Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

These include three pieces of Kansas Legislation, a Civil War mural, a Civil War Veterans Kansas preservation project, many National History Day projects, and four award-winning Lowell Milken for Unsung Heroes projects. State Archives!! : Let me say that again, State Archives!! Access to state archives is extremely useful.

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Primary Sources Archiving Library American History 67

C3 Teachers

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

This workshop seeks to equip teachers with the tools, skills, and confidence necessary to engage students in community history through inquiry. This National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks in American History and Culture Workshop will bring 72 teachers from all over the country to Spartanburg, South Carolina in July 2022.

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Oral History Civic Engagement Archiving Civics 52

ACRE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In the classroom, educators can explore a variety of Constitutional resources with learners by reading primary sources, reviewing changes to the Constitution throughout American History, and analyzing historical arguments relating to the founding of the United States and the Constitution today.

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Primary Sources Civics Archiving Government 52

4QM Teaching

APRIL 30, 2023

And it’s true: if you’d like to earn a PhD in history and eventually land one of the handful of academic jobs available each year in that field, you’d be well advised to spend some serious time in an archive, or several of them. Now confess: you didn’t learn about the American Revolution that way. Plan it out.

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Primary Sources Artifacts Archiving Social Studies 40

ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

History,” Journal of American History 95:2 (September 2008); Michael L. Reading: Eleanor Harvey, “Introduction,” The Civil War in American Art , (Washington, D. Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2021); Lucretia Giese, “Winslow Homer’s Prisoners from the Front: an American History Painting?”

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Museum American History Library History 52

Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Czarnecki, a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, wrote the paper for a “Great Texts” course taught by Professor Stephen Tootle on John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress.

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Social Studies Research Archiving American History 98

Society for Classical Studies

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Franklin African American History Research Award Thanks to a generous gift from Dr. V.P. Franklin, Penn State alumnus (‘69) and esteemed scholar of African American history, we are offering a new award this year This award is focused on supporting research in our growing Black History and Visual Culture collections.

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Library Research Archiving Archival Research 52

Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Keene at MAHG 2021 Teaching American History has recently published World War I and the 1920s: Core Documents , a collection curated by Professor Jennifer D. Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. For Europeans, World War I was devastating.

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Archiving American History Library History 91

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

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. history and its legacy today.” The materials can be downloaded free.

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Teaching Primary Sources K-12 History 107

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

A few years ago, I went out to Amherst College in western Massachusetts, where Catherine Epstein took me down to the school’s archives. Catherine Epstein: We have the papers of some relatively famous alums, and then we have lots of information just on the history of the college. Kirk: Intellectual historian? What does that mean?

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Humanities Critical Thinking History Cultures 89

Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

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). The post 60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

Ron DeSantis, in his innovative efforts to destroy the ability of Florida educators to teach an honest and accurate American history, started to experiment around the ability to control not just speech and learning, coming on the heels of pushing back against gains made against voter suppression in that state.

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Primary Sources History Economics K-12 98

ASHP CML

MARCH 3, 2025

The film also highlights the federal governments reliance on African American jazz musicians as tools of cultural diplomacy in Africa during the same period. These stories are weaved together through the use of archival footage and nearly constant jazz music. Theres a constant tension to this story.

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Primary Sources Archiving American History Government 40

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

So Ron DeSantis, in his innovative efforts to destroy the ability of Florida educators to teach an honest and accurate American history, started to experiment around the ability to control not just speech and learning, coming on the hills of pushing back against gains made against voter suppression in that state.

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Primary Sources History K-12 Economics 52