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Why Government Teacher Amy Messick Ran For School Board

Teaching American History

Teaching government at Hilliard Darby High School in Ohio (a suburb of Columbus), Amy Messick helps students understand how our constitutional system works. By August 2024 she would complete her degree in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, giving her time for such an endeavor.

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Spain’s Move to Decolonize Its Museums Must Continue

Sapiens

In early 2024, Spain’s culture minister announced that the nation would overhaul its state museum collections, igniting a wave of anticipation—and controversy. Spain has a deep and far-reaching colonial history, particularly in Latin America.

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When the Plow Turned the Tables: How Inequality Took Root in Human History

Anthropology.net

It was also political—and deeply cultural. The line labeled G = 0.695 indicates the mean of 182 comparableestimates of wealth inequality in state-governed societies in which slavery did not play a major role inproduction for the period from 300 BCE to 2000 CE. Dates on the horizontal axis are years before the Common Era (BCE).

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How Heavy Metal Fuels Indigenous Revival in Patagonia

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An anthropologist plunges into the world of Patagonian heavy metal music in Argentina to explore how the genre relates to language and cultural revitalization. Partway through our conversation on Indigenous history, music, and language, Calfunao lit up when he discovered that we were both metalheads. or European thrash metal record.

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Tackling the Impossibility—and Necessity—of Counting the World’s Languages

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The speakers of many of these languages live deep within roadless rainforests in villages that are very difficult for government representatives and other researchers to access. My task set me on a path to understanding the history and craft of counting languages. For example, the Central African Republic hosts about 70 languages.

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When Wartime Plunder Comes to Campus

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As an archaeologist who teaches at Emory and conducts research in Iraq, I have grappled over these questions and decided yes: Learning with and from these objects can help amend their problematic acquisitionso long as that recent history pervades the lesson. In 2003, the U.S. The invasion unleashed a new wave of destruction.

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Tracing Roti’s Pasts, Presents, and Futures

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The Roti Collective, a community-based research project, explores the layered histories that brought a flatbread from the Indian subcontinent around the world. In Calcutta on Your Plate , her book on Bengali cuisine and gastronomic history, she points out the absence of roti in Bengali meals until the mid-20th century. where I teach.

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