The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

Schools hold the history and culture of a place through yearbooks, trophy cases, and photo archives. School traditions often connect one generation to the next, providing a sense of community stability and cohesion. We use schools as polling stations and for neighborhood association meetings.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2024

The people of the area really wanted a college,” Sister Ellen Doyle, president from 1986 to 1997, said in a video history. “A Homan is compiling an archive of Chatfield’s history. It really has a lot of history.” Just having a college nearby inspired her to go, she said. The college has now closed.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2024

While at UMN, fellows will have access to office space, the University of Minnesota Library, and archival resources, and will be encouraged to make connections with UMN faculty. Depending on the fellow’s wishes and interests, other events may be scheduled as well.

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 4, 2024

Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History: Call for Fellows kskordal Mon, 03/04/2024 - 13:37 Image The Future of the Past Lab and the Center for Premodern Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities are excited to announce a three-year series of visiting fellowships titled “Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Lincoln County is rural and rugged, forged by industry and ecology and steeped in a complicated history of extraction, exploitation and economic struggle. So, too, was the idea of becoming a non-traditional student in a traditional classroom setting. Grace Company, kept workers in the dark about the dangers of asbestos exposure.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments. Read more from the archives: “ The Anthropology Professor in an Amazon Warehouse.” But most “labor” is not actually about producing, he argues.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

JANUARY 18, 2019

It can also incorporate variables, which encompass the traditional trappings of games such as hit points and score. In fact, the stories are stored in the browsers history, so if you delete the history then the story will also be deleted. ” These two things make creating interactive, non-linear stories and games easy.

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Strange Maps

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Apart from its golden-domed headquarters, the campus also includes tyrbes (holy tombs of previous Debedabas); extensive archives on the Order’s history, including audio recordings of Bektashi musical traditions; and a museum and a library. Credit : Guerric Poncet/Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0)

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Anthropology.net

JULY 16, 2024

The innovative methodologies used in the research have revealed detailed information about past human history without relying solely on traditional artifacts. Professor Jules Blais, says,” "By analyzing pond sediment samples, we were able to construct detailed histories of site occupation. 1 Gallant, L. 1 Gallant, L.

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Anthropology News

JULY 27, 2024

One of his classmates was Carrie Chu, who was from Hong Kong and was studying anthropology and Southeast Asian history. After six months of archival work in London, Don and Carrie headed for Brunei for 16 months of fieldwork. Don and Carrie dated and eventually married in 1965.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

The principal reason their institutions are pushing dual-credit programs, administrators said in a survey , is that, with traditional enrollments plummeting , it gets high school students on the hook and helps recruit them. The document is no longer on the university’s website, but is available from a web archive.).

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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. Had the original Latin version of the Book of Roger survived, Europe’s history of mapmaking and exploration might have turned out differently. Maqbul Ahmad, and chapter 7 in The History of Cartography , Vol.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

His posthumously published The Dawn of Everything , an ambitious reconsideration of human history co-written with archaeologist David Wengrow , became an international bestseller. Read more from the SAPIENS archives: Do Things Have to Be This Way? More trade books of Graebers writing were released posthumously in 2023 and 2024.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

History students. To activate their interest, I spent the first class period showing the Freedom Archives’ COINTELPRO 101 documentary. For the full 90-minute block period students discussed, jotted down notes, and exclaimed in both horror and shock as they learned about a sliver of our country’s hidden history.

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Life and Landscapes

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

” You might find its French history and the relationship to Kentucky of interest! “CHARETTE AND JULES VERNE” It was an interesting question that no one was asking. And so we dive into NAJVS archives and their fabulous Palik Series of early Jules Verne translations edited by Brian Taves [1959-2019].

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

Inspired by Ian Mortimer’s English history Time Traveller’s Guide series and David Mountain’s podcast The Backpacker’s Guide to Prehistory , I also drew on Nanjala Nyabola’s critiques of travel guides’ Othering and colonial outlooks, which shaped class discussions on ethics, identity, and tone in writing.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

While the measure wouldn’t guarantee that every child in the state gets a week at outdoor school, a summer-camp like experience with a focus on science and social emotional skill building, it would make such an offer possible for every interested school district, as was first reported by The Hechinger Report in this story from our archives.

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Political Science Now

JULY 17, 2024

Corwin Award for the best dissertation in the field of public law Recipient: Lucien Ferguson, Boston College Law School Title: “The Spirit of Caste: Recasting the History of Civil Rights” Harold D. Cohen, University of Chicago Hubert H.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

With Carolyns focus on the threatened environment from which Karuk basket materials are gathered, and Amandas reflection on narrating transnational objects united by histories of taking, we consider our responsibilities as architects of new spaces of object curation and interpretation. Walking through the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Born and educated in New York City, he matriculated at Yale University in 1970, graduating in 1974 with a dual degree in art history and anthropology and a senior thesis on the Japanese tea ceremony. While completing his Chicago degree, Ira held positions at the Brooklyn Museum as both a research associate and assistant curator.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

A few years ago, I went out to Amherst College in western Massachusetts, where Catherine Epstein took me down to the school’s archives. Catherine Epstein: We have the papers of some relatively famous alums, and then we have lots of information just on the history of the college. Kirk: Nicola Courtright teaches art history at Amherst.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Initially, Honani put some blame on herself as a mother, chiding herself for failing to stay on top of her son’s teachers and deprioritizing traditional schooling during a hectic time. Out of this activity comes respect for history, science, land and the weather, she said. There was no follow-up.”. Credit: COURTESY OF SAMANTHA HONANI.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 10, 2024

An anthropologist takes a critical eye to a long-running holiday tradition: a U.S. To understand Operation Christmas Drop, it helps to have some history and geography. Read on, from the SAPIENS archives: Requiem for a War Robot. In ignoring this history, she says, They made [a] mockery of us as happy natives.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

Understanding how hard-fought the Pell surplus is requires a look at the program’s recent history. But the financial crisis beginning in 2007 meant that more people — traditional-aged students as well as adults — couldn’t get jobs, so education became the answer to their predicament.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

Jesse Hagopian: The Condemnation of Blackness is a history of the construction of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the United States, and it reveals the influence of this pernicious myth rooted in statistics on our society and our sense of self. He did it at Hampton in 1905.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

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. We were really determined to have a place that took these conversations into the heart of traditional academia, Bulaitis says. and elsewhere.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. I appreciated hearing about the history of how data has been (mis)used to construct a narrative of Black criminality.

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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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