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Oral History of Forgottonia: Building a Public History Project in Rural Western Illinois

NCHE

These are just a few interactions I’ve had since my students and I shared our public history project, “The Oral History of Forgottonia.” As part of the NCHE project, The Rural Experience in America , history club students at Cuba High School created a podcast about a local history topic of their choosing.

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We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

Zinn Education Project

She taps the wellsprings of memory, archives, oral histories, literature, imagination, and personal experience to tell a very Black story of armed resistance, strategic retreat, unbreakable resolve, and joyous rapture. The post We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance appeared first on Zinn Education Project.

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Teach the Struggle for Voting Rights

Zinn Education Project

Many of the laws about education and voting rights are made by local and state officials. ” By Jim Peppler, Alabama Department of Archives and History A unit with three lessons by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca provides essential historical context for today’s struggle against voter suppression and for voting rights.

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

I started learning about the diaspora through books and archives when I attended a historically Black university (HBCU) for graduate school. Amid bans on teaching Black history and calculated attempts at falsifying history, we all need a recalibration in the importance of telling full stories about America’s past and present.

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LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States: Summer 2022 NEH-sponsored Institute

ASHP CML

history, from early America to the 1990s, and engaged sources suited for classroom use, including military and government records, oral history interviews, literature, photography, and organizational archives. The institute introduced the rich body of recent scholarship covering the span of U.S.

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CUNY Digital History Archive / Call for Participation

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The CUNY Digital History Archive is now recruiting volunteer researchers to join our project team. Research and Editorial Board The editorial team reviews new collections and assists with research and writing, identifies relevant archival materials and works with collection curators to contextualize primary sources.

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As Humanities Fight for Support, New Journal Aims to Celebrate Their Role in Public Life

ED Surge

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. Across the Atlantic, Bulaitis had been researching the changing value of higher education and the raising of tuition fees in the U.K.