Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Please watch this short film Ordinary Treasures: Objects from Home first then progress to read our piece. This short film co-created by Dublin City University Irish Refugee Network asks the simple question, “If you had to leave home, what one object would you bring with you? “ Introduction: Objects in the Maelstrom “Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.” Henry Ford In the heart of Dublin City University, a room hums with the energy of co-creation and laughter

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Recent research 1 led by Flinders University reveals that Paleolithic hunter-gatherers on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus were responsible for the extinction of two endemic megafauna species: the dwarf hippopotamus ( Phanourios minor ) and the dwarf elephant ( Palaeoloxodon cypriotes ). These extinctions occurred within a span of less than 1,000 years, driven by hunting practices and the environmental impacts of the early human settlers on the island.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

This week, I wanted to highlight our continuing early ed math coverage by talking to Joe Hong, who wrote a story about a Milwaukee school district trying to revive methods it used for math instruction a decade ago. Our conversation below has been lightly edited for length and clarity. A small group of teachers in Milwaukee are trying to return to math strategies the district used from 2004-2014.

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Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Through a convening of educators and community organizations, new education resources for students spotlight local histories in engaging new formats, telling stories from right in their own backyards

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Two superintendents share their perspectives on priorities, aspirations, and vision for the coming school year.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

This story is a collaboration between Grist and High Country News and is reprinted with permission. On a wet spring day in June, fog shrouded the Mission Mountains on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwest Montana. Silver beads of rain clung to blades of grass and purple lupine. On a ridge overlooking St. Mary’s Lake in the southeastern corner of the reservation, the land was mostly cleared of trees after state-managed logging operations.

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Women's History Network

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Registration is now open for the one day seminar ‘Sayers in the 21st Century’ Programme: Sayers in the 21st Century – One-Day Seminar Friday, 11th October, 2024 Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL IAS Common Ground G11, Ground Floor, South Wing UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT A joint programme between IAS and the Dorothy L […]

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ASHP CML

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In spring 2024, Trystin Curbelo joined ASHP as an intern to work with researcher Carli Snyder on a new collection for our popular database, Social History for Every Classroom (SHEC). Carli and Trystin compiled primary sources and collaboratively wrote teaching activities, essential questions, and a background essay. The collection, Workers Behind Bars: The Exploitation of Incarcerated Labor , focuses on prison labor and the economic dimensions of mass incarceration in the United States from the

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

It is no mystery that the American political scene has become highly polarized in the past ten years. Research by the Pew Research Center has shown substantial increases over that time in the cynicism, distrust, and even disdain that members of each political party have for the other. One might say that the problem of political polarization has become something of a pandemic as of late.

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ASHP CML

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Ahead of the fall semester, we released an expanded and updated beta edition of our popular textbook, Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s History. Now available as a free, open-access digital resource, this version includes a comprehensive social history textbook alongside thousands of primary sources from our History Matters website, and new teaching resources.

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Life and Landscapes

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

© 2020 Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr. By Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr. (1) (Office of General Counsel, Kentucky Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, ca. 1980). (2) How does one begin a study of environmental history? Even that phrase is a little bit squirrely. Is it the human upon which we focus, or the environment wherein we are located?

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ASHP CML

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

ASHP is thrilled to welcome Stefano Morello, Assistant Director for Digital Projects. Stefano is currently finishing a Ph.D. from the Graduate Center’s program in English, where his work has focused on digital humanities and American Studies. As a student, Stefano actively participated in the New Media Lab and served as a GCDI Digital Fellow. At the ASHP, he will be developing new digital projects, helping to manage the New Media Lab, and launching the new digital version of Who Built America?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

This story was originally published by The 19th. As efforts to expand the child tax credit and provide paid family leave have stalled at the federal level, states are increasingly incentivizing private employers to step in and fill one of the other most painful gaps for working parents: child care. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 17 states offer child care tax credits to “employers that operate or contract out child care services for their employees.

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ASHP CML

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In June, ASHP researcher Emily Uruchima (Kichwa) participated in Indigenous Voices of the Americas: Celebrating the National Museum of the American Indian at the 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festiva l. This year the annual festival highlighted the work of artists, cultural workers, healers and storytellers, offering the space to share contemporary and traditional teachings from their respective communities across the globe.

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ASHP CML

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

ASHP mourns the passing of Simin Farkhondeh, who served as director of our Labor at the Crossroads (LaborX) public access and CUNY TV program from 1995 to 2006. Simin produced and directed the monthly program covering a broad range of activism, including immigrant and gay and lesbian worker rights, racism on the job, NAFTA and GATT, various union organizing drives, prison labor, sweatshops, and the rights of welfare recipients.

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ASHP CML

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Chloe Stoia is a first-year History PhD student at the Graduate Center. She graduated summa cum laude from The College of New Jersey with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. Her undergraduate thesis topic was female sterilization in Puerto Rico from the 1920s to the 1990s. While at the GC, Chloe looks forward to continuing her research on the intersections between race, birth control, and empire.

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ASHP CML

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Intern William Diep, a Columbia University student, returned to work with us again this summer and has played a central role in conceptualizing, researching, scripting, filming, editing, and posting TikTok videos. He attended sessions of the 2024 LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States Summer Institute and produced videos about the group’s visits to the LGBTQ+ Community Center, the Lesbian Herstory Archives, and Greenwich Village.

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