AHA Session 161
Friday, January 5, 2024: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Plaza B (Hilton Union Square, Lobby)
Chair:
Thomas W. Laqueur, University of California, Berkeley
Panel:
Ronald Angelo Johnson, Baylor University
Nancy J. McTygue, University of California, Davis
Alan S. Taylor, University of Virginia
Nancy J. McTygue, University of California, Davis
Alan S. Taylor, University of Virginia
Session Abstract
This roundtable session will explore the tension inherent in the role of the American historian in fostering a critical reexamination of the past in this moment of national reckoning while also fostering a sense of civic engagement, national identity, and belonging. Ronald Angelo Johnson will discuss the importance of African American History to teaching civic education and engagement in the United States; Nancy McTygue will discuss Teaching Civics: Empowering Yolo County’s Youth, a unique model of local collaboration focused on deepening student understanding of and engagement with local government, California’s Seal of Civic Engagement, and media literacy; and Alan Taylor will discuss controversies over interpreting the origins of the United States that inform the varieties of civic education offered in our schools.
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