a new opportunity with the Library of Congress’ “Primary Source Analysis Tool.” I have implemented this tool with my students in a high school World History classroom and feel good about the outcomes.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

History class, students learned about the rise of Jacksonian Democracy and had to determine if Jackson was a highly successful president or a corrupt leader. Students in Mr. Tusa’s history class investigated the history of Europe through painting (1500-1800). History teacher Ms. Image credit: [link] In Ms. Levy’s U.S.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

c1903 from photo taken on May 16, 1861) Library of Congress. The post Lincoln’s Fragment on the Constitution and Union appeared first on Teaching American History. It is there to adorn and preserve the principles within the Declaration, and that makes it worthy of saving. Abraham Lincoln. All this is not the result of accident.

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Women's History Network

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The 33rd annual conference, which will take place on 4-5 September, 2025 will explore and celebrate women in the archives, libraries and museums and the challenge of uncovering their presence. We encourage approaches that foreground marginalised voices and imaginative approaches.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 7, 2025

But many species have traveled across the globe throughout human history, including as part of human trade and migration patterns, and not all of them are seen as problematic. Especially when we broaden the historical scale of our question, the idea of species nativeness gets murkier. The red-ringed parakeet (a.k.a.

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ASHP CML

MARCH 18, 2025

The CUNY Digital History Archive, co-administered by ASHP/CML and the MinaRees Library at the CUNY Graduate Center, is seeking proposals for curatedcollections to feature on its website. We invite proposals that highlightunderrepresented aspects of CUNYs history and contributions to the historicalrecord.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 22, 2025

Invited to attend a TAH multiday seminar on the Cold War at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, social studies teacher Cade Lohrding was thrilled. Then we went to the Reagan Library and learned more about the era. This is US history happening right now! Lohrdingborn in the late ninetieshas no memory of Reagans presidency.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Below are some examples of how my teachers made this shift when I was the principal at New Milford High School: Mr. Groff’s history classes utilized Paperlet , a participatory technology platform where students created digital stories that incorporated various multimedia elements including video, sound, and image files.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. I was always interested in history. history class and had always enjoyed my social studies classes. This month, we are featuring Caleb Brown.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 29, 2025

Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-19192. The post Honoring the Life of Lincoln with His Last Speech appeared first on Teaching American History. We rerun it today in honor of theanniversaryof Abraham Lincoln’s assassination onApril 15th, 1865. Today, April 15th , is the anniversary of Lincolns assassination.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2025

Colleges across the country are updating spaces like libraries and science labs to be more collaborative, says Lalit Agarwal, president and chief executive officer of APPA, an organization that supports educational facilities staff. The open design makes abundant use of natural light.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 2, 2025

But if you want to stop lecturing, spend more of your time working closely with students, and give your students control over their own learning, digitizing your direct instruction makes it possible to keep all of your students no matter their attendance history engaged at once. Come back for more.

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Sapiens

APRIL 8, 2025

Dozandri explores the representation of Puerto Rican linguistic practices in the archive of ballroom history. SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human is part of the American Anthropological Association Podcast Library. Their doctoral research focuses on trans forms of creative expression in the Puerto Rican ballroom scene.

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Society for Classical Studies

AUGUST 12, 2024

He also investigates the history of Classical scholars in America. For questions or for more information, call the Library at 207-244-7065, visit www.swhplibrary.org , or email programs@swhplibrary.org. Register for the event at: [link] Image Credits Southwest Harbor Public Library logo

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Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Its easy to implement and works across various subjects, not just history. How to Use ‘Previously On’ in History Lessons “Previously On” is a quick, structured way for students to review and connect past learning to new material. This was the first topic Mike and I used in our classes. More on that in a minute.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 14, 2014

Mr. Groff’s US history classes piloted Paperlet , a new educationally based technology platform where students create digital stories that incorporate various multimedia elements including video, sound, and image files. The students worked with Mrs. Fleming on new Google Chromebooks in the library to design their e-books.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

While skills like collaboration, effective communication, and critical thinking are valuable, it’s hard not to wonder what happens to content areas like history and algebra do these just go away? This video shows how these work: What About Content? “It’s not that it goes away,” Bell explains.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If High school teacher Donell Harrell said he was almost fired for staging a Black History Month program. She liked the people and the culture and the history. You know how Ms. Her desk would be in the hall.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 28, 2025

Students can help move books from their teacher’s desk to the class library and stacking on the shelves during clean-up time Being the door helper and holding open the door for their class to go through is a favorite for sure because it makes them feel so special!

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. Teaching American History hosts Multi-Day seminars at no cost to American history and government teachers. appeared first on Teaching American History. Free professional development. What more could you ask for? See a sample itinerary here.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 4, 2025

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. The West in History and Memory at National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, OK. Freedom, Virtue, & Resistance in African American Political Thought at African American Museum and Library at Oakland in Oakland, CA.

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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 27, 2022

Click on the history volume and you can learn the history of empire from Ghana to the Sultanate of Massina. Learn about the Mosque of Djenne here and its importance as a library for manuscripts. In another section, you can click on the different topics that the manuscripts cover and read a summary of what they say.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

25, 2025 Studies Weekly Its often difficult to connect students to the real-world, real-time applications of events from history and the real people who lived them. The attacks on 9/11 affected millions of people, and informed much of the public policy in action today but for these children, that event is history. The primary source.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

On Twitter, users add lessons and resources to the #CharlottesvilleSyllabus and #CharlottesvilleCurriculum pages; everything from identity charts to readings on the history of white supremacy to conflict resolution activities. What was troubling enough as 20 th century history is happening in present time. history standards ?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2024

I determined their independent reading levels and organized my classroom library according to reading difficulty. There is evidence that teaching such skills has some benefit, but what students really need in order to read with understanding is knowledge about history, geography, science, music, the arts and the world more broadly.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

This act required integration in employment, retail businesses and restaurants, and public facilities like libraries, parks and museumsas well as schools. Ellen Tucker, long time blog contributor for Teaching American History [1] But not as proactive as some. For a history of Rosenwald schools, see Thomas W.

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History Tech

MARCH 15, 2023

I’ve had the chance to meet a lot of people who work at the Library of Congress. And they’ve all been awesome. I’m sure there’s probably one or two who work over there who are Las Vegas Raiders fans or who will tell you that they don’t like Kansas City Joe’s burnt ends. And other […]

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HistoryRewriter

OCTOBER 27, 2023

I thought it would be too slow and boring for my 10th-grade World History students. I hope it is well-stocked in school libraries. I remember skimming it in Barnes and Noble and putting it down because it starts off with a romantic triangle between Aphrodite, Ares, and Hephaestus in a New York City hotel suite in 1942. I was wrong.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

and global history classes are often crunched for time by the end of the school year and struggle to fit in discussions of any events that happened after the end of the Cold War in the 1990s. It’s going from the front pages of the newspaper to the history books.”. But even then, teachers of traditional U.S.

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