U.S. History Ideas for Teachers

How to teach what matters and do it well: lesson ideas, pedagogical questions and other resources for U.S. history teachers that focus on essential questions, critical thinking and making history meaningful.

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Lauren S. Brown: A veteran teacher, Lauren has over 20 years in the classroom, teaching middle school, high school and college. Most of that teaching has been U.S. history, grades 7th, 8th and 11th. Lauren has a master’s degree in U.S. history from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her undergraduate degree is in American Studies from the University of Michigan. She also did graduate work in history, social studies and education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Please also check out her contributions to the "Future of History" blog on Middleweb.com. Find her recent work on Substack: https://laurenbrownoned.substack.com/

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U.S. History Ideas for Teachers

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Lesson Ideas: Political Independence in the American Colonies

Why We Can't "Save" Teaching Slavery until Our Civil War Unit

What Gets Lost in the Controversy over the New APUSH Framework

A Method for How to Plan a Unit Using Essential Questions: Colonial America

Ferguson, MO & Emmett Till: How Our Understanding of History Informs Our Present

The Practical Problem of Coverage, or How to get past WWII by May

Teaching Columbus