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Answers to common questions about our mission, website features, and how to get started with Teaching American History.
Our in-person seminars are only for current teachers. You do not have to be a current teacher to participate in our graduate programs and webinars, however. You also do not have to be a teacher to use any of our resources freely available on tah.org or the Digital Atlas at tahdigitalatlas.org.
There is abundant evidence suggesting that learning through primary source-based conversation fosters deeper content knowledge than learning through lectures. Our seminars provide this deeper content knowledge for teachers and equip them to provide this in turn to their students. Primary sources also tend to be of higher quality and of greater historical accuracy than secondary sources. Finally, conversation promotes skills and dispositions supportive of American ideals of liberty and equality.
Answers to more specific questions about our webinars, seminars, and graduate programs.
No, we offer all of our seminars cost-free to districts and teachers.
Each weekend seminar is focused on a specific topic of American history. Depending on the topic, teachers will prepare ahead of time by reading selected documents provided in the course packet. During the seminar, the discussion leader guides a peer-to-peer, text-based conversation among all participants. Meals, materials, single-occupancy rooms, and historical site visits are 100% covered by Teaching American History. At the end of each course, every teacher receives a letter of participation for 15 contact hours and a $600 stipend to cover travel costs. .
TAH weekend/summer teacher seminars are scheduled on a quarterly basis. There will be an application link added on the schedule of programs that is normally open for 10 days. Once the application window is closed, our TAH selection committee will choose which teachers will be invited to the seminar. We aim to keep our discussion groups intimate and manageable with a diversity of experience, geography, and teaching level, so we encourage interested teachers to apply. If you did not submit an application, you will not be selected to attend. Learn more about our Weekend & Summer teacher seminars here.
Every attendee who remains digitally present for the duration of the live webinar will be emailed an official letter of attendance worth 1.25 hours of professional development.
Each district and state have their own standards for professional development. Historically, TAH letters of attendance for all of our programs have been accepted, but attendees should confirm with their licensing institutions.
You can access the school year’s fall and spring webinar series on our Crowdcast channel until July of that year.
We choose topics that highlight our panelists’ expertise and are relevant to current trends in social studies education. We also welcome audience feedback!
Guidance on accessing and using our primary source archive as well as unique classroom resources available for members.
You can use the “Cite” button on each document page to capture the permalink and access date. Original authors and document sources are listed below each excerpt. Please cite the contributor if using material from the introduction.
Our scholars are tasked with choosing the most historically relevant documents on specific topics for our various Core Document volumes, Narrative Histories, and Digital Atlas entries. Those documents are loaded in our document library.
Please email us at [email protected] with any permissions questions.
Many of our documents are lightly excerpted. We use ellipses to represent missing material.
No! Our documents are freely available to the public. In order to create specific document collections and share materials with your peers, we encourage teachers to become members.
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