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Pamela Cummings, a 2021 MAHG grad and 2023 Arkansas History Teacher of the Year is one of America's unsung heros

Pamela Cummings

Pamela Cummings, a graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program, is 2023 “Arkansas History Teacher of the Year.” The award, given by the Gilder

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Larry Dorenkamp

Larry Dorenkamp uses aphorisms to communicate life lessons to students in his 8th grade American history course at North Hills Middle School, near Pittsburgh. “Words matter,” he says, emphasizing the

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Anne Hester makes a speech on the first day of each school year.

Anne Hester

Anne Hester, a 2017 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program, teaches two advanced versions of US history at East Lee County High School

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Texas teacher Amber McMunn explained scheduling reasons that keep students from learning about critical decades following the defeat of the Confederacy.

Amber McMunn

A desire to see the world outside of Texas led Amber McMunn to do her undergraduate work at Brigham Young University. Love of history determined her choice of major.  An

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Robin Hornberger, MAHG student, embraces the long-distance run

Robin Hornberger

Like all successful American history teachers, Robin Hornberger has learned to pace herself so as to cover a large amount of history in a year’s time. Preparing students for all

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Reid Benson offers an honest account and hopeful questions about US history

Reid Benson

“In my Native American history class, I’m trying to step back a little from all the negative history,” says Reid Benson, who is in his 12th year of teaching history

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Henry Adeoye

Henry Adeoye Teaches Citizenship Henry Adeoye, an immigrant to America from Nigeria, teaches American history to eighth graders, most of whom are growing up in families who immigrated to America

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Win Anderson, Minnesota High School Government teacher, MAHG grad and Madison Fellow

Win Anderson

Why the Founders Wanted Limited Government “For most of my students, the idea of federalism is a mind blower,” says Win Anderson,  who teaches general level and Advanced Placement United

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Jody Glass, High School teacher in Clinton, TN and MAHG student

Jody Glass

Jody Glass helps students see around the obstacles that constrict their vision of who they can become. She’s in her sixth year of teaching, a second career for her, after

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Marc Turner, 2022 MAHG Graduate, prepared lesson plans on some of the uncelebrated heroes of his adopted state, South Carolina.

Marc Turner

Illuminating the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina As soon as he learned that he could write a capstone project as the culminating work for his Master of Arts in

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