Join Our Webinars: 20th Century US History & More

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We are excited to invite you to join us for a series of three live webinars starting today April 27 at 4 p.m. ET and continuing on April 29th and May 4th. The focus is on 20th century U.S. History and an exploration of how the American experiment plays out in the foreign and domestic policy of modern America. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with scholars Lindsay Chervinsky, Robert McDonald, and Jennifer Keene. Learn more and r egister here.

We have a variety of resources to help you and your students celebrate World Press Freedom Day on May 3 including:

Please join Liz and special guests Kimberly Huffman, Jennifer Jolley, Andrea Martin, and Julie Scheppele live next Tuesday, May 4 at 4 p.m. ET for the next Teacher Time webinar, "Teacher Circles: Building Your Social Studies Teacher Community." If you're unable to join live, you can watch this and all of the past episodes of Teacher Time on our YouTube Channel. Learn more and register HERE.

We all know the Declaration of Independence, but do we know the philosophical and moral underpinnings behind the famous document? In this Scholar Talk video, BRI Senior Teaching Fellow Tony Williams and C. Bradley Thompson, Professor of Political Science at Clemson University discuss Thompson's book, America's Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It.

Are your students preparing for either version of the AP U.S. History exam? If so, you will want to encourage them to join Tom Richey and Sean Redmond live tonight at 6:30 p.m. ET for Session 3 of our free AP U.S. History Prep webinars. See the full schedule and register here, and watch recordings of past webinars on our YouTube channel.

AP Government Prep with Paul Sargent and Liz Evans also continues tonight at 8 p.m. ET. Learn more and register here.

Student Spotlight

Meet Marissa Banks!
Recent Think the Vote debate winner Marissa Banks is currently a junior at Malvern High School, in Malvern, Arkansas. Among her favorite classes are English and U.S. History. Her biggest influences in life are her parents and her former Pre-AP English teacher, Ms. Claudine James. If they were alive today, Marissa would definitely follow Mildred Loving and Martin Luther King Jr. on social media because they "both have really impacted my life." ...Read More.

Join the Debate on Think the Vote!

Encourage your students to join in the latest debate on Think the Vote for a chance to be featured in our Student Spotlight, and to win a $25 gift card and swag for them and for you. This week's question: Do tech companies have the responsibility to regulate speech online? Winning students are also entered for a chance to win a $1000 scholarship at the end of the school year.

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Dear John,

As you are entering the final weeks of this school year? What stands out to you? What are your joys? What are your pains? What are you looking forward to for the summer and next school year? I, for one, just led my first in-person program in over a year and it was amazing. I am so inspired and empowered by the work teachers are doing, and have been doing in COVID. I am also grateful to work at an organization that can provide support resources that can be used in all the different environments teachers are in right now. So, how can we help better?

Citizenship education is hard work. BRI is here to help. We have our new website search feature for you to find resources, AP Prep webinars, new videos, and more coming every week. We would love to hear from you. What resources do you need? What is a problem that we can solve together?

We are so grateful for the work you do. Thank you.

Sincerely yours,

Rachel Davison Humphries
Director, Outreach
Bill of Rights Institute

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