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Resources for Veterans Day

How do your students celebrate Veterans Day?

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Elizabeth Glynn on Using Art to Create Interdisciplinary Classrooms

Use art to teach both history and how disciplines are interconnected, [...] »

Valerie Tripp's Looking Backward, Looping Forward: How to Make a Period of History Matter to Your Students

Start with memoirs or historical fiction and small issues children can [...] »

Teachinghistory.org Teacher Representative Wins 2011 National History Teacher of the Year

Congratulations to Stacy Hoeflich, the 2011 National History Teacher of the [...] »

Amy Burvall's Life as a TechnoTroubadour

Can you use music and creativity to help students structure what they know? [...] »

Film Review: John Adams

Does John Adams depart too far from history to be useful in the [...] »

Joe Jelen: Old Newspapers Find a Home in New Technology

Newspapers are alive and well in the U.S. history classroom.

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Resources for Columbus Day

Is Columbus Day just another school day (or day off), or a teachable moment [...] »

Jeremiah McCall on Using Simulation Games in the History Classroom

How can you teach—not just distract—with digital games?

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The Connection Between Literacy and History

Even if you're not an English teacher, you're still a literacy teacher.

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