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US History Projects

Passion for Social Studies

Luckily, the US History Projects Bundle has everything you need to integrate engaging ways for students to demonstrate their learning. history can often feel distant or abstract, but projects help make it real by involving students in hands-on tasks. On top of this, projects help make history relevant.

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It’s Time to Replace “Prehistory” With “Deep History”

Sapiens

A team of archaeologists working in Southeast Asia is pushing toward a deeper understanding of history that amplifies Indigenous and local perspectives to challenge traditional archaeological timelines. Instead, we advocate for “deep history.” When you think of “prehistory,” what images come to mind? Humans huddled in caves.

History 143
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How Colonialism Invented Food Insecurity in West Africa

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Archaeological evidence and Oral Histories show people in what is today Ghana lived sustainably for millennia—until European colonial powers and the widespread trade of enslaved people changed everything. While Logan’s work revealed the plants Banda residents ate, other research reconstructed the region’s broader environmental history.

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Moving to a Hybrid Learning Model

A Principal's Reflections

The premise though is to not only incorporate what has been learned up to this point during one of the most disruptive times in history but also to perceive what might come next. Failing to prepare for the unknown or addressing the slew of challenges that arose when schools were closed means that nothing was learned.

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Tracing Roti’s Pasts, Presents, and Futures

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The Roti Collective, a community-based research project, explores the layered histories that brought a flatbread from the Indian subcontinent around the world. In Calcutta on Your Plate , her book on Bengali cuisine and gastronomic history, she points out the absence of roti in Bengali meals until the mid-20th century. where I teach.

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Schools bar Native students from wearing traditional regalia at graduation

The Hechinger Report

It was a moment she’d been waiting for since her freshman year — not just to graduate from high school, but also to wear her traditional Yup’ik headdress and mukluks. The traditional Yup’ik headdress Andrew wore at graduation is made of sealskin, beaver and wolf fur and trimmed with black and gold beads.

Tradition 145
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How Heavy Metal Fuels Indigenous Revival in Patagonia

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Partway through our conversation on Indigenous history, music, and language, Calfunao lit up when he discovered that we were both metalheads. Mapuche shamans, or machis , play the traditional kultrun drum in 1900. The band name Werken, for example, refers to a traditional messenger and spokesperson role in Mapuche society.

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