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Teaching history with big ideas -- The evolution of a big idea: why don't we know anything about Africa? -- Defining success with big ideas: a new teacher's growth and challenges -- From the Holocaust to Darfur: teaching about genocide -- How I learned to stop worrying about the test and love teaching students to write well -- Big expectations: big ideas in honors and inclusion classes -- Big ideas and technology: a methodology to engage students -- Reconstructing reconstruction and history -- Big ideas and ambitious teaching: a cross-case analysis -- Implications: a road map for ambitious teaching with big ideas.