Disclaimer

The TAH program typically conducts an annual competition. However, funding for the TAH grant program was decreased in the FY 2011 budget. As a result, no new grants were awarded in FY 2011.

TAH PROJECT WEBSITES

Current funded TAH projects are providing professional development activities to support and provide resources for history teachers across the country. TAH project websites are excellent resources that allow teachers and TAH project directors an opportunity to take a closer look at what other TAH projects are doing. Click the link below to read more about these projects.

*Note: Only projects that submitted a website are listed. Not all TAH projects have websites and not all TAH project websites were submitted.*

TAH Projects MS Excel (52KB)

TAH SPONSORED RESOURCES

National History Educational Clearinghouse

The National History Education Clearinghouse (NHEC) is designed to help K–12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in their classrooms. With funding from the U.S. Department of Education, the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University has created the website Teachinghistory.org that provides access to history content, teaching strategies, resources, and research. The NHEC builds on and disseminates the valuable lessons learned by more than 1,000 TAH projects designed to raise student achievement by improving teachers’ knowledge and understanding of traditional U.S. history. The clearinghouse also provides a variety of print materials and hosts an annual conference for history teachers.

Contact: Jennifer Rosenfeld

Click Here for a Free Historical Thinking Poster

OTHER HELPFUL TOOLS

Program Overview: MS Word (50KB)

Program Resources: MS Word (40KB)

The U.S. Department of Education announces the launch of data.ed.gov, which provides detailed information on received TAH applications and awarded grants.

All TAH Applications are submitted electronically through the Grants.gov system. Learn more about the system at http://www.grants.gov/

History Organizations

Help keep American history alive. Here you will find nonprofit organizations, not-for-profit organizations, and membership organizations that provide history related resources. You may join, subscribe, volunteer, or give donations to support these organizations.

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

American Historical Association

Bill of Rights Institute

Center for Civic Education

National Association of Scholars

National Council for History Education

National Council for the Social Studies

National Endowment for the Humanities

National History Day

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Preserve America Initiative

National Trust for Historic Preservation

Organization of American Historians

Society for History in the Federal Government

The Close Up Foundation

The Concord Review

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

White House Historical Association
Contact: Courtney Speaker

TEACHING HISTORY

Here you will find professional development courses, fellowships, lesson plans, and exciting classroom ideas to aid our American History teachers in becoming more innovatively and academically advanced.

Bio Classroom

EDSITEment

Facing History and Ourselves

George Washington Lessons in Leadership

iCivics

James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation

Mount Vernon: Teachers and Students

National Archives
Contact:David Rosenbaum

National Center for History in the Schools

National Humanities Center: America in Class

National Park Service

Primary Source

Teachers First

TeachingAmericanHistory.org

The American Institue for History Education

The Watson Institute at Brown University

HISTORY THROUGH MEDIA

Take a closer look at history through media and technology-based resources such as digital classrooms, online exhibits, online libraries, videos, documentaries, and podcasts.

Center for History and New Media

Center for Media & Learning

Library of Congress National Digital Library Program
Contact: Cheryl Lederle

National Archives Digital Classroom

National Parks Service

Newseum

The American Novel

The History Channel

HISTORY HANDS-ON

Visit these historical attractions to relive the past and experience history firsthand.

America I AM: The African American Imprint

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Ford's Theatre
Contact: Sarah Jencks

George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate
Contact: Nancy Hayward
nhayward@mountvernon.org

James Madison's Montpelier

National Building Museum
Contact: Laura Schiavo

National Constitution Center

National Park Service
Contact: Beth Boland

• Frederick Douglass

• President's Lincoln Boyhood Home

• Gettysburg

Newseum
Contact: Kristi Kenneth

President Lincoln's Cottage
Contact: Callie Hawkins

Smithsonian Institution

• American Art Museum
  Contact: Suzannah Niepold

• Center for Education and Museum Studies
  Contact: Stephanie Norby

• American History Museum
  Contact: Heather Paisley-Jonesh

• American Indian Museum
  www.americanindian.si.edu

• National Portrait Gallery
  Contact: Briana Zavadil White

Tenement Museum

Thomas Jefferson's Monticello

Tudor Place
Contact: info@tudorplace.org

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Contact: Christina Chavarria

White House Historical Association
Contact: Courtney Speaker

BLOG ABOUT HISTORY

Passionate about history? Join these blogs and share your thoughts about American history.

An American Social History Project Blog

National Association of Scholars Blog

National History Education Clearinghouse Blog

National Museum of American History Blog

George Washington Wired

Northwest History Blog

Soldiers Studies Blog

Teaching American History article written by Margarita L. Melendéz, published by the Society for History in the Federal Government (SHFG) newsletter, The Federalist MS Word (129KB) | PDF) (108KB

ARCHIVES

Constitution Day-Notice of Implementation

FY 2011 TAH Call for Peer Reviewers. Here you will find instructions for completing the TAH Reviewer Checklist and submitting your resume. MS Word (36 KB)

FY 2011 TAH Application Package: MS Word (431KB)

Pre-Application MS PowerPoint Presentation: MS Power Point (4.68MB) | MS Word (109KB) | Program Workshop Recorded Version