• What Difference Does a Pandemic Make?

  Features

  Julia Brookins | Dec 22, 2021

  New data shows that COVID-19 did not result in an immediate catastrophic drop for history enrollments.
• Missing Women

  Features

  Bridget Riley | Dec 8, 2021

  One teacher assigned her seventh-grade students to create podcasts to make up for the lack of women's history in their textbook.
• Gaps, Plots, and Narration

  Features

  Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Nov 10, 2021

  Jeffrey Wasserstrom argues for the value of assigning historical fiction alongside more traditional nonfiction readings.
• The Purpose of Purposeful Ignorance

  Perspectives Daily

  R. Raoul Meyer | Nov 3, 2021

  History starts with questions, and behind genuine questions is a humble acknowledgment of not knowing.

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• Teach Your Family

  Rachel Mesch, Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, and Annette Joseph-Gabriel | Oct 14, 2021

  A pandemic-inspired twist on class presentations, Teach Your Family asks students to think not only about conveying information but also...
• Playing with the Past

  Patrick Rael | Oct 13, 2021

  Board games encourage history students to imagine changing historical outcomes and discuss counterfactuality and contingency, while covering the entire range of Bloom's taxonomy of learning.
• Common Schooling and the Common Good

  Jacqueline Jones | Oct 12, 2021

  Public schools are an essential part of American society, with a long history.
• Evaluating without Grading

  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

  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.

 

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