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Ohio Teacher Lucas George, 2022 Gilder Lehrman History Teacher of the Year and recent MAHG grad.

Lucas George

“History is the best subject,” says Lucas George, a recent graduate of the MAHG program who was named 2022 Ohio History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute.

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Jamie Karaffa, 2021 Master of Arts in American History and Government grad and Milken Award Winner

Jamie Karaffa

In April 2022, officials from the Maine Department of Education visited Whittier Middle School, in the small town of Poland. There was every reason to expect they had come to

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Stephanie Nelson, 2021 Master of Arts in American History and Government grad

Stephanie Nelson

At a recent Teaching American History weekend seminar in San Diego, Stephanie Nelson revisited what she came to enjoy while studying in the Master of Arts in American History and

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Kate Milburn, Teacher in Idaho Connects, MD & OD participant

Kate Milburn

Kate Milburn will travel far to attend Teaching American History seminars. She has attended several multi-day programs, each time coming home eager to share new primary documents with students in

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Rachelle Friedman, teacher at Lycée Français de New York and MD participant

Rachelle Friedman

When Rachelle Friedman received an email from Teaching American History announcing a multi-day seminar on “The Political Theory of the American Founding,” she signed up for it, because it “sounded

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Virginia Boles, MAHG student and teacher at Oakcrest School in VA

Ginny Boles

Ginny Boles needed to build her content knowledge in American history. Paradoxically, her love of this history had led her to major in classics as an undergraduate at UCLA, so

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Michelle Adams Alderfer

Beginning her capstone project for the Master of Arts in American History and Government, Texas teacher Michelle Adams Alderfer wanted to help her eighth-grade students appreciate American women’s decades-long struggle

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Teacher Partners

Ryan DeMarco

“Sometimes history teachers can lose a sense of the nuances,” says Ryan DeMarco, who teaches Advanced Placement US History and Comparative Government to 11th and 12th graders at North Cross

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Anne Walker

Anne Walker teaches 7th grade US history and 8th grade civics and economics at Benton Middle School in Manassas, Virginia. She loves her work and takes pride in it. But

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Vince Bradburn

Thinking Through the “Why” and “How” of History Vince Bradburn, a 2020 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government, entered the program seeking an intellectual challenge.

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