Sleeter receives funding for revolutionary war teaching guides
2025-08-05
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Sleeter Receives Funding For Revolutionary War Teaching Guides
Nathan Sleeter, Research Assistant Professor, History and Art History, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS), received funding for: “Revolutionary War Teaching Guides.”
Sleeter will develop the teaching guides which use Library of Congress primary sources to support educators on the topic of Black and Indigenous Americans during the Revolutionary War. Sleeter will also engage in outreach to promote the guides with educators.
He will use sources such as diaries, Revolutionary War pay stubs, prints, newspaper articles, official documents, and other artifacts from the Library of Congress. Throughout his work, he will follow and emphasize best practices of active learning and historical thinking.
He will revise the guides based on feedback from historians and teacher education professors.
When complete, he will publish the guides on the website teachinghistory.org.
Sleeter received $25,000 from the American Historical Association on a subaward from the Library of Congress for this project. Funding began in June 2025 and will end in late May 2026.
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