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Oral History of Forgottonia: Building a Public History Project in Rural Western Illinois

NCHE

The gas station: “ Hey Joe, I heard you had a student doing some research about local mines in our community. These are just a few interactions I’ve had since my students and I shared our public history project, “The Oral History of Forgottonia.” He really needs to record an interview with my mom and dad.

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Promotion of Learning Beyond School

A Principal's Reflections

Thus our New Milford Oral History Project began. During the process, the girls researched the town history and learned about the American Memories Oral History Project run by the Smithsonian. These were then donated to the New Milford Historical Society for inclusion in their archives.

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

I started learning about the diaspora through books and archives when I attended a historically Black university (HBCU) for graduate school. Amid bans on teaching Black history and calculated attempts at falsifying history, we all need a recalibration in the importance of telling full stories about America’s past and present.

History 104
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LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States: Summer 2022 NEH-sponsored Institute

ASHP CML

history, from early America to the 1990s, and engaged sources suited for classroom use, including military and government records, oral history interviews, literature, photography, and organizational archives. The institute introduced the rich body of recent scholarship covering the span of U.S.

History 40
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From Fleeing to Fighting Back: New Research Explores How People Decide During Violence

Political Science Now

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. Milliff’s research focus is on Indian Sikhs’ actions during the anti-Sikh pogrom in North India during the 1980s. These testimonies included experiences from 134 women and 369 men.

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CUNY Digital History Archive / Call for Participation

ASHP CML

The CUNY Digital History Archive is now recruiting volunteer researchers to join our project team. Research and Editorial Board The editorial team reviews new collections and assists with research and writing, identifies relevant archival materials and works with collection curators to contextualize primary sources.

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As Humanities Fight for Support, New Journal Aims to Celebrate Their Role in Public Life

ED Surge

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. How do you take really amazing academic research and turn it into social information, public knowledge?" Almost all of the U.S.