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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
  1/21/20
  

  Rethinking How We Train Historians

  by Rita Chin

  What if we designed a graduate course that accounted for the conditions of the job market and history as a discipline? What if we taught students how to undertake the work of historical scholarship in a collaborative manner that more closely resembles the way labor is organized in today’s society, both inside and outside of academia?

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• SOURCE: Yes! Magazine
  1/9/20
  

  How Educators Are Rethinking The Way They Teach Immigration History

  Feauting quotes from historian Greg Grandin. 

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• SOURCE: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
  1/5/20
  

  The Role of History Educators in a Time of Crisis: Building Bridges Between Historians and K-12 History Teachers

  by Sari Beth Rosenberg

  Updates and insight from a panel at the American Historical Association. 

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• SOURCE: Roger Williams University News
  

  Tweeting from the Past: History Course Uses Social Media to Bring Research to Life

  Associate Professor of History Autumn Quezada-Grant brings history into the modern age with a course assignment to create social media accounts for famous figures.

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• 12/1/2019
  

  Losing Sight of Jefferson and Falling into Plato

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  Socratic Styled Teaching in Twenty-First Century American Classrooms

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
  11/14/19
  

  Using Digital History in the Classroom

  New to digital history? These three steps may help you incorporate #DigHist into your classroom.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  11/11/19
  

  Black Perspectives Publishes Online Forum: "Researching, Teaching, and Embodying the Black Diaspora"

  by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Crystal Moten

  An introduction to the online forum and a list of the articles published as part of it so far. 

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• SOURCE: EdSurge
  11/4/19
  

  The Problem With How We Teach History

  by Rachel Burstein

  Students are still often building up to what they have been told is true, rather than finding truth on their own.

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• SOURCE: BU Today
  10/15/19
  

  Historian Andrew David Teaching Impeachment during an Impeachment Inquiry

  Andrew David pivots his lecture to teach about American presidential history as it unfolds.

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
  10/7/19
  

  American Historical Association Announces 2019 Prize Winners

  Dozens of historians will be recognized for their exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects.

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• SOURCE: The Orange County Register
  9/19/19
  

  Eric Gonzaba Uses T-shirts, address books to explore LGBTQ history

  by Susan Gill Vardon

  Dr. Gonzaba is excited about finding ways to involve his students in a project he has been working on since 2014 — Wearing Gay History, an award-winning digital mapping project that explores the global history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people through T-shirts.

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• SOURCE: The Crimson
  9/19/19
  

  Responding to a ‘Crisis in the Humanities,’ Harvard History Dept. Rebrands

  Harvard's history department is rebranding to respond to national changes.  

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• SOURCE: Real Clear Investigations
  9/17/19
  

  The Ethnic Studies Movement Is Making Big Inroads in America's High Schools

  Teachers around the country are already offering ethnic studies classes, units or lessons on their own initiative, citing a growing urgency to confront racism, sexism, homophobia and other entrenched social inequalities.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/3/19
  

  Police and punitive policies make schools less safe, especially for minority students

  by Kathryn Schumaker

  The increase in school security is directly linked to the rise of student activism that started to transform schools 50 years ago.

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• SOURCE: The Athletic
  8/14/19
  

  The Athletic Profiles Sean Wilentz's Mentorship of Yankees First Baseman Mike Ford

  When a talented Princeton baseball player named Mike Ford needed an adviser for his senior thesis, Wilentz thought it could be a match. 

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• SOURCE: NCPH
  8/29/19
  

  National Council on Public History Launches "The Inclusive Historian's Handbook"

  The handbook is a co-sponsored living digital resource designed to center inclusivity, diversity, equity, and public service in public history work.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  8/27/19
  

  Teaching in the Age of Me Too

  by Eric S. Yellin

  Eric S. Yellin was nervous about teaching a course based on a false rape accusation but found he was wrong to be so anxious -- and that the experience offered four lessons for instructors.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  8/15/19
  

  Push for Ethnic Studies in Schools Faces a Dilemma: Whose Stories to Tell

  California’s newly proposed model ethnic studies curriculum has led to bitter debate in recent weeks.

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• SOURCE: Pacific Standard
  7/30/19
  

  New Studies Finds Professors Don't Discriminate Against Conservative Students

  by David M. Perry

  A major study led by a lifelong Republican finds no evidence that professors are deliberately giving conservative students bad grades.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/24/19
  

  Historians Describe How The Use the Mueller Report When Teaching

  Educators are using the report from former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in the classroom.