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NCHE Partners with the Library of Congress

NCHE

The National Council for History Education (NCHE) is excited to announce a new partnership with the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program (TPS). As of February 2025, NCHE serves as the director of one of the Librarys newest regional granting entities, the Great Plains Region.

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What Happens When a School Closes Its Library?

ED Surge

One fear expressed was about how the mostly Black and Latino students at 28 schools would fare under a plan created by new Superintendent Mike Miles that would require school libraries to cease, in essence, functioning as libraries. Demonstrators gather in August 2023 in protest of Houston ISD's plan to close libraries in schools.

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What Brings Gen Z to the Library?

ED Surge

But they still like print, and they still like to go to the library, according to a survey of Gen Z and Millennial public library use and media consumption released by the American Library Association last fall. They also did ethnographic research at two Ohio public library branches. They might be coming in for coffee.

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Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies

Studies Weekly

As the Library of Congress explains, In analyzing primary sources, students move from concrete observations and facts to questioning and making inferences about the materials. Some of the greatest tools that we have in our online library are audio and video recordings.

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Prepare for Fall Multi Day seminars!

Teaching American History

Applications open soon for our Fall 2024 Multi Day seminars ! Discussion of primary documents. A supportive and engaged group of educators. Historic locations. Free professional development. What more could you ask for? We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics.

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“Edith and Doris: History, Writing, and Photographs” at the Southwest Harbor Public Library

Society for Classical Studies

For questions or for more information, call the Library at 207-244-7065, visit www.swhplibrary.org , or email programs@swhplibrary.org. Register for the event at: [link] Image Credits Southwest Harbor Public Library logo He summers in a cottage in Deer Isle, Maine.

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OPINION: As the coronavirus drives students apart, one college devises a course to keep them together

The Hechinger Report

The lesson featured two art historians, a microbiologist, a writing specialist, the library director and me, a historian in sports studies. We saw the course as a sort of love letter to the Class of 2024. Our last in-person class took place on March 4, a few hours before the campus emptied for what we thought would be Spring Break.

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