Sapiens

JANUARY 18, 2024

Local surveyors, construction workers, architects, and engineers documented the destruction as it happened on hand-colored maps, which are now held at the London Metropolitan Archives. A 1942 memo written by the Ministry of Home Security (now held in the London Metropolitan Archives ) notes: “Sites for tips should be studied and selected.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Conversation with Sonja Czarnecki Sonja Czarnecki, 2022 MAHG Graduate “In order to understand history, you have to do history,” Sonja Czarnecki insists. Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. I felt like I’d won my own History Day contest!”

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NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Since 2017, NCHE has offered professional learning colloquia that focus on “Technology’s Impact in American History (TIAH).” Francis has spent years translating Spanish records and uploading them to a remarkable website entitled La Florida: The Interactive Digital Archive of the Americas.

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Sapiens

MAY 28, 2024

SAPIENS’ 2024 poet-in-residence imagines a wordless conversation with a troubled figure from the past and considers legacies of marginalization during the figure’s life and in archives. as if i have not seen her only in empty documents, in archives drenched in blood. The Visit – Listen the bedroom is a chamber of whispers.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 22, 2024

The exact number of speakers is challenging to determine due to the presence of heritage speakers in the diaspora and the ongoing shift to the Turkish language. Raising the status of minority and heritage languages is crucial to social cohesion, not just in this region, but all over the world.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life. Image via Step Out Buffalo.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

How do you study Blackness in a place that denies its local history of anti-Indigenous and anti-Black structural violence? One of the challenges we face as African Norwegians is that our history in the country we have come to call home often is not well known, both within and outside our communities. As we’ve always done.

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Sapiens

APRIL 2, 2025

A Tanzanian historian and poet conjures alternative engagements with Black African women who were marginalized by violent colonial histories and imprisoned in the archives. For, I work extensively on Tanzanian heritage and human remains entrapped in Germany. The time for that has passed.

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Sapiens

JUNE 17, 2024

Archives often render marginalized people’s histories invisible. In response to such erasure, a poet writes a letter to explore the experience of historically enslaved African and Creole women in Tanzania and Mauritius—and the ways in which they may have navigated their lives.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Read more from the archives: “ Stop Projecting Nationalism Onto Stonehenge.” Thomas recognize that most of the igneous bluestones came from the Mynydd Preseli in Pembrokeshire in southwest Wales. Our ongoing work has refined the sources of these igneous bluestones to individual crags on the northern slopes of the Preseli hills.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 24, 2023

Credit : Universal History Archive / Getty Images) And that’s not all that’s wrong with this map. Credit : Fine Art Images / Heritage Images / Getty Images) One of the more intriguing mentions in the Book of Roger is of Irlandah-al-Kabirah (“Great Ireland”), one day’s sailing from Iceland. Got a strange map?

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 10, 2024

To understand Operation Christmas Drop, it helps to have some history and geography. The region had, and still has, a rich cultural heritage: For instance, today eight Native languages are spoken in FSM alone. Read on, from the SAPIENS archives: Requiem for a War Robot. Operation Christmas Drop embodies what many in the U.S.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

He described Afghanistan as “a country that has never once in its entire history been a united country and is made up—and I don’t mean this in a derogatory [way]—made up of different tribes who have never, ever, ever gotten along with one another.” Read more from the SAPIENS archives: “ Without Norms, Societies Fall Apart.”

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