Archiving History Education Museum 
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We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. We’d examine historical images of Native American life from the Museum of Photographic Arts, other historical photos from the U.K.
NCHE
APRIL 3, 2023
What’s the name of that young lady who did a history project about Dickson Mounds? I remember when I was a little girl, you could still go to the museum and see the Native American remains before the governor ordered the museum to cover them up.” Sue is the executive director of the Western Illinois Museum in Macomb, IL.
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Zinn Education Project
JANUARY 15, 2024
For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. For Facebook, check out this example from D.C.
Zinn Education Project
JANUARY 2, 2025
For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills. The educator-led events received national media attention, providing a valuable counter narrative to the oversized coverage of the well-funded anti-CRT movement. Attend meetings, vote, run for office.
Zinn Education Project
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
To activate their interest, I spent the first class period showing the Freedom Archives’ COINTELPRO 101 documentary. The plan was to make it a museum that focuses on the history of Black Americans’ struggles both during and after enslavement. The brutal facts of Angola as a plantation and as a prison were presented.
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