Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Conversation with Sonja Czarnecki Sonja Czarnecki, 2022 MAHG Graduate “In order to understand history, you have to do history,” Sonja Czarnecki insists. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable? As an Asian American, my lived experience and this research make me firmly believe that we must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S. — We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

However, recent research highlights the crucial role of social studies instruction in developing strong reading skills. While schools often increase ELA instruction to improve literacy rates, research suggests that allocating more time to social studies is actually more effective.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 7, 2025

4 Arab American Scientists to Know Apr 07, 2025 By Studies Weekly NEWSLETTER April is Arab American Heritage Month, a time to recognize the impactful contributions and achievements of Arab Americans in history. He also researched and developed artificial hearts and ventricular assist pumps.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

However, research increasingly shows that integrating knowledge-rich instruction across subjects is essential for improving literacy, critical thinking, and overall student success. This time allocation persists despite research showing that knowledge-rich instruction in these subjects significantly boosts literacy development.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

While some students also receive one-on-one remediation, Fisher said that research shows those interventions aren’t enough to close the gap. “We HSHMC’s approach of integrating literacy into content classes is something that researchers are calling for. For decades, the primary methods for teaching students how to read in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2021

Over the past decade, researchers, museum professionals and educators have started to explore the use of virtual and augmented reality in relation to Holocaust education and memory. One even said she had “never wanted to learn history’’ before. One even said that she had “never wanted to learn history’’ before.

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Simplifying Primary Sources with AI My goal was to simplify the lesson while still helping students build confidence and learn. Using a Mnemonic Device The map we used came from Howson History, and it featured a helpful mnemonic device for remembering the colonial regions. Experimental Idea I created a Colony Founder GPT.

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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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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.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

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4QM Teaching

MARCH 17, 2025

History course that covers 1492-1877. The 4QM team wrote our own narratives for all the Question One lessons, edited primary sources for all the Question Twos, researched data for all the Question Threes, and hashed out all the Question Fours. Today were almost done with a 4QM U.S.

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ASHP CML

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In spring 2024, Trystin Curbelo joined ASHP as an intern to work with researcher Carli Snyder on a new collection for our popular database, Social History for Every Classroom (SHEC). Carli and Trystin compiled primary sources and collaboratively wrote teaching activities, essential questions, and a background essay.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

When the AP United States history students at Aragon High School in San Mateo California, scanned the professionally designed pages of www.minimumwage.com , most concluded that it was a solid, unbiased source of facts and analysis. Northport, N.Y., Photo: Janis Shachter. They got duped.”.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

Christopher Lowman built a writing course for the era of ChatGPT, introducing anthropology majors to Large Language Models (LLMs) and their ability to prompt research topics and improve writing while teaching students to recognize AI’s limitations. Ian Straughn worked with students in an introductory archaeology course using Humata.ai

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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. Since its ratification, the U.S.

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4QM Teaching

APRIL 30, 2023

That rubric defined “rigor” as student engagement with primary source texts and artifacts. Question Two) — is most appropriately addressed by interpreting primary sources. Generic accounts of thinking skills often treat document reading and analysis as the bread-and-butter of history teaching and learning.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

It teaches the basics of critical thinking, research and academic writing. They write brief papers and give short oral reports, building skills and stamina they eventually will need to complete and present a capstone research project, their final assignment before they graduate. The course is called Transformations.

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Students of History

JANUARY 3, 2023

For US History, that can be reading (or even listening to) this short article on the stock market crash of 1929 and then organizing the important parts of the article into their interactive notebook: This allows students to be hands on with their learning and easily combine a digital resource with a paper/pencil activity.

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Leah Cleary

DECEMBER 10, 2022

It doesn’t allow room for creativity, research, or curiosity. A really good question can spark curiosity and drive research. The following standard is for world history in the Georgia Standards of Excellence : SSWH16 Analyze the rise of nationalism and worldwide imperialism. These 11 questions will drive student research.

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Moler's Musing

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Semester That Was in 505: Fostering Engagement and Critical Thinking in 8th Grade Social Studies As the first semester concludes, my reflection on the experiences in 8th grade social studies reveals a commitment to nurturing curiosity, developing critical thinking abilities, and making history come alive through local connections.

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History Tech

JUNE 27, 2023

I’ve been spending some time over the last few weeks doing some research on a writing project and happened to run across on old post of mine from several years ago. The post is based on some comments made by the late Grant Wiggins. Wiggins spent much of his time working with Jay McTIghe to […]

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

This week’s post comes from Thomas Fulbright, current KCSS president and history teacher at Hope Street Academy, a public charter school in Topeka since 2008. Thomas intends “to spend my entire life convincing them how exciting and important history is.” His bio picture is daughter Claire and Thomas meeting President Lincoln.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Maikko, 2, in pink, Terrance, 1, in red, and Nylah, behind Terrance, dance as their child care provider, Lorna Parks, foreground, claps during a visit by staffers from Detroit’s African-American History Museum. Michael Elsen-Rooney/The Teacher Project. Home-based operators help teach about 1.5

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

He did, and Livingston soon found herself sitting in an introductory college course in US history. The next semester, she took two more US history classes, then realized she’d found her major. The next school year, she was asked to teach not only the regular-level geography course but also AP Human Geography and World History.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 8, 2024

Don’t be afraid to do some research here! Once I knew I wanted to incorporate music into my inquiry, I had to do some research to find the tension in music made during the Cold War. I started with browsing an exhaustive amount of websites, academic journals, blog posts, digital museum tours, primary sources etc.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 8, 2024

Don’t be afraid to do some research here! Once I knew I wanted to incorporate music into my inquiry, I had to do some research to find the tension in music made during the Cold War. I started with browsing an exhaustive amount of websites, academic journals, blog posts, digital museum tours, primary sources etc.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In Norfolk, Virginia, the juniors and seniors enrolled in an African American history class taught by Ed Allison were working on their capstone projects, using nearby Fort Monroe, the site where the first enslaved Africans landed in 1619, as a jumping off point to explore their family history.

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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”. One example of the work that will be presented in The Source is students’ discoveries in their hometown of Thomaston, Georgia.

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ASHP CML

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The ASHP staff knows that such changes dont emerge overnight; as we look backward and ahead, we remain committed to making our work as history educators help generate greater understanding of the current historical moment. This week, researcher Carli Snyder shares a primary source.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2021

lessons on the history of Black people often focus on “trauma and tribulation,” said Erica Buddington, founder and CEO of Langston League, a firm that specializes in creating culturally responsive instructional materials. Buddington’s team wrote the curriculum and helped with the archive research that accompanies the Kinfolk app.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

It was startling, Nia thought, how studying history could leave her feeling the same heaviness she’d felt scrolling social media after police had killed Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and Laquan McDonald, young Black people of her own generation. Tatiana Bennett was studying the history of hip-hop. Credit: Courtesy of Helen Gym.

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Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies with the Kansas State Department of Education. In 2010, Nathan was named Kansas and National History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 3, 2025

Research in neuroscience and psychology explains these lasting benefits. You already understand that teaching children resilience, a growth mindset, a good attitude, confidence, and a kind heart will affect the whole child and their well-being for life. And you may be the only positive thing they can rely on.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

“Child care is not funded to serve all children who are eligible and it’s not funded to provide rates that ensure quality care for all eligible children,” said Karen Schulman, the child care and early learning research director at the National Women’s Law Center, which advocates for gender equity. They’re not going to take my license away.

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Thrive in Grade Five

APRIL 20, 2019

The Beginnings of Hysteria So, how did this terrifying time in history begin? Primary source documents report that Bridget continued to proclaim her innocence up to the moment of her execution. During her research, Parker learned of Esther Ewell, her tenth great-grandmother. Ask students to research an accused witch.

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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. In a class with teachers , Delmont explained the relevance of learning this history. We’ll add more once teachers use the new paperback edition.

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