Studies Weekly

MARCH 10, 2025

Most of these immigrants traveled from Ulster a province in northern Ireland to escape religious persecution and economic hardship. However, the first big wave of Irish immigrants came in the early 1700s, according to Catherine B. Shannon from Westfield State College.

American History 90

American History History Teaching Primary Sources 90

Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2024

As readers, we’re in this “apocalypse of every memory” alongside the poet, grasping for hope but having only the chronicling in the poem itself to “let the ahistorical world know me.” The long arc of neocolonialism and economic and environmental exploitation hang like the “ fetid air.”

Anthropology 124

Anthropology History Humanities World History 124

Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In fleeing the dustbowl conditions of the Midwest, the migrants had “left behind many of their material possessions,” Czarnecki writes, but the folklore collectors “reasoned that they brought instead an intangible cultural heritage in their stories and songs.” Students then attempt to rank these components in priority order.

Social Studies 98

Social Studies Research Archiving American History 98