Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

The collection of articles, written by a diverse group of African and international scholars, urges us to rethink the legacy of this discovery. But many other African fossils—particularly those collected during the colonial period—reside in European museums.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

A Teacher’s Guide to Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month May 2, 2024 • Studies Weekly Diverse perspectives strengthen education, according to Heather Singmaster’s EdWeek article from November 2018. It’s also important for all students to feel represented, Laura Thomas said in her Edutopia article from August 2016.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 4, 2025

Native American Leadership, Identity, and Resistance at Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center in Mashantucket, CT. Anthony Museum and House in Rochester, NY. The West in History and Memory at National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, OK. Anthony & Reform at Susan B.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 31, 2010

Holocaust Memorial Museum and the overseas trip to Germany, Czech Republic, and Poland. The news video aired on the evening of Friday March, 25 2010 and a corresponding article was published as well. Department of Education. Cindy Hsu, a CBS Correspondent, interviewed the students and teachers during this visit.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 9, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ In the early 2000s, we started to look again at supposed Altar Stone fragments in museum collections. But without directly sampling the Altar Stone, how could we be sure that the museum fragments were genuine?

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

Some of our topics include: The Underground Railroad at The Underground Railroad Heritage Center in Niagara Falls, NY West Coast Immigration at the Angel Island Immigration Station on Angel Island, CA Contested Elections: 1800, 1824, 1874, 1960 & 2000 at the JFK Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, MA The World Wars and the American State (..)

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Michigan. Johnson is currently preparing two journal articles for publication: “Racial Representation and Black Struggle in the Brazilian Congress,” and “Promoting Afro-Brazilian Culture and History: An Analysis of the Fundao Cultural Palmares.”

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Together, they applied for a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Sciences, as part of the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. The SLIDE project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Grant Project RE-246368-OLS-20.

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World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 14, 2022

Two projects from Asia include the discovery of a Tang shipwreck, which takes you to an exhibit at the Singapore Museum , and a Story Map follows the early thirteenth-century travels of Yelu Chucai and Wugusun Zhongduan, who travel from north China to Central Asia after the Mongol empire's first conquests under Chinggis Khan.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 31, 2024

That same year, another team, led by Berkeley’s Allan Wilson, reported DNA from a museum specimen of a quagga, a zebra-like creature that went extinct in the late 1800s. Then, other scholars refuted the claims, detailing the studies’ shortcomings in their peer reviews , social media, press comments, and eventually other journal articles.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2021

Events are hosted by a wide range of organizations in each community—from churches to tech companies, rec centers to sewing shops, libraries to schools, makerspaces to barbershops, parks to museums, restaurants to laundromats, and everywhere in between. Articles and media coverage of RLDAA. PHOTO CREDIT: Ben Filio.

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Strange Maps

MARCH 1, 2024

Mosaic from the Bardo National Museum in Tunis. This article Was the “Odyssey” originally set in the Baltic? Credit : Dennis Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED) Still, Vinci is not alone. The identity of Ithaca, so vaguely described by Homer, continues to exercise writers and historians. Strange Maps #1235 Got a strange map?

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

PLATFORM OR PLOY After the release of Hancock’s 2022 Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse , archaeologists contested and condemned his claims through the forums of an open letter , news articles , op-eds , social media , and blog posts. Ham used the spectacle to raise funds for his Creation Museum. Hancock invited a direct debate.

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Sapiens

MARCH 5, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ This means the smallest amounts of more recent contamination from the burial environment, or from museum conservation materials, can make dating finds from these sites extremely challenging.

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Pedagogy to Share

OCTOBER 20, 2022

I recalled the piece I wrote about that period in an article I published called “Writing in my personal and professional learning – a Narrative”. The day trip included the Arkadi Monastery, the Archeological Museum of Eleftherna, the Margarites potters’ village, and lunch at the house of Polios folk museum.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Easily access real-world learning materials like video tutorials, primary and secondary sources for research projects, museum collections, historical sites, and digital books, available online and often for free. Reading materials can include print or digital books, graphic novels, magazines, and online articles.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This short article provides simple ways to help your child stay focused, and here are more tips to help with routines: Help with time management and goal-setting : Find time for a family huddle at least once each week. Make sure communications functions like chat with strangers are turned off.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

On my campus, there is a zoological faculty, and its museum. This museum is filled with larvae in various stages of development, tadpoles and eggs, joining forces to enact different stages of a single life. Anders Burman’s article “ Are Anthropologists Monsters? This may sound like a ridiculous scenario.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2025

Read more Related Articles: The HistoryMakers: Biography: Dr. Matthew Holden, Jr. Through the media and a series of user-friendly products, services and events, The HistoryMakers enlightens, entertains and educates the public, helping to refashion a more inclusive record of American history. UIS professor Matthew Holden, Jr.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. National Archives, and maybe dig through the 5.3 million book images from the Internet Archive. .

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Digital Promise

JUNE 10, 2019

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. High-SES children were increasingly more likely to visit to museums, zoos and aquariums, new cities, amusements parks, and beaches and lakes. Read the original version here. Where’s the best place for summer learning?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Most days, the children’s learning happens outside of the home, when they are playing at the park, visiting museums or even doing math while grocery shopping. This article was produced by The Associated Press and. To make it all work, Almazan quit her job as a preschool teacher. I also miss my favorite teacher.”

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Read the original version here. For many of us, summer and mathematics just don’t seem to mix. Read the original version here.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A widely-published writer, he’s the author, co-author, or editor of four music history books and many essays and articles. Ramsey, Jr. is a music historian, pianist, composer, and Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. Who Hears Here? On Black Music, Pasts and Present (2022) is his latest book.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 27, 2024

Some of our topics include: Security, Self Determination, and Empire: The Grand Alliance, 1941-1945 at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, LA. Controversy, Consensus, and Compromise in the American Founding, at Pima Air & Space Museum in Tuscon, AZ. Bush Presidential Library & Museum in College Station, TX.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2017

Fifty years ago, Robert Bellah pointed this out in an article, “ Civil Religion in America.” In New York, the Statue of Liberty was renovated in 1986, and the Ellis Island Museum opened in 1990. American civil religion has united rich and poor, native and invader, ruler and rebel. The Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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. Strange Maps #125x Got a strange map? Let me know at strangemaps@gmail.com.

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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. the New York State Archives and Museum , and the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site ) is essential to my instructional practice.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2017

Did your parents ever take you to a museum or a play? The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not reflect the view of Lawrence Public Schools. The first is to know yourself. Did you know the alphabet before you went to kindergarten? Did you ever worry about where you would go to sleep?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Lake started the first class by showing students a collection of photographs, live footage and newspaper articles from 9/11. Last school year, the district piloted a new set of lessons created by the Newseum , a museum in Washington, D.C. Most of our students really have very little knowledge or recollection of [9/11].

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Strange Maps

JULY 11, 2023

Earth, in Stockholm, on Earth — more precisely in Cosmonova, the cinema theatre of Sweden’s National Museum of Natural History. km) from the Globe, just outside Stockholm City Museum and is no more than 9.8 Earth is at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, 4.7 in (25 cm) in diameter. km) from the Globe. in, 18 cm).

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

You don’t want to read 30 articles,” the professor says, “you want to read seven.” She found a map of Bermuda, some journal articles and stories published on History.com. She shares how reading books and articles made her fascinated by Helen Keller’s life, so much so that she wrote a poem inspired by one of Keller’s brothers.

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Students of History

JANUARY 3, 2023

For example, I will have students read an online article and complete an interactive notebook graphic organizer based on what they read. For example, you could take your students on a field trip to a local museum or historic site, or have them participate in a role-playing activity to learn about a particular historical event.

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Some helpful tips for utilizing Studies Weekly resources can be found in this article: [link] Utilizing Community Resources: Local museums, science centers, botanical gardens, and nature reserves often offer educational programs and activities for students.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

To the end of his life, Du Bois never stopped his research, and he published dozens more books, essays, and articles on his own in pursuit of freedom. The National Women’s History Museum documents how Truth advocated for voting rights for all and argued that gender or race should not restrict any human rights.

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

” ( Credit : Utrecht University Archive / Museum, CC BY-SA 3.0 ) There’s nothing mysterious per se about gravitational variation, which corresponds to differences in the density of the subsurface (and submarine) layers of rock. This article The Indian Ocean has the world’s largest gravity hole.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The manuscript did not end up in the hands of museums or local officials but rather Catholic monks in the hills of Bohemia. In this article I hope to explore the ways in which questions about structural reforms too often avoid root causes such as addition, mental illness, poverty, et cetera. So, let’s look at Kristen’s.

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