Tag Archives: Teaching History

Civil War Connections & Community Outreach

Posted on March 4, 2019 by juliemujic

Graduate school for academic history is quite the silo. Unless you are entering a public history program, which I did not, the focus is truly on developing enough content knowledge to drive a publishing record and a subsequent career as … Continue reading →

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The Trust’s Teacher Institute: Helping Teachers Teach History More Effectively

Posted on July 19, 2018 by Chris Mackowski

“What do historians do?” Bruce Lesh asks the room full of social studies teachers. The teachers offer answers: Solve problems. Research. Write. Argue. “In that discussion, we leave out the only thing we do in the classroom,” Lesh points out. … Continue reading →

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