Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. National Archives, and maybe dig through the 5.3 million book images from the Internet Archive. . Washington University in St.

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

Ripley via the Internet Archive ) Ripley was a man of various talents. A lecturer on sociology at Columbia and a professor of economics at Harvard, he was particularly influential in U.S. Ripley via the Internet Archive ) There were other categorizations, each as equally subjective. ” ( Credit : William Z. railway policy.

Archiving 52

Archiving Sociology Humanities Anthropology 52

Political Science Now

AUGUST 15, 2024

For data collection, we consider the typical ways in which process tracing gathers evidence on the observable implications of causal mechanisms, including archival work, document analysis of secondary sources, various field methods (interviews, political ethnography, ethnography), and surveys.

Sociology 48

Sociology Social Science Archiving Political Science 48

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift. A few years ago, I went out to Amherst College in western Massachusetts, where Catherine Epstein took me down to the school’s archives. Josipa Roksa: Students are not spending adequate time on academics and academic pursuits.

Humanities 90

Humanities Critical Thinking History Cultures 90

Political Science Now

JULY 30, 2024

The Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award , formally the APSA Best Book Award, is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best book on government, politics, or international affairs.

Political Science 52

Political Science Archival Research Sociology Archiving 52

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

Coming out of the end of slavery, Black people made their freedom dreams manifest in attempts to own property, to negotiate their own labor agreements, to build institutions, to take their role in governance, both in state legislative houses as well as in Congress. Muhammad: It’s another part of the archival record. They went nowhere.

Primary Sources 98

Primary Sources History Economics K-12 98

ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

That includes, the editors note, anthropology, archaeology, classics, cultural studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, performing arts, religious studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, psychology, sociology, visual arts, and women's studies. and elsewhere.

Humanities 145

Humanities Archiving Oral History Pedagogy 145