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)
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
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.”
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.
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.
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.
.@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.
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/
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.”
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.”
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…
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: