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Teaching the 2024 Elections
What Makes a Democracy?
In the Summer of 2020, we produced What Makes a Democracy, a Teaching with Primary Sources workshop sponsored by the Library of Congress . In the midst of a global pandemic and an unprecedented racial reckoning, with all the uncertainty and unsettledness that that meant, we still had more than 50 educators show up to…Continue Reading What Makes a Democracy?
The Struggle Over Suffrage—Then and Now
Three weeks from an election that many argue will determine the future of our democracy, teachers are grappling with how to adequately guide their students through the constant stream of news about efforts to imperil voting for specific groups. From felons’ voting rights being restored and subsequently limited due to penalty fines, to the closing…Continue Reading The Struggle Over Suffrage—Then and Now
The Pledge of Allegiance
The Pledge of Allegiance is a staple of the American experience. Whether it be reciting it at the beginning of the school day or at a major league baseball game, our communities engage with it. But do your students know that the Pledge includes the word “indivisible” rather than “invisible?” And more importantly, have they…Continue Reading The Pledge of Allegiance