U.S. History

Research shows that effective learning takes place when content is relevant and students are engaged. This session offers a practical demonstration of how high quality, standards-aligned content from NBC Learn can enable students to develop their analytical and critical thinking skills.

Alarmingly disproportionate populations of African American males occupy U.S. prisons. What does history have to do with it? Participants will explore the transition from Southern plantation to Souther prisons. Christine Adrian will illustrate her classroom teaching method by exploring how current issues that touch her students' lives have roots in U.S. history.   --> read more »

A murder-mystery from the American frontier with global implications inspires inquiry, critical thinking, and 21st-century research skills by inverting Bloom's taxonomy and empowering students as historians. The session is interactive and includes extensive hands-on work with primary documents.

The Zinn Education Project presents historian James W. Loewen (Lies My Teacher Told Me and The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader) on teaching about the Civil War with primary documents.

Native Americans have served in the U.S. military since the American Revolution, and by percentage serve more than any other ethnic group in the armed forces. Join us at a special program as Native veterans share their heroic and unforgettable stories of service in conflicts, and noted scholar and author Herman J.   --> read more »

Come hear how you can use the multimedia approach of the On the Shoulders of Giants Teaching Kit to help today’s media-savvy middle and high school students explore the Harlem Renaissance and its cultural and social significance through the lives of people in literature, music and sports. At the end of this session, we’ll have a raffle for session attendees.   --> read more »

The DBQ Project will overview their materials and professional development, and discuss how they have helped students and teachers grades 4-12 handle the rigorous document analysis and evidence-based writing in World and U.S. History.

How do you construct a curriculum that includes positive representations of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) people, history and events? This session will provide guidance on content development as well as examples of available resources and instructional strategies.

A basic overview of student travel, including trip planning timelines, how to get the most out of your hotel stay, choosing a tour operator, student discipline, choosing chaperones, and some overall statistics of the industry.

See a demonstration and discuss new educational technology tools for teaching American History developed with funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Humanities.