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NCHE Partners with the Library of Congress

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The National Council for History Education (NCHE) is excited to announce a new partnership with the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program (TPS). About the Teaching with Primary Sources Program (TPS) The Teaching with Primary Sources program has been the Library of Congresss premier educational outreach program.

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Throwback Thursday: Primary sources and personal stories = awesome sauce

History Tech

I got the chance this week to chat a bit with my kids – both now in Minnesota. And during the convo with the youngest, we ended up talking about a letter written by a Norwegian ski instructor in 1943. The guy was teaching US and Canadian special ops guys to ski as part of […]

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

The Hechinger Report

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. It’s intended for larger museum, school and community spaces. Credit: The Rowan University Virtual Reality Lab.

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How does an NCHE Colloquium come together?

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Funded by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant, our 3-day long programming has guided hundreds of teachers in exploring how technology has shaped history while simultaneously developing teachers’ ability to design, implement, evaluate, and share primary source based historical inquiry.

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My Goal as a History Teacher: Create Curators

Rosie the History Teacher

As a history teacher with a background in museum work, my biggest goal is for my students to learn to curate their knowledge to be able to share it with others. This involves so many of those important historical thinking skills : making connections, periodization, analyzing sources, and crafting arguments.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. National Archives, and maybe dig through the 5.3 million book images from the Internet Archive. .

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In Philadelphia, a symbol of police brutality comes down, and a monument to black student protesters will go up

The Hechinger Report

Masterman High School, the rising junior was doing research for a proposal to convince the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission to erect a marker to commemorate the walkouts, when thousands of local students marched to protest racial injustice more than 50 years earlier. It was the summer of 2019, and Nia was 15. But it really was.”

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