teaching history

• 
• 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. 

• 
• 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.

• 
• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  1/29/19
  

  History Holds Steady

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

• 
• 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.

• 
• 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.

• 
• 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. 

• 
• 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.”