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Announcing the 2024 Students of History Scholarship Winner

Students of History

We're excited to announce that Toyosi Dada, a graduating senior at Towson High School, has been awarded the 2024 Students of History Scholarship. This prestigious scholarship, which has been awarded each year since 2017, recognizes a college-bound senior who has excelled in history education. ” Ms.

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Claudia Goldin, Women & Work: The 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences (in Memory of Alfred Nobel)

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Women have always worked, and yet their economic contributions are often undervalued. Her economic history research expands 200 years to provide an account of women’s participation in labor markets over time and describe the history of women’s continuing economic liberation. History: H.5.USH.8

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Can Texas Secede?

History Havoc

Background During the Civil War, the Confederate government of Texas sold US bonds owned by the state. Regardless of our status in the economic world, things would drastically change. appeared first on History Havoc. Plus it would be ludicrous. After the war the state filed suit saying this was done so illegally.

History 92
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The Election of FDR and the Immediate Response to the Great Depression

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Marcus Witcher and covers the 1932 election, the transition of power from the Hoover to FDR administration, and early economic policies designed to combat the Great Depression. The lesson could be used as a precursor to a unit on the New Deal in history classrooms or as a case study on economic policy impacts in a social science course.

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The Root of Haiti's Misery From The New York Times

World History Teachers Blog

But self-rule did not mean economic independence. The French forced the Haitian government to accept a loan out of which they could pay the reparations. The essay is an ideal assignment for world history students studying the unit on revolutions in the 1700 and 1800s. How was Haiti able to pay reparations?

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Researchers Have Identified the Starkest Cases of School District Segregation

ED Surge

This large economic and racial divide between two adjacent districts in Michigan shows that school segregation persists in the 21st century. But some district pairs revealed far higher levels of economic segregation, like Frankenmuth and Saginaw, whose poverty rates differ by about 45 percentage points. Its poverty rate is 50 percent.

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Baltoscandia: The geopolitical ghost that may just have a future

Strange Maps

But even without a government, a flag, and most other trappings of actual nationhood, Baltoscandia has a history, a raison d’être , and perhaps even a future. After centuries of foreign rule, first by Germans, then by Russians, the three Baltic states are masters in their own houses for the first time in their history.

Geography 111