Moving Freedom Forward: Teaching a More Inclusive History

FAIN: AH-300526-24

National History Day, Inc. (College Park, MD 20740)
Cathy Gorn (Project Director: December 2023 to present)

A two-year cooperative agreement that would produce a new volume of classroom resources as part of NEH’s longstanding relationship with NHD, in response to the U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism.

National History Day’s Inclusive History Initiative combines teacher training and curriculum development to enhance classroom teaching and student learning, moving beyond the textbook and into the depth and breadth of history. That initiative includes a series of volumes of essays and lessons that address the histories of marginalized communities. The second volume will focus on Jewish and Jewish American History. NHD will begin in May 2024 to solicit historians and master teachers to research and write the essays and lessons for “L’dor V’dor”: Teaching Jewish History from Generation to Generation. As with others in this series, the volume on Jewish and Jewish American history will comprise articles of approximately 1,500–2,500 words, each one by noted scholars, and lesson plans crafted by NHD identified teachers. NHD will collaborate with the NEH to identify the scholars to craft and edit the specific article topics.