History News Article: "Public History and Civics Education" (HN 2021, 76 #1)

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History News Article

Title: "Public History and Civics Education" by K. Allison Wickens

Issue: History News 2021 Volume 76, #1

Description: This article demonstrates the important role history can play in civics education and shows how the public history field can help teachers incorporate historical context and thinking skills in civics lessons to prepare students for informed participation in government. Wickens first establishes the historical importance of civics education to the survival of American democracy and the value of history in our present-day civics classrooms and then addresses how historians can provide for teachers and learners, from highlighting how local communities engage in governance to developing interactive games. 

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K. Allison Wickens (she/her)

Vice President, Education

George Washington's Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, VA

Allison Wickens leads the Education and Guest Services division at Mount Vernon and oversees the history and civics learning goals for the institution’s onsite, offsite, and digital outreach programs. She writes and speaks about the education and learning of young people at museums, historic sites, and schools and has written on this subject in articles published in the Journal of Museum Education. She received an M.A. in History and a certificate in Museum Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder and a B.A. in history from Grinnell College. is the Vice President for Education at George Washington’s Mount Vernon. She can be reached at allison.wickens@mountvernon.org.