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A Message of Support

NCHE

We, and our students, make sense of individuals, groups, and events by studying primary sources and the work of scholars. We, and our students, understand that the documents we study reveal conflicting accounts or perspectives, which is why we know its critical to examine multiple sources and ask thoughtful questions.

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Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies

Studies Weekly

Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies Feb. To connect students to important historical events that have shaped America and the world, we often must go to the source. The primary source. Connecting Kids to History Studies Weekly uses primary sources to share real accounts.

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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

provides connection and coherence through the careful effort of trained human curators, making more than ten thousand articles from five hundred publications easily searchable and interconnected. Those resources present the latest discoveries from primary sources, place-based learning, graphic novels, podcasts, and videos.

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You Have Primary Sources in Your Family

Studies Weekly

You Have Primary Sources in Your Family May 10, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Primary sources transport students through history. Letters, photographs, postcards, journals, and other first-hand accounts add detail, humanity, and relevance to our picture of the past. Their family stories are history!

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Call for Applications: 2025-2026 Hellenic Research Fellowship Program

Society for Classical Studies

With its focus on the Hellenic world, the collection contains materials from antiquity to the present across the social sciences and humanities relating to Greece, its neighboring countries, and the surrounding region. There is a broad representation of languages in the collection, with a rich assortment of primary source materials.

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Genetic Evidence Reveals Ancient Migration to Japan

Anthropology.net

Human remains from the Yayoi period, approximately 2,300 years ago, from which DNA was extracted. Shaping the Modern Japanese Genome The new evidence supports the idea that the Korean Peninsula was the primary source of migration during both periods, reinforcing the two-way model of population admixture. Matsushita, T.,

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OPINION: How best do we teach kids about Holocaust horrors? Show them what it was like

The Hechinger Report

Standing in a recreated virtual space helps users learn something qualitatively different from simply looking at a photograph, reading primary source material or listening to survivor testimony. S tudents revealed that they were eager to spend more time with the experience.

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