• AHA22 Online

  AHA Online, Annual Meeting, Features

  AHA Staff | Mar 15, 2022

  Read about a selection of sessions that took place during AHA22 Online in late February.
• How Well Do You Know Your Students?

  Perspectives Daily

  Trinidad Gonzales | Feb 2, 2022

  Asking students about their lives can help instructors better accommodate their circumstances.
• 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.

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• The Purpose of Purposeful Ignorance

  R. Raoul Meyer | Nov 3, 2021

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