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Aguilera, Jocelyn Isabel – History Teacher, 2023
Examining the political activism of high school students provides a window to fully understand the rich history and resistance of young people of color from South Central Los Angeles who blazed the trail in many crucial battles during the civil rights era. Researching John C. Fremont High School's history shows that the high school reflects a…
Descriptors: Activism, High School Students, Females, Minority Groups
deGuzman, Jean-Paul R. Contreras – History Teacher, 2023
"Why do people hate history classes?" That is a common question that the author, like countless other history instructors, poses to his students on the first day of class. From a recent survey of the author's "Introduction to Asian American History" course, which the author has taught at the University of California, Los…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, United States History, Museums, History Instruction
Gossard, Julia M. – History Teacher, 2023
There is a general perception that methods courses are not as interesting as upper-division content courses. The author admits that they were among those who believed this. In this essay, the author explains how they used backwards design to structure the "History Research Methods" course and how they scaffolded assignments throughout…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), History Instruction, Research Methodology, Courses
Kokozos, Michael – History Teacher, 2023
As a Social Studies teacher and LGBTQ+ educator, the author has explored and critiqued the shortcomings of inclusion in education, especially by exposing curricular patterns that neglect or oversimplify the identities of queer individuals, if not erase them altogether. Through leading workshops, the author has learned about the challenges faced by…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, United States History, Social Studies, Inclusion
Stebbins, Abigail; Van Haren, Kate – History Teacher, 2023
As former elementary classroom teachers and current teacher educators, the authors teach, research, and advocate for anti-oppressive elementary social studies education. In their current role as teacher educators, they consider it our responsibility and mission to facilitate a social studies methods course that prepares pre-service teachers (PSTs)…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Preservice Teacher Education, Social Studies, Primary Sources
Cox, Darrin; Bauer-Leffler, Simon – History Teacher, 2023
Living history, and/or reenactment, brings the lives and experiences of a past age into the modern era to provide a contextualized interpretation of long-gone cultures. Academic literature suggests that presentations by properly trained living historians at historical sites and museums are connected to more positive visitor experience and…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Elementary School Students, High School Students, Knowledge Level
Traille, Kay – History Teacher, 2023
"Isn't this just common sense? I don't see the point of having to read this," a student in a pre-service introductory methods class groaned. In another class, a student questioned why so much space in an article was devoted to race, stating that it seemed unnecessary and was "common sense." While the pre-service teachers…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Social Justice, Race, Preservice Teacher Education
Bagerius, Henric; Dahl, Izabela A.; Engren, Jimmy – History Teacher, 2023
The purpose of this article is to discuss the opportunities and challenges of using students' personal narratives of the past as a vehicle and catalyst for learning history. The point of departure is a research project entitled "My Historical Backpack," conducted at Örebro University in Sweden since the fall of 2016. The project is a…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, College School Cooperation
Alexander, David Ross – History Teacher, 2023
It was a quest that began over three decades ago when the author began teaching at the Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute (OSCVI) in 1984. The school had a long, storied history dating back to 1856 when it first opened its doors to students from Owen Sound and the surrounding area. As a teacher of a survey course in Canadian history…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, War, Death
Catalano, D. Chase J.; Schrum, Kelly; Fay, Erin; Abbot, Sophia – History Teacher, 2023
Today, close to 300 graduate-level higher education and student affairs (HESA) programs exist nationally, and the Council for the Advancement of Standards (CAS) recommends studying the historical context of higher education as part of the curriculum. The strong social justice emphasis within HESA programs offers a valuable hook for introducing the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Higher Education, Social Justice, Relevance (Education)
Sundberg, Sara Brooks – History Teacher, 2023
The class research project, "Chronicling Grassroots Suffrage in Warrensburg," served as a semester-long project for the Fall 2019 course, "Democracy Denied: Women's Rights in America, 1800-Present." This paper argues that local and state history research projects like "Chronicling Grassroots Suffrage in Warrensburg"…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Archives, Primary Sources, Democracy
Draper, Mary – History Teacher, 2023
Teaching about slavery entails teaching about the archive. Punctuated with silences, scattered with compelling details, and laden with descriptions that oscillate between racist, harrowing, and heartbreaking, runaway ads provide a glimpse into the lives of enslaved people. The details embedded within them--or omitted from them--can also provide…
Descriptors: Slavery, Undergraduate Students, Biographies, Writing (Composition)
Strom, Claire; Strom, Phoebe; Walton, Rachel; Ewing, Hannah – History Teacher, 2023
In 2014, at Rollins College, a liberal arts college in central Florida, the history department completely revised its curriculum. Like their peers across the history discipline, Rollins history faculty saw a disconnect between its traditional curriculum--with a stress on lecture and memorization--and the actual process of doing history. Colleges…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Curriculum Development, Skill Development, Primary Sources
Martell, Christopher C.; Stevens, Kaylene M. – History Teacher, 2023
Movements have been the driving force of social change through most of human history. Yet despite the important impacts that movements had in the past that led to a more just present, most Americans generally hold low opinions of movements. The authors see this as a major failing of history education. The authors argue for a need to center the…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Social Action, Social Change, Curriculum Development
Patricia Juárez-Dappe – History Teacher, 2023
During the past decade, interest in chocolate and its history has increased significantly. Following on this trend, a vast number of books dealing with chocolate have appeared in different publishing venues, both academic and nonacademic. Similarly, some instructors have included units that study the commodity or, in some rare instances, have…
Descriptors: Food, Foods Instruction, Cultural Context, Course Descriptions