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60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer

Teaching American History

The interest of the country is awakened and … the government responds.” Courtesy of Civil Rights Movement Archive, [link] The best known of these “freedom facets” is also the most immediately politically consequential one: the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). SNCC & Grassroots Organizing: Interpretive Booklet.

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Both Humans and Technology Are Noisy: How Do We Move Forward?

Digital Promise

Like the Ark of the Covenant at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, this report was lost in the vast government archives, but I saved a copy and it has influenced the way I currently see efficacy research and behavioral science research writ large. Retrieved July 06, 2017, from [link]. Shilling, R. Stokes, D.

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Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China

Anthropology News

Archived webpage (ppdai.com) on Aug. Archived webpage (ppdai.com) on March 28, 2015, highlighting the high annual rate, professional services, and safety for investors if using their investment app. The P2P industry thrived in 2014, championing financial inclusion ( puhui jinrong ) endorsed by the state.

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Three Political Science Professors Named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Political Science Now

In addition, he is the author of Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction (Princeton University Press, 2017). Outside of Harvard, Imai served as the President of the Society for Political Methodology from 2017 to 2019. He is also an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science where his office is located.

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Teaching Syndemics

Teaching Anthropology

As syndemics can be traced back in time through bioarcheology and archival research, described in contemporary disease crises through ethnography and epidemiology, and projected into the further as a result of the ongoing cascade of emergent infectious diseases, teaching syndemics allows a wide historic perspective on human health.

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Voting for reparations, one institution at a time

The Hechinger Report

In April 2017, the university publicly acknowledged and apologized for its role in perpetuating slavery and renamed the two buildings. Originally, the federal government had promised to distribute 40 acres and a mule to black families after the Civil War. The archive is deep and rich and we need to use it.

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Unwrapping Operation Christmas Drop

Sapiens

In 2017, CHamoru activists and other community members called for decolonization and demilitarization at a demonstration for peace in Hagta, Guam. Read on, from the SAPIENS archives: Requiem for a War Robot. In the face of these political and environmental realities, some CHamoro people demand an end to U.S. taxpayers feel good.

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