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Online Archive for WWII

World History Teachers Blog

Here is a cool new online archive of 20th-century resources surrounding Winston Churchill. The archive includes primary sources such as images, cartoons, and documents. One of the most interesting parts of the archives is the investigations of significant issues designed for high school students.

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WHN Annual Conference 2025, Call for Papers

Women's History Network

First Call for Papers Womens History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Personal Collections.

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Spain’s Move to Decolonize Its Museums Must Continue

Sapiens

Spain has a deep and far-reaching colonial history, particularly in Latin America. The claim that Spain’s imperialism isn’t true colonization reflects a reluctance to confront the darker aspects of the country’s history, which involved widespread exploitation, violence, and cultural erasure across continents.

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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

After Jessica Ellison invited me to participate in a conversation about how academic historians might be of use to K-12 teachers, I did a little research: I asked teachers at our state social studies council what they most needed for their work. We take Ford up on his pronouncement: Bunk presents new interpretations of US history every day.

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Bits and Bytes Don’t Leave Bones

Anthropology News

When MySpace lost 50 million songs during a server migration , it wasnt just a glitchit was a reshaping of independent music history, determined by infrastructure choices rather than cultural value. The ability to preserve history is a form of power, and that power is rarely in the hands of the public. But migration is never neutral.

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When Wartime Plunder Comes to Campus

Sapiens

As an archaeologist who teaches at Emory and conducts research in Iraq, I have grappled over these questions and decided yes: Learning with and from these objects can help amend their problematic acquisitionso long as that recent history pervades the lesson. We should hire more provenance researchers. Students in the U.S.

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Critical Literacy Across the Curriculum

A Principal's Reflections

Optimally, we inspire our students to pursue a career in which they will be posing relevant questions, and using research and inquiry to answer those questions to contribute to humanity’s general body of knowledge or, through technology and engineering, solve problems. Literacy skills are the foundation upon which these outcomes are built.

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