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Recovering and Teaching Local History
Local history has a profound effect on our communities. It’s up to educators to learn and teach students about the hard history in their own backyards.
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Celebrating Black History Month by Teaching Hard History
Black history is American history—and it should be taught year round. But Black History Month offers a great opportunity to focus attention on the history and contributions of African Americans. This edition of The Moment features a few of our favorite black history resources: the text "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" (the "Black National Anthem"), our new materials on effectively teaching about American slavery and our article about one teacher’s commitment to “mining the jewel" of February each year.
- The Courage to Teach Hard History
- Mining the Jewel of Black History Month
- Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing
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Rural Schools and Hard History
The rich history and diversity of rural communities have largely been erased. Appreciating both charts a promising path forward.
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The True History of Voting Rights
In this lesson, students learn about the expansion and restriction of voting rights in the United States, examine court rulings, discuss voter disengagement, and explore a voting rights timeline. Students will also learn how to register to vote.
October 8, 2020
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Preserving a More Honest History
Want to take a field trip to a historic home or plantation? Here’s how to choose one that honors the enslaved people who lived and worked there.
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Executive Orders and Checks and Balances
Looking for straightforward information about executive orders to share with your students? Teaching Tolerance Director Maureen Costello breaks it down.
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‘Hope, Despair and Memory’
"Hope, Despair and Memory" is an address given by Elie Wiesel on December 11, 1986, the date Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Wiesel is an author and humanitarian and is known for writing about his experience as a survivor of the Holocaust.
July 5, 2014
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Z and Vielpunkt
Two male penguins finally get the egg they’ve been hoping for—based on a true story!
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To Know Our American History Is to Know Ourselves
What does the rise in hate groups and hate crimes say about our American history and American democracy when all lives should matter?
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Women’s Rights—Women’s History
The struggle for equality and justice for all women is not relegated to history; it is the lived experience of women today in the United States and around the world.
March 1, 2024