education

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
  1/21/20
  

  Rethinking How We Train Historians

  by Rita Chin

  What if we designed a graduate course that accounted for the conditions of the job market and history as a discipline? What if we taught students how to undertake the work of historical scholarship in a collaborative manner that more closely resembles the way labor is organized in today’s society, both inside and outside of academia?

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  1/21/20
  

  What Will the Museums of the Future Be Like?

  Help the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History by taking this brief survey to share what you’d like to see from *your* National Museum.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  1/16/20
  

  How Political Divides Shape U.S. History Lessons

  Partisan politics are making their way into school textbooks, reports The New York Times. We dig into the report.

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• SOURCE: Yes! Magazine
  1/9/20
  

  How Educators Are Rethinking The Way They Teach Immigration History

  Feauting quotes from historian Greg Grandin. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/13/20
  

  Historians Respond to NY Times Article on History Textbook Regional Differences

  Featuring Kevin Kruse and other educators. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/12/20
  

  Two States. Eight Textbooks. Two American Stories.

  American history textbooks can differ across the country, in ways that are shaded by partisan politics.

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• SOURCE: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
  1/5/20
  

  The Role of History Educators in a Time of Crisis: Building Bridges Between Historians and K-12 History Teachers

  by Sari Beth Rosenberg

  Updates and insight from a panel at the American Historical Association. 

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  1/5/20
  

  Why fewer US students want to learn about UK these days

  Once a bastion of English and History departments, the British studies discipline is waning as American students increasingly put career goals over their love of Charles Dickens, writes James Jeffrey.

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• 12/29/19
  

  Why Holocaust Education Is So Important Today

  by Claudia Moscovici

  The Never Again Education Act is an effort by a bipartisan group of US legislators in both the House and the Senate to promote Holocaust education.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  12/12/19
  

  The Tragedy of the Yale Commons

  by Jim Sleeper

  How private equity baron Stephen Schwarzman has steamrolled our civic culture.

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• 12/15/19
  

  Why Colleges Need a Required Class in African American History

  by David Barber

  The real test for our campus is not how loudly we denounce white supremacy, how “disgusting” we find it, but how steadfastly we commit ourselves to really educating our students in the history of this country, a country born in white supremacy.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/11/19
  

  How teachers advocating for their students could backfire

  by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz

  It reinforces the view of teachers as self-sacrificing servants instead of highly trained professionals.  

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• 1/19/20
  

  Digesting History: A Conversation with the Museum of Food and Drink’s Curatorial Director Catherine Piccoli

  by Chelsea Connolly

  Food historian Catherine Piccoli describes how this Brooklyn museum encourages its visitors to literally "digest" history.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  12/3/19
  

  Why Did U.N.C. Give Millions to a Neo-Confederate Group?

  by William Sturkey

  The University of North Carolina’s settlement over a controversial statue is a subsidy for white nationalism.

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
  12/2/19
  

  James Grossman Writes Article on Career Diversity: "Revising Revisited: Words Matter When It Comes to Career Diversity"

  by James Grossman

  Historians need to write and speak carefully. A single word or phrase, a particularly evocative metaphor, can undermine a nuanced argument pointing in a very different direction.

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• 12/1/2019
  

  Losing Sight of Jefferson and Falling into Plato

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  Socratic Styled Teaching in Twenty-First Century American Classrooms

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/21/19
  

  Don’t despair if your teen wants to major in history instead of science

  by Ian Milligan

  Choosing to become a history major is a future-friendly investment. A history degree teaches skills that are in short supply today: the ability to interpret context, and — crucially — where we’ve been, so as to better understand the world around us today and tomorrow.

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• SOURCE: Times Higher Education
  11/21/19
  

  Ten rules for succeeding in academia through upward toxicity

  by Irina Dumitrescu

  Universities preach meritocracy but, in reality, bend over backwards to protect toxic personalities. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/15/19
  

  Teaching impeaching: History comes to life in school as teachers seize on this historic moment. Here’s what some are doing — and how.

  “All too often, we look at history as these singular events that happened long ago. We sometimes try to connect many of those events to the present, but we fail to realize sometimes that the events that are unfolding around us every day are historic, too."

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
  11/14/19
  

  Using Digital History in the Classroom

  New to digital history? These three steps may help you incorporate #DigHist into your classroom.