Ragland And Woestman, Eds., The Teaching American History Project

Lessons For History Educators And Historians

Abstract

This book delivers the first scholarly examination of the Teaching American History Project, which awards grants to colleges, universities, local educational agencies, schools, libraries, museums, and nonprofit historical and humanities institutions, to improve instruction in American history. The editors are Rachel Ragland, assistant professor of education at Lake Forest College near Chicago, and Kelly Woestman, a former teacher who now is professor of history and history education director at Pittsburg State University in Kansas. The editors have organized the book well. Its contents include a foreword by leading education researcher Sam Wineburg, a preface by the editors, and four sections: Emerging Practices for Historians: Introduction, Emerging Practices for Classroom Teachers: Introduction, Emerging Practices for Professional Development: Introduction, and Emerging Practices in the Larger Perspective: Introduction. The editors frame each section with an introduction that articulates the themes and overviews the chapters in each section.