teaching history

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  8/5/2020
  

  Epic Lego Battles Are A Smash On YouTube

  A subculture of Lego and military history enthusiasts has achieved notoriety for posting stop-motion videos of historic battles, despite the official non-violence policy of the building toy company. 

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• SOURCE: American Historical Association
  8/5/2020
  

  Remote Teaching Wiki

  Here, historians who have resources useful for remote teaching can share them, and those racing to adapt courses can search for materials instead of working from scratch. 

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• SOURCE: Christian Science Monitor
  7/30/2020
  

  More Than a Month: The Push to Change how Black History is Taught

  “Educators need to educate themselves,” educator Rann Miller says. “Quite frankly, you have a lot of white people who are unaware of the history of our nation. You may also have a lot of Black people who are unaware of the history of our nation.”

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  8/3/2020
  

  What Tom Cotton Gets So Wrong About Slavery and the Constitution

  by Sean Wilentz

  "I have fundamental publicized objections to the project, but these in no way mitigate Cotton’s serious misrepresentations of the historical record for evident political gain."

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• SOURCE: NBC Chicago
  8/2/2020
  

  Chicago-Area Leaders Call for Illinois to Halt History Classes Until Curriculum is Updated

  At a news conference, State Rep. LaShawn K. Ford said current history teachings lead to a racist society and overlook the contributions of women and minorities.

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• SOURCE: HBO
  8/2/2020
  

  US History: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

  John Oliver takes a look at how the history of race in America is taught in schools, how we can make those teachings more accurate, and why it’s in everyone's best interest to understand the most realistic version of the past.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/30/2020
  

  Tom Cotton Wants To Save American History. But He Gets It All Wrong.

  by Malinda Maynor Lowery

  Senator Cotton’s remarks and his proposal to revise history obscure the violence, death and displacement that slavery caused in both Black and Indigenous communities.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  7/23/2020
  

  Remote Reflections: One Class, 55 Classrooms

  by John Hopper

  I was pleased that the transition to entirely remote learning went well. However, there are definite drawbacks to this kind of teaching, even for someone who is used to teaching students in multiple locations. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/23/2020
  

  This One Letter In A Textbook Could Change How Millions Of Kids Learn About Race

  Albert Broussard is a history professor and a textbook writer for McGraw Hill. Broussard plans to capitalize the b in Black in the most recent revision of a middle and high school history textbook.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  7/14/2020
  

  The Need to Teach the History Behind Current Events Has Rarely Been Clearer. Here’s How Some Teachers Are Getting Ready

  As teachers face a new sense of urgency when it comes to teaching topics related to current events, the Philadelphia-based NCC hopes to arm middle- and high-school teachers with the knowledge needed to ground their discussions in a deeper understanding of the history of topics ranging from slavery and Reconstruction to federalism and women’s suffrage.

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• SOURCE: Education Week
  7/14/2020
  

  How Should Teachers Handle the Movement to 'Rewrite' High School History? Embrace It

  by Jack Doyle and Chris Doyle

  America today is a product of the past and not immune from its racist legacy. Combating racism, now, requires suspending overly optimistic narratives of its demise.

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• SOURCE: Arkansas Democrat & Gazette
  7/12/2020
  

  Arkansas History Books Carried Rebel Slant

  Arkansas historians Kenneth Barnes and Carl H. Moneyhon discuss the political influence of Confederate sympathizers and white supremacy over the content of history books in the state. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/9/2020
  

  How a History Textbook Would Describe 2020 So Far

  by James West Davidson

  A historian imagines the chapter high schoolers might read one day about this momentous time.

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• SOURCE: The Morning Call
  7/9/2020
  

  Black Lives Matter Movement Prods Bethlehem and Other Districts to Review How History is Taught

  Last weekend, protestors in Allentown, PA demanded that the school district mandate a Black history curriculum.

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• SOURCE: Market Watch
  7/8/2020
  

  ‘If I tell people about what happened, I honor my ancestors.’ How the Pandemic is Helping a Slavery Historian Develop a K-12 Lesson Plan on African-American History

  Non-academic historians step in to preserve stories that would otherwise be lost.

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• 7/12/2020
  

  A Letter to America: Why We Need a New History Education

  by Linda Morse

  Let us get busy: history teachers must change the world!

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  7/7/2020
  

  “A Keen Vision and Feeling of All Ordinary Life”: Pandemic Journaling in the History Classroom

  by Michelle Orihel

  Since memory is essential to functioning in our daily lives, we all think historically to survive, even if only to question ourselves: “Did I pay that bill yesterday?” In answering that question, we reconstruct yesterday’s actions in our minds and perhaps even search for physical (or in today’s case, digital) evidence of that task. There it is — historical thinking!

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/7/2020
  

  Just How Little U.S. Students Learn About African American History — And Five Steps to Start to Change That

  Leslie T. Fenwick and Chike Akua discuss anti-racist curriculums and provide five ways that K-12 and higher education administrators, teachers and students can begin to educate themselves on this subject.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/6/2020
  

  Calling Racism A ‘Leftist Lie,’ White Vandals Target California Black Lives Matter Slogan

  “More than it being defaced, I was really personally disgusted with what I heard from the people who did this,” said a resident of Martinez, California.

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• SOURCE: WGN9
  6/24/2020
  

  Teachers Say There are Obstacles to Teaching Black History

  To not tell the full story of slavery, is to not tell the full story of America; said professor of history Leslie Harris.