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We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. Additionally, we could make our own sets related to local class topics and presentations using a friendly curation tool like Educlipper. .

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

At the grocery store: “ Your students did such a great job documenting our local history! The gas station: “ Hey Joe, I heard you had a student doing some research about local mines in our community. If your community is like mine, it’s likely much of your town’s rural history hasn’t been preserved in a meaningful way.

Oral History 100

Oral History Public History History Museum 100

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.

Cultures 52

Cultures Heritage Civic Engagement Civics 52

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Select a site in your town or city that symbolizes or reflects history that teachers would be required to lie about or omit if these bills become law, which is already the case in some states. It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. Students as Historians.

Teaching 52

Teaching Historic Sites Archiving Museum 52

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. Students can be invited to share the local history of the respective site you select. Sojourn to the Past students shared the Jim Crow history of swimming pools in Youngstown. Students as Historians.

Teaching 52

Teaching Historic Sites Museum Archiving 52

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? How do you write about Blackness in a place that tries to deny its existence? How do you write about Blackness while trying to resist the insidious pull of cultural and racial assimilation?

Heritage 52

Heritage Cultures History Archiving 52

Life and Landscapes

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

And so we dive into NAJVS archives and their fabulous Palik Series of early Jules Verne translations edited by Brian Taves [1959-2019]. And besides, his publisher, Pierre-Jules Hetzel [1814-1886] , was a liberal Republican and an atheist! But there was more to Jules Verne than Hetzel would publish. He was 32 years old.

History 98

History Archiving Local History Cultures 98