• Evaluating without Grading

  Features

  Luke Clossey and Esther Souman | Sep 14, 2021

  Mastering a skill is at the heart of the specifications grading system.
• The Professor as a Primary Source

  Perspectives Daily

  Julianne Johnson | Sep 9, 2021

  In telling students about her experiences on September 11, 2001, Julianne Johnson makes herself the primary source—and demonstrates the interplay of history, testimony, and memory.
• Professional Practice and Effort Rewarded

  Annual Meeting, Perspectives Daily

  Kevin Diestelow | Sep 1, 2021

  Should undergraduate students attend the AHA annual meeting? One attendee emphatically says yes.
• Repair and Reconnection

  From the Teaching Division

  Shannon Bontrager, Alexandra Hui, Katharina Matro, and Laura McEnaney | Aug 18, 2021

  After the pandemic upended so many of our classroom routines, what will "back to school" mean?

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• Teaching Content, Teaching Skills

  Katharina Matro | Aug 17, 2021

  Teaching history at the high school level does not need to default to teaching skills alone, as Katharina Matro found...
• Motivate, Situate, Evidence, Illustrate

  Joseph D. Martin | Aug 16, 2021

  Educators might better serve students by dragging the complexities of the primary–secondary source divide into the light earlier in their education, and more often.
• “The Culture Wars—They’re Back!”

  Laura Ansley | Aug 11, 2021

  From local school board meetings to state legislatures to the US Capitol, Americans are fired up about what should, and...
• A Glimpse Behind the Curtain

  Hayley R. Bowman | Jul 29, 2021

  Podcasts offer an innovative pedagogical tool, capable of collapsing space and time in a way that reading, writing, and even attending a lecture cannot.
• Remote Reflections

  Sarah Hensler | Jun 24, 2021

  The Soviet history of the Bolshoi Ballet captivated one undergraduate who used that topic to learn essential research skills and...

 

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