Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

Christopher Lowman built a writing course for the era of ChatGPT, introducing anthropology majors to Large Language Models (LLMs) and their ability to prompt research topics and improve writing while teaching students to recognize AI’s limitations. Ian Straughn worked with students in an introductory archaeology course using Humata.ai

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Society for Classical Studies

APRIL 4, 2024

The HRFP, the only residential fellowship program west of the Mississippi in Hellenic studies broadly conceived, enables visiting scholars to conduct research using the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection in Sacramento, CA. There is a broad representation of languages in the collection, with a rich assortment of primary source materials.

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ACRE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In the classroom, educators can explore a variety of Constitutional resources with learners by reading primary sources, reviewing changes to the Constitution throughout American History, and analyzing historical arguments relating to the founding of the United States and the Constitution today. Since its ratification, the U.S.

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4QM Teaching

APRIL 30, 2023

That rubric defined “rigor” as student engagement with primary source texts and artifacts. Question Two) — is most appropriately addressed by interpreting primary sources. Reading primary sources sounds like the authentic activity of professional historians. I noticed something strange, however.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2021

Buddington’s team wrote the curriculum and helped with the archive research that accompanies the Kinfolk app. The idea, he said, is that students will be inspired “to go on a scavenger hunt through the primary source archives to learn more.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

Masterman High School, the rising junior was doing research for a proposal to convince the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission to erect a marker to commemorate the walkouts, when thousands of local students marched to protest racial injustice more than 50 years earlier. It was the summer of 2019, and Nia was 15. But it really was.”

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Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

First up, the LOC (aka Library of Congress): The Library of Congress has an amazing treasure trove of primary source materials. Clicking the Growth topic will take you to subjects with connections to primary sources. CitationTip: at the bottom of each Pdf document is the necessary citation for the source.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

This summer, Creel joined a dozen other teachers from across the state at a weeklong training institute at the state’s Department of Archives and History. RELATED: The districts that use outdated textbooks to teach about the Civil Rights Movement. She wanted to center the unit not only on the famous names — Martin Luther King, Jr.,

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

To activate their interest, I spent the first class period showing the Freedom Archives’ COINTELPRO 101 documentary. history class, when teaching about the relationship between production and climate change, or about the history of climate research in the U.S. The class gets excited, vocal, and competitive.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

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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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

Hagopian: Incredible research you did on that. For example, what number do you put on the thousands of Indigenous remains that are still on the property of Harvard University today, or the stolen bodies that were used for scientific research? Muhammad: It’s another part of the archival record. I want to be mindful of teachers.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Formally, he was the director of a place that we hold very dear, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Hagopian: Incredible research you did on that. Muhammad: It’s another part of the archival record. Thank you so much for being with us. Khalil Gibran Muhammad: Thanks, Jesse, it’s a pleasure. Thanks, T.

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