History Assessments for Distance Learning
Get an idea for how you can use our free history assessments to teach students various historical thinking skills!
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Getting Started with Reading Like a Historian Lessons
Looking for history materials for distance learning? Explore our Reading Like a Historian curriculum for over 150 free document-based lessons!
Civic Online Reasoning in the New York Times
The New York Times featured our COR curriculum.
New Year, New History Materials 2020
New Year, New History Materials! Explore all of our new history lessons and assessments.
Sam Wineburg on MSNBC
"Our students are driving on the information highway without so much as a driver's license." Watch Sam Wineburg on MSNBC.
New Civic Online Reasoning Website
Our Civic Online Reasoning curriculum is now available!
Washington Post Article
Our latest research is featured by The Washington Post.
Research Featured by The Chronicle of Higher Education
"Students Fall for Misinformation Online. Is Teaching Them to Read Like Fact Checkers the Answer?" Read about SHEG's research in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
How We Can Teach Gen Z a Better Kind of Media Literacy
In his latest article, featured in Pacific Standard, Sam Wineburg discusses how to teach students a better kind of media literacy.
The Internet is Sowing Mass Confusion. We Must Rethink How We Teach Kids Every Subject.
In his latest op-ed, Sam Wineburg writes that "bringing education into the 21st century demands that we rethink how we teach every subject in the curriculum."
Why California's New Media Literacy Law for Schools Could Backfire
California passes new law that aims to promote the teaching and learning of media literacy in public schools.
We're Teaching History Wrong
Sam Wineburg discusses his newest book in an interview featured in Slate.
New Research on History Assessment Appears in Cognition & Instruction
Read our latest research about history assessments in the journal of Cognition and Instruction.
Lateral Reading: Reading Less and Learning More Online
Sam Wineburg and Sarah McGrew's paper on lateral reading is available to read now.
What Is Learned in College History Classes?
What Is Learned in College History Classes? Read about our latest history education research in the Journal of American History: https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jax434
If you don't have access to JAH, you can read a pre-publication of the paper here: https://purl.stanford.edu/dj911vz8602