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APP: Ken Burns Unveils New App

The app, “Ken Burns,” allows users to surf a timeline year by year, seeing how clips from each film line up chronologically with each other…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Feb 10, 2014

FILM: New Indie Civil War Film 'The Retrieval'

Out in limited release April 2014, looks sad / interesting and like a possible companion to 12 Years a Slave (see also BLOG: Take Your Stud…

Started by Ryan Goble

0 Jan 20, 2014

TV: MLK & Related Programming

A brief list of upcoming television programming. Date Time Network Title of Program January 20  8:00-10am HISTORY KING (documentar…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Jan 15, 2014

EXHIBIT: 1964-Civil Rights @ 50

The Newseum, Washington DC, has just opened "1964: Civil Rights At 50" featuring powerful photographs of freedom summer.  Associated lesson…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Jan 14, 2014

STUDY: Half of Civics Teachers Devote Little Time to News Literacy

Education Week reports:  A new report finds that just half of high school civics and American government teachers devote one or more units…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Jan 14, 2014

DOC: 1964- A Pivotal Year in History

It was the year The Beatles came to America and Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali; the year Barry Goldwater’s conservative revolution took o…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Jan 14, 2014

Introduce Historical Personages with Graphic Novels

If your students come to you with little general knowledge about historical personages, consider assigning them to read graphic novels as a…

Started by Anna J. Small Roseboro

0 Jan 12, 2014

March, Book One

March, Book One is the first of a trilogy chronicling the life and times of John Lewis, a US Congressman, civil rights activist, and the l…

Started by Stergios Botzakis

0 Jan 5, 2014

DOC: How Photography Captured 2013

The story of 2013 is told through the high-impact images of the year, exploring how photography has changed in the age of smartphones, soci…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Jan 1, 2014

BLOG: Take Your Students to see "12 Years a Slave?" This Teacher Did.

Read the complete blog at EdWeek.    

Started by Ryan Goble

0 Dec 24, 2013

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