General+Pedagogy

TEACHING RESOURCES

 * I. USEFUL WEBSITES**

**1. The US Survey Course on the web** Excellent website aimed at history hs and college level classes. It annotates over 1,000 history websites as well as provides primary sources and lesson plans. []

This is an excellent website to have students read. It gives examples of where to find historical primary sources, tips on how to assess them and strategies for evaluating primary source websites. []
 * 2. Useful Primary Sources on the web**

Teachers can distribute these handy worksheets from the National Archives to students to aid their analysis of a variety of primary sources. []
 * 3. Document Analysis Worksheets**

The Gilder Lehrman Institute has announced a new issue of //History Now: The American Revolution//. There are articles by historians and suggestions about how to teach the struggle for independence. There are also three short original documentaries about the American Revolution, two of which feature //History Now// editor Carol Berkin. The first is an excellent introduction to //Common Sense//, the second is on Women in the American Revolution, and the third is on the Articles of Confederation. @http://www.historynow.org/09_2009/interactive.html
 * 4. Gilder Lehrman's new issue of //History Now//**

Bill of Rights Institute [] The Bill of Rights Institute focus is the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. They offer a variety of educational programs and instructional materials for teachers. These include Constitutional Seminars around the country, as well as printed and online teachers’ guides for use in history, government, civics, and social studies middle and high school classes.


 * RESOURCES FROM OUR PARTICIPANTS**

1. From Joanna Lewick __Facing History and Ourselves__ [|www.facinghistory.org] Facing History and Ourselves is an organization dedicated to greater understanding of the history of "victims," "bystanders," "upstanders," and "perpetrators." It is much more than the Holocaust, although that is what inspired the organization. It has an endless supply of resources and links on all minority groups.

2. From Ay Soto __Dear America Series__ [] These short movies (1/2 hour) touch on most of our sub-themes. Since they are "mini-movies," and not documentaries, with black and white photos and a narrator, my students are interested and enjoy watching them.

3. From AnnMaria McLeod __American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life 1765-1915__. [] This special exhibition is broken iunto specific time periods designed to chronicle ordinary life as history unfolds. With each visual there is a narrative and a back story, It clearly demonstrates the relationships between, and interactiions among, the various ethnic groups in American society.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
**1. Lincoln and New York** at the New-York Historical Society 77th Street and Central Park West A new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society, on **Lincoln and New York**, opened October 9th and will run through March 25th. Edward Rothstein, of //The New York Times//, raved about the exhibit. You can read his review "When Honet Abe Met This Querulous Metropolis" at [] The exhibit addresses the New York City connection to Abraham Lincoln, the beloved President, as we would like to remember him; a city that had "150,000 mourners stretching almost a mile up Broadway to see him lie in state at City Hall," with the reality of a city that was a "hot-bed of pro-slavery (and anti-Lincoln) politics."

After you see the exhibit, please go to the Discussion Page to discuss the exhibit.

**2. The Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars** are designed to strengthen participants' commitment to high quality history teaching. These weeklong seminars provide intellectual stimulation and a collaborative context for developing practical resources and strategies to take back to the classroom.

Seminars offer: Seminars are limited to 20-25 participants by competitive application. Preference is given to new applicants and this year will be extremely competitive. There are 39 seminars available this year. For more information and to apply online, visit:
 * Room and board
 * Books and teaching resources
 * Stipends up to $400 (international seminar stipend of $500)

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