History Local History Research 
NCHE
APRIL 3, 2023
At the grocery store: “ Your students did such a great job documenting our local history! The gas station: “ Hey Joe, I heard you had a student doing some research about local mines in our community. What’s the name of that young lady who did a history project about Dickson Mounds?
Life and Landscapes
NOVEMBER 16, 2024
The crossing of Morgan’s men into Indiana is steeped in local history and well-remembered by local residents. Fortunately, however, I can direct you to the wonderfully descriptive Meade County History Museum in Brandenburg, a center of high-quality scholarship and research in this region.
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NCHE
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Since 2021, the National Council for History Education has partnered with the Library of Congress’ Teaching with Primary Sources program on a nationwide program, “The Rural Experience in America”. The Library of Congress is developing a new education center that will break ground in the next few years.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 12, 2022
The best class I ever taught centered on the history of Washington, D.C. I was so excited to teach this class, I spent the summer collecting articles and artifacts from the local library and historical society. They learned about the history of their neighborhoods and the origins of the music they listened to.
ED Surge
JANUARY 10, 2023
Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.
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. We’d subscribe to feeds and listen to podcasts from the U.S.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 28, 2019
This is important because students need background knowledge about a topic to be able to understand a text about it, and the more background knowledge they have, research has shown, the more likely it is that they will be able to demonstrate the skills that U.S. They develop similar skills as those that U.S. schools assess.
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