There is something missing from the way many teach and learn history. Due to an all too common lack of emotion in the way it is taught, history is often thought as a brutally boring subject. We all ...

One of the most exciting elements of historical research is getting to dive into primary sources like letters, diaries, memoirs, speeches, and debates. In all of our lower-division classes, you will ...

Hundreds of PreK-12 teaching and learning resources that support developmentally appropriate skill-building and leverage both well-known and lesser-known stories in American history are freely ...

STEM careers may be promoted as the wave of the future, but history advocates say students still need to know about the past. Historical research can teach critical-thinking skills useful to any ...

How forward thinking it is to have a plan for educating our children based on age appropriate materials, beginning with children’s communities and progressing to the place of the United States in the ...

Lauren Harris, 8, threw an ax for the first time in July and hit a stump at Howard Harter Park in Yuba City, while a man who teaches frontier skills, her mom, brother and more than 50 children watched ...

There is a saying that those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it. That was meant to have a negative connotation. But what if we do learn from history does that somehow ...

Generative AI, the transformative technology of the moment, exploded onto the scene with the arrival in late 2022 of ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbox developed by the company OpenAI. After only five ...

In the last stanzas of the 1926 poem “I, too,” Langston Hughes writes: “Tomorrow, / I’ll be at the table / When company comes. / Nobody’ll dare / Say to me, / ‘Eat in the kitchen,’ / Then. / Besides, ...

The Yankton community has been home to the Dakota Territorial Museum for 82 years. Now the museum can continue to grow after a recent move. But it’s in a location you might not expect. The Mead ...