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By analyzing 338 distinct knots from archaeological archives and museum collections, they discovered a surprisingly stable repertoire. Despite differences in time, geography, and material culture, many human groups developed the same set of knots—again and again. The phylogeny of Little Red Riding Hood. PLOS ONE , 8(11), e78871.
Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law.
Leopard cats, roughly the size of modern house cats, are adaptable predators with a long history of interaction with human societies. Image credit: Hunan Museum Collection Database.) 2025), continue to refine our understanding of how humans and felines have interacted across time and geography. Science Advances , 7(0221).
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Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. High-income children are more likely to travel, go to museums and attend live performances. Calling for more civics and history instruction is nothing new.
It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. Washington University in St.
Student Exploration Students visiting the museum can take a guided tour of both Hemingway’s studio & the Pheiffer home. Curriculum Guide The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center offers educational programming to all ages! The agricultural history of the Arkansas Delta region. The Great Depression and New Deal.
With its own old kingdoms running along its geography. For it has temples to modern American Pharaohs, statues, monuments, and museums to remember the deeds of great people. You drive along multiple lines of history when you move through LaRue County! ” The rest is literary history! It was entitled, “Mrs.
Here's a description from the Norfolk Museums service: The Singh Twins describe the concept of the jigsaw puzzle a single image comprised of many separate but interlinked pieces as symbolically representing the nature of colonial history as a global story; individual but interconnected narratives shaped by different experiences and viewpoints.
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. Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life.
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. Students can tour Fort Curtis & Battery Park and see how the natural geography of the Arkansas Delta influenced how battles could be fought there during the Civil War.
Sit next to a bronze statue of a boy on a high bluff overlooking the island city in the Loire next to his museum there. To know the publisher, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, is to study French history. Of “Extraordinary Voyages” in the mind of a young Jules Verne, born there in Nantes on February 8, 1828. Verne is still there.
I mention this because I will be talking about geographies of activism and exclusion in a bit, and it is important to remember geographies help inform who we are and our responses and responsibilities to activism, scholarship, who we acknowledge in our citations, and the work that I do in accessibility awareness and inclusive practices.
His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Sloan Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. Her research focuses on early modern political theory and the history of International Relations Thought.
A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. Its open to all disciplines, geographies, periods, methodologies, authors, and audiences across the humanities.
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