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Seminar Series on SNCC and Grassroots Organizing

Zinn Education Project

The series, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is focused on six themes that are at the heart of SNCC’s history of grassroots organizing: the organizing tradition, voting rights, Black Power, women and gender, freedom teaching, and art and culture in movement building.

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Cuts at the NEH

ASHP CML

The NEH also has been integral throughout the history of the ASHP: with a grant in 1977, historians Herb Gutman and Steve Brier organized a series of seminars about Working Men and Women in American History for labor leaders and trade unionists.

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The Importance of Building Connections

A Principal's Reflections

The morning began with Collen providing an overview of our school''s comprehensive Holocaust education program; highlighting the course curriculum, the study seminar to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the overseas trip to Germany, Czech Republic, and Poland.

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Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

C3 Teachers

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. These advantages suggest why connections with cultural centers should matter to educators, students and the local community.

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Call for Fellowship Applications: Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History

Society for Classical Studies

Often, the product of this influence is a colonialist narrative that presents past cultures as flawed or inconsistent (because they fail to meet modern criteria) and modern (usually Western) cultures as the resolution of these inconsistencies. Fellowships will be distributed equally across the 2025-2026 academic year (i.e.,

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The latest group to get special attention from college admissions offices: men

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The obstacles are not only financial and academic, but also cultural. Moorpark has added “equity lounges,” summer trips to Africa, and seminars for professors on how to best teach men. He’s supposed to be strong and not show weakness,” Sanders says. “If Just 7 percent of U.S.

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Sally McLendon

Anthropology News

1933-2024 Credit: Penny de los Santos Sally McLendon (1933-2024) Sally McLendon was an American scholar of Indigenous languages, cultures, and histories in North America, with a special focus on the Indigenous languages and communities of Northern California. She completed her Ph.D. at Berkeley in 1966.

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