teaching history

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  

  Teaching: More Pandemic-Driven Innovations Professors Like

  "The themes running through all of these innovations are flexibility and engagement: The more ways in which people can participate in the classroom, contribute to discussions, and share their ideas, readers found, the more learning improves."

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• SOURCE: Arkansas Democrat & Gazette
  4/11/2021
  

  Unsung and Unknown — Graphic Biography Details Life of First Black Lieutenant Governor, Oscar Dunn

  Professor Brian Mitchell's path into history began with a teacher's disbelief that one of his relatives had been the Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana. He now tells the story of Oscar Dunn in a graphic form to make it as widely accessible as possible. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/10/2021
  

  Is Congress Falling for Scheme to Ruin Civics and History Classes?

  Education scholar Mark Bauerlein has criticized the new Civics Secures Democracy Act as a subsidy for politically correct indoctrination in schools, though others disagree with his recent Manhattan Institute findings. 

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• SOURCE: Oxford (OH) Observer
  4/9/2021
  

  Miami Professor Writes Book for Young Readers about Roosevelt’s Fight with Polio

  Journalism professor and FDR biographer James Tobin describes the work of making the story of Roosevelt's battle with polio and its effect on his political life accessible to young readers.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/7/2021
  

  Why Republican Efforts to Ban the 1619 Project from Classrooms are so Misguided

  by Seth Rockman

  "Ultimately the deep concern about the 1619 Project’s truth-telling concerning the American past is not that it puts patriotism at risk, but rather that it jeopardizes particular versions of the American future," including a recent Heritage Foundation report that is mostly concerned that the 1619 project will lessen the appeal of libertarian capitalism. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  3/30/2021
  

  A ‘History of Exclusion, of Erasure, of Invisibility.’ Why the Asian-American Story Is Missing From Many U.S. Classrooms

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  "There are more than 22 million Asian Americans (about 6% of the U.S. population), representing nearly 50 ethnic groups and speaking more than 100 languages, and they make up the fastest growing racial or ethnic group among eligible U.S. voters. Yet little of their story is taught in K-12 U.S. schools."

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• 4/4/2021
  

  Teachers, Keep Hope about the Minds You Influence

  by Leslie Kitchen

  For teachers of history, success can be uncertain and hard to measure. One writer calls for hope and faith in the impact teachers make on their students. 

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• SOURCE: Blue Book Diaries
  3/26/2021
  

  Teaching Controversial History: Four Moves

  by Jonathan Wilson

  A reflection on the work of teaching controversial subjects argues that it's essential to respect students' autonomy and provide them with the tools with which to change their own minds. 

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• 3/28/2021
  

  Historians for Peace and Democracy Present Free Resources for History Educators

  by Margaret Power and Kevin Young

  Historians for Peace and Democracy invite readers and particularly history educators to explore the group's free resources for teaching about issues of peace, democracy, and human rights. 

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• SOURCE: News 4 Jacksonville
  3/18/2021
  

  DeSantis Lashes out at ‘Critical Race Theory’ in Push to Overhaul Florida’s Civics Curriculum

  Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is the latest official to attack "Critical Race Theory" based on an understanding that the ideas are corrupting civics education by overstating the extent of racism in the US. 

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• SOURCE: Iowa Capital Dispatch
  3/16/2021
  

  Iowa House Passes Controversial Bill to Ban ‘Divisive Concepts’ from School Training, Curriculum

  “This bill is a denial of history,” Rep. Marti Anderson, D-Des Moines, said. “The bill doesn’t want our next generations to receive complete American history education that includes the facts of our darkest hours.” 

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• SOURCE: Art & Object
  3/15/2021
  

  Understanding a Political Cartoon: Nast & Reconstruction

  Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott and Dr. Beth Harris take a close read of Thomas Nast's 1874 political cartoon, "The Union As It Was—Worse Than Slavery." (H/T to the Twitter feed of Kevin M. Levin!)

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  3/12/2021
  

  An Honest History of Texas Begins and Ends With White Supremacy

  by Casey Michel

  Amanda Vickery of the University of North Texas says that recent proposals in the Texas legislature for a curriculum of Texas patriotism won't acknowledge the way that slavery and white supremacy were central to the Republic of Texas. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  3/16/2021
  

  On the Mythologizing of United States History

  by Matthew Teutsch

  "I am a native Louisianian, and I am white. I never learned about the racial violence and voter suppression that occurred during and after Reconstruction, nor did I learn about the massacres that continue to influence the present." 

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• 3/14/2021
  

  The Big Ideas History Syllabus

  by Andrew Joseph Pegoda

  Good teachers consider their method, communication, and sources carefully. What about our subject, as teachers of history? How do we communicate what history is as a "big idea"? 

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• SOURCE: Public Radio Tulsa
  3/2/2021
  

  Tulsa Public Schools To Launch New Curriculum For Teaching The 1921 Race Massacre

  Board member Pastor Jennettie Marshall expressed enthusiasm about the new lesson plans: "Over these 100 years, for African Americans -- and I can only speak for African Americans -- we have lived in this city, and we have walked around feeling that our pain and our history and, as individuals, we were invisible."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/1/2021
  

  Massive Investment in Social Studies and Civics Education Proposed to Address Eroding Trust in Democratic Institutions

  The Educating for American Democracy (EAD) initiative will release a 36-page report and an accompanying 39-page road map Tuesday, laying out extensive guidance for improving and reimagining the teaching of social studies, history and civics and then implementing that over the next decade.

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  1/20/2021
  

  Making Revisionism Great Again: The Trouble With Trump’s Rewriting Of American History

  by James W. Loewen

  The 1776 commission quotes Frederick Douglass for its own peculiar purposes, so I shall end by quoting him for mine. “He is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins.”

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• SOURCE: Dayton.com
  3/1/2021
  

  Former Procter and Gamble CEO: America and the World Need History Majors

  by John Pepper

  "Paraphrasing former Yale President and MLB Commissioner Bart Giamatti, I love history because I have come to see that without a knowledge of the past — its realities and causative relationships –— we cannot hope to construct an action agenda able to lead us to a better future."

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  3/2/2021
  

  Mock Slave Auctions, Racist Lessons: How US History Class Often Traumatizes, Dehumanizes Black Students

  Experts acknowledge that teaching the history of slavery as a brutal and dehumanizing system is difficult. The persistence of assignments that impose humiliation on students shows more work is needed.