National History Day® (NHD) is proud to present Teaching Jewish American History in the Classroom, the second volume of our Moving Freedom Forward series. Part of NHD’s Expansive History Initiative, this series brings the latest scholarship to educators to help them teach American history in more expansive ways and increases access to the NHD program.
Teaching Jewish American History presents wide-ranging accounts that aims to capture how the history of Jews in America is a story of continuity and change, rejection and acceptance, departures and arrivals.
Contributors to the volume include historians, museum professionals, and educators, all of whom offer insights into how and why to teach Jewish American history. The volume contains a series of articles and lessons that aim to help educators and their students understand the vastness of Jewish American experiences, while remaining as approachable as possible. The lessons are classroom-ready and provide models for developing further lesson plans. Together, these materials offer educators a range of perspectives, primary sources, and strategies to deepen students’ understanding of Jewish American experiences as an integral part of U.S. history.
This publication was supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
