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How does an NCHE Colloquium come together?

NCHE

Since 2017, NCHE has offered professional learning colloquia that focus on “Technology’s Impact in American History (TIAH).” Francis has spent years translating Spanish records and uploading them to a remarkable website entitled La Florida: The Interactive Digital Archive of the Americas.

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In Philadelphia, a symbol of police brutality comes down, and a monument to black student protesters will go up

The Hechinger Report

Helen Gym, a Korean American City Council member, had tried to leverage the aftermath of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 to get the city to take the Rizzo statue down. It sounds weird, a 17-year old girl going to the archives with her friends for fun. But she ran into vocal opposition.

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Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts

The Hechinger Report

The program was also offered in 2016 and 2017. The nonprofit Facing History and Ourselves is offering “The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy,” described on its website as an “archive of lessons, videos, and primary sources to teach about one of the most tumultuous periods in U.S.

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