History Instructional Materials and Support Project

FAIN: AH-275540-20

National Association of Scholars, Inc. (New York, NY 10017-1197)
David Randall (Project Director: May 2020 to October 2021)

In order to promote awareness of high standards of quality for existing U.S. history textbooks, NAS will develop and preserve on the NAS website a white paper that contains within it sample evaluations of the treatment of select periods in U.S. history in four American history textbooks, and a concluding essay on how to generalize these evaluations. The audience for this work will be professors, K-12 teachers, education administrators, policymakers, and interested citizens who may use comparative, standardized critiques to facilitate evaluation and improvement of history textbooks. Sub-recipient American Achievement Testing (AAT) and its consultants, including historian Wilfred McClay, will develop high quality U.S. history instructional units to be used in conjunction with McClay’s highly readable U.S. history textbook, Land of Hope (2019), widely praised for being deeply informed by the principles of the Founding. The main audience is educators who will use the units in their teachi

Associated Products

History Instructional Materials and Support (Report)
Title: History Instructional Materials and Support
Author: David Randall
Author: Bruce P. Frohnen
Author: Jason C. Ross
Author: Kevin R.C. Gutzman
Author: William Pettinger
Abstract: This report reviews several regular and AP U.S. History textbooks, analyzes their contributions and errors, and provides a window into the general operations of American history textbooks.
Date: 12/1/2020
Primary URL: https://www.nas.org/storage/app/media/New%20Documents/History%20Textbooks.pdf
Primary URL Description: Online PDF of the report
Access Model: Open Access
ISBN: 9780965314381

History Instructional Materials and Support - Curricular Materials (Course or Curricular Material)
Title: History Instructional Materials and Support - Curricular Materials
Author: Wilfred M. McClay
Author: Theodor Rebarber
Author: Kathleen Madigan
Author: John McBride
Author: Patrick Allitt
Abstract: Course Overview The AAT Curriculum sees the proper study of American history as the centerpiece in the making of citizens, and the cultivation of an informed and reflective love of country. Because Americans are linked together not by blood and soil, but by the principles and history we share, it is essential that these things be passed down. This is one of the central tasks of education, and we cannot afford to fail in it. Instructional Units The Instructional Units for US History are built using evidenced based practices that require students to actively engage with primary and secondary sources. Teachers are provided thematic units that trace historical content chronologically aligned with the textbook Land of Hope by Wilfred McClay (2019). Each unit has a pacing guide (recommended number of days and time needed per lesson), an instructional sequence, plus a complete set of teacher materials with sample student materials. Teacher materials include: essential vocabulary words to help at risk readers access the text, selected original sources, close analytic and critical reading guidelines for text based materials, timeline activities with images, discussion guides for selected topics in each unit, note-taking strategies, and assignments designed to develop writing historical narrative and arguments.
Year: 2020
Primary URL: https://www.aateducation.org/mediafeed/search?ext=pdf&keyword=&type=application/pdf&folder=
Primary URL Description: Course materials
Audience: K - 12

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