The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

Schools hold the history and culture of a place through yearbooks, trophy cases, and photo archives. Closed in 2012, the building sat vacant until Community Forge purchased Johnston from the school district for $225,000 and reopened it in 2018. We use schools as polling stations and for neighborhood association meetings.

Economics 144

Economics Archiving Tradition Government 144

Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments. David Graeber speaks at a panel in 2012. Read more from the archives: “ The Anthropology Professor in an Amazon Warehouse.” But it hired one to be perceived as a “real company.”

Anthropology 131

Anthropology Economics Sociology Archiving 131

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

When he returned from college in 1993 to work as a history teacher in the district, he wondered where all the white students had gone. Black History was added, busing was provided. But scars from a relentless history of white and black educational inequity were not readily healed. Greenville wears its history close.

Middle School 111

Middle School Private School Elementary School Public School 111

Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 11, 2024

For scholars of gender archaeology and history, the body has become a privileged site for the investigation of women’s lives in antiquity (Liston 2012; Shepherd 2012). 2012) ‘Reading the Bones: Interpreting the Skeletal Evidence for Women’s Lives in Ancient Greece’, in S.L. 2012) ‘Women in Magna Graecia’, in S.L.

Archaeology 52

Archaeology Archiving Cultures History 52

ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

History,” Journal of American History 95:2 (September 2008); Michael L. Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2021); Lucretia Giese, “Winslow Homer’s Prisoners from the Front: an American History Painting?” Reading: Susan Schulten, Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-century America (Chicago, 2012): pp.

Museum 52

Museum American History Library History 52

Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In 2012, the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children led a training in gastronomy and food service ahead of opening the first deaf restaurant in Gaza. Read more from the SAPIENS archives: “ Living as Stateless Palestinians in Jordan.”

Archiving 145

Archiving Anthropology Psychology Government 145

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

No doubt, there is a long history of violence in the region — including the Oct. One cannot understand this tragedy without acknowledging its history. Students need to examine how the current crisis is shaped in large part by settler colonial history, and the role played by world powers. Independence or Catastrophe?

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Steel Valley School District Superintendent Edward Wehrer, whose daughters attend Park Elementary, said he’s aware of the disparity between the elementary schools — a situation he inherited when he was named superintendent in June 2012. “We Daily Messenger newspaper archives at the Carnegie Library of Homestead explain that history.

Social Justice 62

Social Justice Elementary School Archiving Library 62

The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

Understanding how hard-fought the Pell surplus is requires a look at the program’s recent history. Finally, the 2012 budget trimmed back Pell eligibility even further, to save another $11 billion over 10 years. The 2012 budget cuts alone were estimated to make at least 100,000 Pell recipients ineligible.

Archiving 68

Archiving Advocacy Government Tradition 68

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. I appreciated hearing about the history of how data has been (mis)used to construct a narrative of Black criminality.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources History K-12 Economics 52

Sapiens

MARCH 18, 2025

MIGRANTS, VIRUSES, AND INSECTS The metaphor of the Asian immigrant as invader has a long, violent history in the U.S. Read more from the SAPIENS archive: Anti-Asian Racisms Deep Roots in the United States. Mexico border. In early 2020, U.S. could unwittingly be overtaken by a foreign invader.

Archiving 66

Archiving History Economics Humanities 66

ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook. and elsewhere.

Humanities 145

Humanities Oral History Archiving Pedagogy 145