Nate Sleeter, research assistant professor of history and associate director of George Mason University's Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), received new grant funding to create two teaching guides for teachers on the history of the American Revolution. The $25,000 grant is funded through the American Historical Association as part of the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Program.
The teaching guides will support history educators in teaching a more comprehensive and complete history of American independence, including the complex relationships to independence experienced by various groups during the revolutionary era – particularly the Black Americans and Indigenous Americans who fought for their own independence on both sides of the conflict. Sleeter will incorporate primary sources such as diaries, Revolutionary War paystubs, prints, newspaper articles, official documents, and other artifacts from the Library of Congress in a manner that emphasizes best practices of active learning and historical thinking. The new set of guides will be published on teachinghistory.org in May 2026.
August 14, 2025