Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2024

In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. In a museum basement, we huddled over a black-and-white photograph showing pieces of a lower jawbone and its loose teeth. Not all fossil discoveries happen in the field. 998-27-40/14628.1.30

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Archival Research Museum Archiving Artifacts 136

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 9, 2010

I was excited to learn last week about an activity that was being planned for a field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. New Milford High School teachers April Millian (math) and Lisette Morel (art) approached me about creating a scavenger hunt podcast activity for the students to complete while visiting the museum.

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Museum High School 150

Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

Discussion of primary documents. During the seminar, the teachers discuss primary documents on the seminar topic with the guidance of a scholar, who acts as the seminar leader. A supportive and engaged group of educators. Historic locations. Free professional development. What more could you ask for?

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Historic Sites Museum American History Heritage 128

NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

At the grocery store: “ Your students did such a great job documenting our local history! I remember when I was a little girl, you could still go to the museum and see the Native American remains before the governor ordered the museum to cover them up.” Sue is the executive director of the Western Illinois Museum in Macomb, IL.

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Oral History Public History History Museum 100

Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

Image credit: Hunan Museum Collection Database.) While the domestication of Felis catus is a well-documented phenomenon in the Near East and Europe, China’s feline history followed a different trajectory—one where a native wild cat briefly occupied human spaces before being replaced by an imported species.

Archaeology 59

Archaeology Humanities Museum Geography 59

Anthropology News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

On an early summer morning, I drove down 100 miles from my home in Altadena, California, to the Oceanside Museum of Art in San Diego County for a public discussion of the exhibition I curated entitled Alexa Vasquez: Undocumented Times/Queer Yearnings. For both of us, this was our first show in a museum. Credit: Oceanside Museum of Art.

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Museum Anthropology Humanities Economics 97

Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The presentation of the findings of archaeology to the public cannot avoid difficult political issues, and the museum curator and the popularizer today have responsibilities which some can be seen to have failed. These include objects significant to the archaeology, architecture, science or technology of a specified culture.

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Archaeology Cultures Anthropology Heritage 130

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Originally designed as an academic conference to share research, the event brought together Florida K-12 and college teachers and students, national journalists and professionals from libraries and museums whose work focuses on history and civics.

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Civics K-12 Museum American History 145

Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Boas criticized the use of EVOLUTIONARY STAGES as the basis for organizing museum displays, arguing that exhibits should display artifacts in the context of specific cultures. Most societies are not relativist: they view their own ways as good, other people's as bad, inferior, or immoral a form of ETHNOCENTRISM.

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Cultures Anthropology Artifacts Museum 100

Teaching American History

DECEMBER 10, 2024

To celebrate Bill of Rights Day, we offer below a condensed version of the introduction to the Bill of Rights core document volume, available, as are all the document volumes, in the TAH bookstore. References to documents in parentheses are the documents in the Bill of Rights volume. Shermans view prevailed.

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Government Museum Tradition American History 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The Redpath Museum on the campus of McGill University in Montreal. The research is among the latest to document the woes of what has grown into an army of 792,000 U.S. It breaks my heart.” Part-time faculty at McGill earn more, on average, and have more benefits than their counterparts south of the border in the United States.

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Museum Anthropology Teaching Research 145

Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Courtesy of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. He also edited TAH’s core document collection, Congress (2020). When the doors are thrown open, members feel pressured to perform for the audience, seeking to embarrass the witnesses and other members of the committee.

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American History Library Museum Government 119

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. We’d examine historical images of Native American life from the Museum of Photographic Arts, other historical photos from the U.K.

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Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

Teaching American History

AUGUST 27, 2024

Discussion of primary documents. 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. Historic locations.

Historic Sites 52

Historic Sites Museum American History Professional Development 52

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Learning can happen anywhere — in a classroom, in a park, on a field trip or at a museum. Equally problematic is the lack of access to resources and materials needed for lessons, such as Promethean Boards, dry erase boards and document cameras. But, the reality is that space matters.

Teaching 98

Teaching Museum Lesson Plan Education 98

Rosie the History Teacher

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

As a history teacher with a background in museum work, my biggest goal is for my students to learn to curate their knowledge to be able to share it with others. Smithsonian Learning Lab Last year, I attended the Museum Computer Network Conference to present on my work as the Education Advisor with Girl Museum.

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History Primary Sources Museum Artifacts 52

Anthropology.net

MAY 11, 2024

Archaeologists from the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence , in collaboration with partners from Serbian museums, have unearthed a remarkable discovery: a previously unknown Late Neolithic settlement nestled near the Tamiš River in Northeast Serbia. The deep black angular anomalies indicate a large number of burnt houses.

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Museum Artifacts Archaeology Cultures 52

ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Both students circulated to visit their other favorite teachers with whom they’d crafted solar ovens, made plant medicine tinctures and built a banana museum. On the way out of the building, they hugged and dapped up underclassmen they played soccer with or were involved in the student union with when they were students.

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Charter School Museum Public School Cultures 103

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

and running a deficit in 2018 and 2019, the most recent years for which tax documents are available. million by the USDA to expand and renovate its student center at what a spokesman said was 2 percent interest, but he said it had declined another $61 million to build a fossil park and museum.

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Economics Library Government Museum 143

Sapiens

MAY 28, 2024

as if i have not seen her only in empty documents, in archives drenched in blood. The Visit – Listen the bedroom is a chamber of whispers. the midnight wind blows the curtains, pushing air into silk lungs. she sits in the corner, outlined faintly by the soft glare of the moon. she does not wear clothes, no nightrobe, no plush slippers.

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Archiving Museum Heritage History 100

ACRE

JUNE 27, 2023

The Delta Cultural Center is a museum and educational complex that tells the story of a land and its people, capturing what makes the Arkansas Delta region unique. It is the mission of the Delta Cultural Center to research, document, interpret and present the heritage of the people of the Arkansas Delta.

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Cultures Heritage K-12 Museum 52

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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Cultures Heritage Civic Engagement Civics 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

It pores over dense financial documents to examine how the university handles its money. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum that focuses on economic policy. Photo: Diane Weiss for The Hechinger Report. This club doesn’t organize intramural sports or plan keg parties or produce the yearbook.

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Library Sociology Economics Museum 105

Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2024

British Museum records describe a message stick adorned with etched motifs, featuring depictions of ships, houses, trees, and geographical landmarks. Kelly emphasizes, "Our goal is not only to document these message sticks but also to ensure that Indigenous voices are central to their interpretation and preservation.”

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Heritage Artifacts Museum Cultures 52

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

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. Her speeches, including her famous “Ain’t I a Woman?” ” address, challenged the prejudices against both Black Americans and women.

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Museum Social Studies Advocacy Heritage 52

Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

She also spent time at the NHHC’s UAB documenting artifacts from their considerable historical collection in their laboratory. We met up with Meagan and her husband, Max, and after discussing the internship as well as the Bible Museum, we made it to the park, where some had already gathered and begun getting the grills ready.

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Anthropology Heritage Museum Artifacts 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2017

The benefits of such a commitment include helping libraries, museums, colleges, and universities to meet their requirements as well as enabling a broad community of researchers and scholars to make productive use of the JSTOR library. Related: Schools collect reams of data, inspiring a move to make sense of it all.

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Digital Resources Library Museum Economics 59

Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Applicants should title their documents in the following way: “Last name_CV” and “Last name_Statement.” CPS’s connections within and beyond the UMN will support fellows in engaging regional scholars, special collections, and museums. If you have any questions, please contact Noah Segal ( nsegal@umn.edu ).

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Cultures History Archiving Museum 52

ASHP CML

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Participants also will enjoy hands-on sessions in major New York museums and archival collections, plus time to prepare individual projects, undertake research in local archives, and meet with the three principal institute faculty members, Joshua Brown, Sarah Burns, and Gregory Downs.

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Cultures Archiving Museum Humanities 40

Students of History

JANUARY 3, 2023

One way to do this is to incorporate a variety of primary sources into lessons, including documents and speeches from underrepresented groups. 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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Social Studies Teaching Historic Sites Primary Sources 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

Holocaust Memorial Museum. Historical documents and literary fiction make up the curriculum. English teacher Justin Bilton and history teacher Jason Stark created and team-teach the class.

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High School Economics Museum Charter School 92

ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

A document that no one else has interpreted. On Todd’s free day, he headed to the Louvre, arriving early enough to enter as soon as the museum opened. “I “You don’t want to read 30 articles,” the professor says, “you want to read seven.” I stayed there for seven hours, absorbing the art, just sponging it all up,” he says. “I

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Library Psychology Primary Sources Humanities 113

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

At many schools, a home life like Alyssa’s would be an outlier — but here it’s written into the founding documents of the school. Closer to home, she saw the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Apollo Theater and toured Columbia University and the Borough of Manhattan Community College. to visit the monuments and Howard University.

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Charter School Elementary School Museum Tutoring 111

All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

George’s Museum. Plagiarism, misrepresentation, and exploitation by the established professionals: power and tactics. Handbook of Academic Integrity. Ruskin at Walkley: Reconstructing the St. link] Vander Kloet, M.A. 2024): Off the side of the desk: equity work in Canadian teaching and learning centres. 2024.2364709

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Advocacy Pedagogy Geography Tradition 40

Sapiens

APRIL 23, 2025

The demonstration workshop was part of a pilot study for the Traveling Treasures project, a transnational collaboration between the National Museum of Liberia (NMOL) and the Back-to-Africa Heritage and Archaeology Project (BAHA). has a long, often poorly documented history. The transfer of Liberian objects to the U.S.

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Cultures Museum Heritage Archaeology 64

Anthropology News

MARCH 31, 2025

At the University of Oregon, we built a collaborative team of faculty and museum staff to bring students, campus, and community stakeholders together in planning and implementing an exhibition of an installation of the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP) Hostile Terrain 94 exhibition.

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Museum Anthropology Humanities Social Justice 88

Anthropology.net

APRIL 17, 2025

. “The repeated presence of butchered bustard remains in the graves suggests a deliberate and symbolic act,” said ornithologist Joanne Cooper of the Natural History Museum in London. A Cultural Link That Spans Millennia The evidence from Taforalt does more than document the diet of early North Africans.

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Artifacts Archaeology Museum Humanities 95