About #AHRSyllabus

The #AHRSyllabus is a collaborative project designed to help teachers and students look "under the hood" at how historians in the early 21st century do the work of history. Each contribution to the syllabus will feature a practical hands-on teaching module that foregrounds innovative uses of historical method in the classroom. Beginning in September 2023, every AHR issue includes one or two #AHRSyllabus modules, featuring topics such as teaching historical gaming in the classroom, making historical podcasts, teaching with graphic novels, innovative approaches to teaching historiography and teaching with material culture. All #AHRSyllabus modules are freely available on the AHR’s website to encourage wide classroom adoption.

Modules

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A Case for Objects: Material Culture in the History Classroom
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Good Question: Right-Sizing Inquiry with History Teachers
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Covers of National Standards for History for Grades K-4, National Standards for United States History, and National Standards for World History, 1994. National Center for History in the Schools, University of California, Los Angeles.
Teaching How Official History Is Made: State Standards as Primary Sources
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Lithographs by Genaro López, based on the Lienzo de Tlaxcala, in Homenaje á Cristóbal Colón: Antigüedades mexicanas: Láminas, ed. Alfredo Chavero (Mexico City: Junta Colombina de México / Oficina Tipográfica de la Secretaría de Fomento, 1892).
How to Teach an AHR Article
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TeachingHistoriography
Teaching Historiography: Testimony and the Study of the Holocaust
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Historical Podcasts in the Classroom
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Teaching History with Video Games
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Knowing by Sensing: Teaching Sensory History
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#AHRSyllabus Submissions

If you are engaged in an innovative teaching project that focuses on how historians do their work and would like to pitch a module for the #AHRSyllabus, please fill out this form. We consider pitches on a rolling basis and final modules are subject to peer review.

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History in Focus on #AHRSyllabus

Season 2

Episode 8

Teaching Historiography + Chilling Affects
Producer Matt Hermane speaks with Agnieszka Aya Marczyk, Abby Reisman, and Brenda Santos about their #AHRSyllabus piece
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Season 2

Episode 4

History and Video Games + Digital Submission Guidelines
Historian Tore Olsson discusses designing a history course around the popular video game Red Dead Redemption 2. And Kalani Craig...
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Season 2

Episode 1

Teaching History
We discuss the current state of teaching history, from K12 through the college level, and the AHR’s first major entry...
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Introducing the #AHRSyllabus Project

Debuting in September 2023, the #AHRSyllabus project represents the first dedicated space for discussions about teaching and learning in the pages of the American Historical Review. AHR Editor Mark Bradley and AHA Teaching Division Vice President Kathleen Hilliard spoke with with Aya Marczyk and Tore Olsson about modules on teaching with historiography and historical gaming that they developed for this new series.