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American Historical Association
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The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions. historians.org/join
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    American Historical Association
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    Sep 19, 2024
    Today, the AHA published a major report with findings from the most comprehensive study of secondary US history education undertaken in the 21st century. The AHA did not find indoctrination, politicization, or classroom malpractice. (1/10)
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    American Lesson Plan | American Historical Association
    American Lesson Plan: Teaching US History in Secondary Schools reports on insights gathered during a two-year exploration of secondary US history education.
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    American Historical Association
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    Jan 7, 2021
    We know teaching today's events—which are not a “moment,” but the product of a long history—presents a familiar, yet unusually urgent, challenge: how can students use historical knowledge and thinking to understand the present? Here are some resources that might help. #sschat
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    American Historical Association
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    Mar 6, 2023
    The AHA has released a statement opposing #HB999, "express[ing] horror...at the assumptions that lie at the heart of this bill and its blatant and frontal attack on principles of academic freedom and shared governance central to higher education in the US.”
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    AHA Statement Opposing Florida House Bill 999
    The AHA has released a statement on Florida House Bill 999, “express[ing] horror . . . at the assumptions that lie at the heart of this bill and its blatant and frontal attack on principles of...
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    American Historical Association
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    Jan 20, 2021
    The AHA has issued a statement condemning the #1776Report. “Written hastily....without any consultation with professional historians of the United States, the report fails to engage a rich and vibrant body of scholarship" from the past 70 years.
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    AHA Statement Condemning Report of Advisory 1776 Commission
    The AHA has issued a statement condemning the report from “The President’s Advisory 1776 Commission.”
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    American Historical Association
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    Dec 28, 2023
    Contrary to certain media coverage, there is no longer any serious controversy among social studies teachers about slavery’s central role as the cause of the Civil War. Virtually all teachers are teaching their students that the Civil War was about slavery.
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    American Historical Association
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    Sep 24, 2020
    AHA considers “White House Conference on American History" ill-informed, a disservice to history as a discipline, history education, & the nation. To learn from the past we must confront it. A history classroom is an arena for evidence-based exploration.
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    AHA Statement on the Recent "White House Conference on American History” - AHA
    The AHA has issued a statement on last week's “White House Conference on American History” deploring the tendentious use of history and history education.
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    American Historical Association
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    Jun 28, 2019
    The AHA will no longer sponsor employment interviews at its annual meeting. Details here: historians.org/jobs-and-profe…
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    American Historical Association
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    Jun 16, 2021
    .@AAUP, @AHAhistorians, @aacu, and @PENamerica have authored a joint statement stating their "firm opposition" to legislation, introduced in at least 20 states, that would restrict the discussion of “divisive concepts” in public education institutions.
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    Joint Statement on Legislative Efforts to Restrict Education about Racism in American History
    Organizations have authored a joint statement stating their “firm opposition” to legislation that would restrict the discussion of “divisive concepts” in public education institutions.
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    American Historical Association
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    Mar 1, 2019
    There is a new plan at California State University to cut core requirements for U.S. history and civics courses (www2.calstate.edu/csu-system/fac…). Please contact Governor Newsom & ask him to reject this proposal put forth by the CSU General Education Task Force: govapps.gov.ca.gov/gov40mail/
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    American Historical Association
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    Dec 21, 2020
    The AHA submitted a comment encouraging Microsoft Word to enable commenting on footnotes. “Adding the ability to comment on footnotes,” explained @JimGrossmanAHA, “would be of tremendous benefit to historians across the world.”
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    AHA Encourages Microsoft to Allow Editing on Footnotes in Microsoft Word - AHA
    The AHA submitted a comment in support of a campaign to enable commenting on footnotes in Microsoft Word.
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    American Historical Association
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    May 6, 2024
    The AHA has issued a statement “deplor[ing] recent decisions among college and university administrators to draw on local and state police forces to evict peaceful demonstrators.”
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    AHA Statement on 2024 Campus Protests - AHA
    The AHA has issued a statement “deplor[ing] recent decisions among college and university administrators to draw on local and state police forces to evict peaceful demonstrators.”
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    American Historical Association
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    Jun 26, 2020
    The AHA is excited to host David W. Blight and @agordonreed for "Erasing History or Making History? Race, Racism, and the American Memorial Landscape.” Moderated by @JimGrossmanAHA, this virtual event will be held on 7/2 at 12:30 PM. Register at the link! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
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    American Historical Association
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    Aug 30, 2017
    From the AHA Statement on Confederate Monuments... historians.org/news-and-advoc…
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    American Historical Association
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    Sep 7, 2023
    Rather than banning ChatGPT in his history classes, @_jonathansjones created an assignment to teach students what it can and can’t do. He shares this experience in #AHAPerspectives:
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    Students Critique a ChatGPT Essay – AHA
    Asking students to edit an AI-generated essay in class teaches them about what a chatbot can and can’t do.
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