Teaching Resources & Strategies

  • Hide the Key

    Lauran Kerr-Heraly | May 2, 2023

    At Houston Community College, one history professor partnered with colleagues across the institution to create a customizable escape room.
  • Deep in the Heart of Teaching

    Kathleen Hilliard | Nov 28, 2022

    Two days at the AHA’s Texas Conference gave the VP of the Teaching Division much to think about.
  • Title IX at 50

    Bonnie J. Morris | Jun 23, 2022

    After 25 years teaching the history of women's athletics, Bonnie J. Morris has suggestions for how to incorporate the history...
  • AHA22 Online

    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?

    Trinidad Gonzales | Feb 2, 2022

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

    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

    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

    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.

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