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Do You Want to Write for SAPIENS?

Sapiens

A free online webinar by SAPIENS Editor-in-Chief Chip Colwell to learn about how to write for the magazine and its peer publications. Ask SAPIENS is a series that offers a glimpse into the magazine’s inner workings. ✽ My name is Chip Colwell, a SAPIENS anthropology magazine, part of Wenner-Gren Foundation.

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Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine

Teaching American History

Published in Ebony Magazine, January 1958. The post Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine appeared first on Teaching American History. It was supposed to be the first day of school for her, and for eight other black students, all of whom had been promised admission to the school. Library of Congress. Poston, Ted. “A

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Lesson Ideas for Using Political Cartoons to Teach Civics

Let's Cultivate Greatness

Here are my go-to spots for grabbing high-resolution current and historical political cartoons: Daryl Cagle’s searchable database of current cartoons The Week’s and US News’s collections of recent cartoons Library of Congress’s collection of over 800 cartoons from throughout American history and their dedicated Herbert Block collection that spans much (..)

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How sexism and old-fashioned ideals hurt child care operators

The Hechinger Report

Maikko, 2, in pink, Terrance, 1, in red, and Nylah, behind Terrance, dance as their child care provider, Lorna Parks, foreground, claps during a visit by staffers from Detroit’s African-American History Museum. Michael Elsen-Rooney/The Teacher Project. Sign up for our newsletter. Or view the whole series.

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What Asian American Educator Stories Reveal About Racial Nuances Within ‘People of Color’

ED Surge

[ii] Kim and Hsieh describe the following “polarizing binaries of Asian American representation”: yellow peril perpetual foreigner model minority Erika Lee, Ph.D., Asian Americans were often celebrated “for holding the formula for success” (p.

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John Muir Founds the Sierra Club

Teaching American History

Naturalist John Muir, whose popular magazine articles had done much to bring about the 1890 Congressional act creating Yosemite National Park , was unanimously named president of the new organization. Muir in fact had been pressed into service by Robert Underwood Johnson , associate editor of the influential New York magazine The Century.

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WWI and the 1920s: Interview with Jennifer Keene, Part 2.

Teaching American History

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. appeared first on Teaching American History.