teaching history

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• 2/2/20
  

  Mary Jo Binker on Eleanor Roosevelt and Advice for Future Historians

  by Isabella DelPino

  “You know what I love about Eleanor Roosevelt and the thing that I try to emulate the most about Eleanor Roosevelt? She had tremendous zest for life and for new experience and that animates me.”

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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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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/15/19
  

  Teaching impeaching: History comes to life in school as teachers seize on this historic moment. Here’s what some are doing — and how.

  “All too often, we look at history as these singular events that happened long ago. We sometimes try to connect many of those events to the present, but we fail to realize sometimes that the events that are unfolding around us every day are historic, too."

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• SOURCE: Slate
  5/20/19
  

  If “living history” role-plays in the classroom can so easily go wrong, why do teachers keep assigning them?

  Teachers with no sense of perspective tried to make history personal and ended up reinforcing white supremacy in the name of “learning.”

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• SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Foundation
  5/7/19
  

  Woodrow Wilson Foundation Releases Findings on Why Americans Don't Know History

  And how we can change it. 

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• 2/24/19
  

  Teaching the Fall of the Roman Republic During the Trump Presidency

  by Edward Watts

  My students are trying to understand Rome’s mistakes and discover sources of its political resilience.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  1/29/19
  

  History Holds Steady

  Field's faculty jobs outlook was constant last year after years of disappearing positions.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/24/19
  

  Digital technology offers new ways to teach lessons from the Holocaust

  by Jennifer Rich

  New advances in learning about the Holocaust through digital humanities offer new ways for American students and teachers – or anyone who cares to learn more about the Holocaust - to learn about an event that took place nearly three-quarters of a century ago.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  1/9/19
  

  Why Study History?

  by Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt

  To answer that question, Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt tells a pedagogical story in two parts.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives
  8-20-18
  

  Sam Wineburg's got some advice for teachers

  by Elizabeth Elliott

  The Stanford professor says historians need to ditch traditional textbooks and teach students how to determine what's true and what's fiction on their phones. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5-1-14
  

  High School History Doesn't Have to Be Boring

  by David Cutler

  "We teach you ways to use evidence to support your argument.”