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General Resources

• 360 Education Solutions

Teaching the Constitution

• Constitution Day Lessons Plans

Teaching History

• Grade Inflation ... Why It's a Nightmare By Jonathan Dresner

• Where History is Making News Around the World: Teaching Students that History Matters

• Join in the Discussion: Teaching Kids Who Find History Boring

• William Fitzhugh: Why Writing History Term Papers Is Vital

• What Students Don't Know About History

• Timothy Burke: Historical Argument From Soup to Nuts

• The End of the High School History Term Paper?

• Illogic in Public Discourse: How History Is Misused By Jonathan Dresner

• What's Wrong with High School History Textbooks

• Classroom Lesson Plans: Helping Teachers Teach History

• Top Educator Sites Ranked by Popularity -- sitesforteachers.com

• Does History Make Students Better Citizens? (And How Do We Measure that?)

• What Do Our Students Know? by Allan M. Winkler

• How to Deal with Textbooks in the Classroom by James Loewen

• My Experience Teaching Apathetic Students at a School with Open Admissions by Thomas Reeves

• How to Teach World History for Advanced Placement Classes.

• No, You Don't Have to Teach History After You Get Your Ph.D.

• Do Students Care About History? by Anders Henriksson

• Don’t Know Much About History by Jane Hall

• Getting Students to Like History Is Not Impossible
  by Cathy Gorn
  

• Rate the Losers: A Game to Teach Students Important Lessons of History by Robert Cook

• Should Students Be Allowed to Get Away with Plagiarism?
  by Matthew Warshauer
  

• We Need to Develop New Ways to Teach Students History by Sam Wineburg

• Now Clinton's History: Building a Course Around His Presidency by Lewis Gould
  

• Should We Be Alarmed by the Results of the Latest U.S. History Test? (Yes) by Diane Ravitch

• Should We Be Alarmed by the Results of the Latest U.S. History Test? In Answer to Diane Ravitch by Ron Briley

• The Test 12th Graders Flunked by HNN Staff
  

• So You Want to Try Writing an Online Course? by Kimberly J. Morse and Lewis L. Gould
  

Teaching the Middle East

• Islam, Islamism: A Guide for Teachers

• Guide to the History of Saudi Arabia

  

• Everything You Need to Know About the History of Iraq

• Ways of Thinking About the War with Iraq by Peter L. Hahn

• War and the Campuses by Paul Rogat Loeb

Teaching 9-11

• 9/11: Five Years Later

• Teaching About 9-11 (Overview)

• Poll: Has 9-11 Changed the Way Historians Teach History? by HNN Staff

• Classroom Lesson Plans: Teaching About 9-11

• Dickinson College: The Clarke Center's Teaching 9-11

• What Should We Tell Our Children About 9-11?

• Are College Textbooks Miseducating Students About Terrorism?

• What Books Are Helpful in Understanding 9-11?

• Memories: September 11 Digital Archive

• Abstract: The OAH Special 9-11 Edition

• Resources: History of U.S. Interventions

• Smithsonian Exhibit on 9-11

Teaching Presidential Elections

• HNN Guide: Who Should Be the Next Commander-in-Chief? Moral Leader-in-Chief? Educator-in-Chief? Statesman-in-Chief? Politician-in-Chief?

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