teaching history

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• SOURCE: LitHub
  5/27/2020
  

  All the History I Learned in my Youth Came from the American Girl Doll Books

  Learning about history can come from unexpected places. The information booklets sold with the author's dolls may have drawn on more historians' expertise than her school textbooks did. 

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• SOURCE: University Affairs
  5/28/2020
  

  Role-Playing Games are Breathing New Life into the History Classroom

  Immersive role-playing games offer an alternative method to engaging students with history and with the research, writing and interpretive skills of historians. 

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• 5/31/2020
  

  Why Study History? More Than Ever, a Question that Needs Answering

  by Peter N. Stearns

  One of the few bright features of the past two months has been the extent to which the pandemic crisis has clarified the real public need for historical perspectives. 

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• SOURCE: School Library Journal
  5/20/2020
  

  8 Podcasts About Civics and U.S. History

  School Library Journal recommends history and civics podcasts for kids. 

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• 5/17/2020
  

  Hong Kong Apocalypses: Teaching the Recent Past and the Speculative Future

  by James Carter

  The chaos of Hong Kong's recent protests and the Coronavirus unsettled a historian's sense of the boundary between past and present. Perhaps we understand either only through the mirror of the other. 

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• 5/17/2020
  

  Graduate Students: NOT THE WORST

  by Michelle Nickerson

  A history professor celebrates her graduate students' idiosyncrasies and their outstanding work under duress as redemption for a calamitous semester.

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• SOURCE: Public Seminar
  5/13/2020
  

  Brave New Classroom: Lessons from the First Six Weeks

  by Hannah Leffingwell

  This crisis has pulled the ground out from under us all—professors, researchers, doctoral students, and undergraduates alike. But in truth, the weak spots revealed through this crisis have long existed.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  5/13/2020
  

  Finding the Funny: Historians’ Lectures Provide Material for Improv Comedians

  A Philadelphia improv comedy group has been inviting historians to collaborate for years in performances mixing historical lecture and improvised reenactments.  

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• SOURCE: Saved by History
  5/13/2020
  

  A Response to "Alternate" Explanations

  by L.D. Burnett

  How should a professor respond to a student's journaling project if it reflects unfounded conspiracy theories about Covid-19? 

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• SOURCE: Stanford Daily
  5/5/2020
  

  ‘Anti-Blackness and Classroom Racism’: Senators Condemn Professor’s Repeated Use of Racial Slur

  The art history professor used the racial slur while writing the full name of the group N.W.A. and when discussing one of its albums.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/17/2020
  

  A History Professor Gave Students an Unusual Assignment. Here are the Results.

  Kevin Mitchell Mercer prompted a revealing Twitter conversation among history teachers in K-12 and higher education about this moment and how to capture it for students in class.

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• 4/12/2020
  

  April is the Cruelest Month: Teaching History Now

  by Carolyn Eisenberg

  History teachers have two urgent challenges: helping their students cope with this crisis, and helping them understand the society that created it. Neither allows teaching as usual.

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• 3/22/2020
  

  As We Zoom into Online Learning….

  by Norman J.W. Goda

  To learn effectively, we all need to be, once again, in the same room. Let’s hope it is soon.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  3/18/2020
  

  This Isn’t Just an Experiment in Education. It’s a Test of Our Democracy, Too.

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  The new machines weren’t created for elites, who would always have access to the best kinds of education that America could offer. Technology was for everyone else.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  3/18/2020
  

  Use What You Know: Online Teaching Tools

  by Kevin Gannon

  Many historians have already been doing this kind of teaching online, so there might not be the need for you to re-discover fire.

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• 3/15/2020
  

  I Taught my Students to Create Hoaxes in Public. Here’s Why

  by Keith A. Erekson

  The discipline of history has much to offer our present age of misinformation in terms of subject matter and analytical methods.

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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.”