• Evaluating without Grading

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  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

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  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.
• Teaching Content, Teaching Skills

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  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

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  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.

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• Public History in the Wild

  Rebecca S. Wingo and Lindsey Passenger Wieck | Jul 26, 2021

  When two historians swapped a syllabus over multiple semesters, it improved both the assignments and student experience.
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  Dylan Ruediger | Jun 14, 2021

  History faculty, librarians and archivists, and publishers all have a role to play in preparing students to find and analyze primary sources.
• Reel or Unreal History

  Julianne Johnson | May 19, 2021

  Newsreels, a uniquely 20th-century format, can be a powerful tool for instructors looking to engage students in critical analysis and build media literacy.
• Writing Histories of Witchcraft in a Pandemic

  Richard Tomczak | Mar 1, 2021

  Students at Stony Brook University used a digital humanities project about times of crisis to connect their work on the...
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  Allison Robinson | Dec 3, 2020

  Allison Robinson designed a project to help develop students' digital history skills.

 

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