American Institute for History Education

Mission

The American Institute for History Education's mission is to provide substantive, engaging historical activities for teachers to use in their classrooms that will dramatically increase the students' comprehension of historical events, issues, and trends. The American Institute’s programs will also produce a marked increase in students’ problem solving and thinking skills, through historical application activities.

Purpose of the Institute

The American Institute for History Education, LLC was founded to provide history teachers with quality lessons, activities, and resources to use in their classrooms. From his years of teaching history and training history teachers, Dr. Kevin T. Brady appreciates the tremendous need for teachers to have access to more advanced resources. Study after study and results from NAEP testing demonstrate that American students are not receiving competent history educational opportunities. Both students and teachers have been subjected to vacuous textbooks that barely skim over the crucial issues in American History.

Students need to be engaged in substantive historical content. Only through reading, solid, exciting historical narratives and working with primary source material will students grasp the essential events of American History and proficiently comprehend the crucial issues of modern society.

The American Institute for History Education believes that students will rise to high expectations if teachers provide them with the means. Voluminous empirical and quantitative research verifies this. Students will comprehend abstract ideas and think critically once they have a competent base of knowledge. Thinking skills will increase commensurate with the amount of data students retain. The American Institute for History Education works to provide teachers with the materials to help students analyze erudite historical material, process the information, synthesis substantive data, and articulate reasoned conclusions.

A generation without competent knowledge of its society’s past is like a luckless person with amnesia.