Teacher Podcasts for Preserving American Freedom
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Teacher Podcasts for Preserving American Freedom
This podcast series for teachers provides inspiration in how historians themselves teach with primary documents effectively in the classroom. Listen to the historians themselves talk about various time periods pertaining to the essays they wrote about and how they personally use primary documents in the classroom to illuminate key ideals espoused during those times. In addition, hear a curriculum specialist discuss how Preserving American Freedom can be instrumental in meeting the new Common Core Standards.
This series was created by Alexandra Rospond,a University of the Arts Museum Education Graduate student and Education Intern at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
 Sally Flaherty talks about how Preserving American Freedom fulfills Pennsylvania and Common Core standards.
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 Eric Foner explores the centrality of freedom to America’s identity and its complicated legacy.
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 Richard Newman talks about the use that primary sources play in learning about the fight for freedom for African Americans in the 19th century. |
 In the late 19th century and early 20th century, Walter Licht explores who is considered a rightful citizen of the United States and what rights and liberties these citizens could or could not exercise.
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 David Reader wrote the lessons plans for Preserving American Freedom and talks about as a teacher using primary sources in the classroom and how other teachers can utilize Preserving American Freedom in their own classrooms as well.
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