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OAH Resources
• OAH Magazine
• Distinguished Lecturers
• OAH Meetings
• Teaching Units
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OAH has partnered with numerous school districts and educational service centers across the country over the last eight years to help teachers enhance U.S. history education through Teaching American History grants.
OAH can provide the following resources to help meet your teachers' professional development and history content needs, strengthening your TAH grant program and application. Contact our TAH Grant Liaison for more information.
OAH Magazine of History
Designed especially for teachers and the signal benefit of OAH History
Educator membership, each quarterly issue of
the OAH Magazine of History offers
articles, lesson
plans and other practical teaching ideas, bibliographies, reproducible handouts, and current
historiography on a focused theme. In addition to 4 new issues each year, nearly 70 back issues represent
a wealth of information on which professional development seminars, summer institutes, workshops, and
other focused discussions can be based. 
OAH Distinguished Lecturers
More than 300 historians who have made major contributions to the many fields of U.S. history are available through the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program. OAH Lecturers can give keynotes or take part in grant-funded workshops and summer institutes, discussing specific historical content or history pedagogy in general. Lecture fees begin at $1,000, plus travel expenses. Speakers' curricula vita are available to supplement grant proposals. For more ideas on how OAH Distinguished Lecturers have supported other TAH grant programs, please see these articles in the OAH Newsletter:
OAH Meetings
Teachers are cordially invited to attend OAH annual meetings, held every spring. Discounted history educator registration rates are available, and professional development certificates are provided upon request. Of special interest to teachers:
- Since 2006, OAH annual meetings have included pre-conference workshops devoted to the best practices and model projects of TAH programming.
- Attending an OAH annual meeting is an excellent way to build professional networks, expand historical content knowledge, interact with nationally known historians, peruse new books in the exhibit hall, and learn about using local historic sites to teach history.
- Focus on Teaching sessions explore all aspects of teaching history and engage precollegiate as well as college faculty.
- State of the Field sessions provide introductions to fields of study and overviews of the best historiography and its newest trends.
These sessions may be duplicated or repeated as part of local TAH program, workshop, or institute, and built into grant proposals.
Teaching Units
Based on primary documents for U.S. history at the precollegiate level and written by teams of teachers and historians, these resource guides help bring history to life for students. Each unit contains reproducible images and lesson plans for use in the classroom. The units correlate to the National Standards for History and are the joint effort of OAH and UCLA's National Center for History in the Schools. LEAs can reference these teaching units as touchstones of professional development activities, consult with their authors, or use the units in a more systematic way to bolster the curriculum.
These are just some of the ways in which OAH can assist LEAs in improving history education. The resources and services listed above can also be built into a specific program, such as a summer institute for teachers. OAH can also help to share information about the best models, techniques, products, services, and materials that result from Teaching American History Grant projects. Contact our TAH Grant Liaison for more information.
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