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The Cats Before the Cats: How Leopard Cats Lived Among Ancient Chinese Societies for Millennia

Anthropology.net

Image credit: Hunan Museum Collection Database.) 2025), continue to refine our understanding of how humans and felines have interacted across time and geography. This painting from the bottom of a bowl is one of the earliest depictions of a cat from China, dating to 168 B.C. Science Advances , 7(0221). 1 Han, Y., Doherty, S.,

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Migration Museum Exhibition

Living Geography

A new exhibition opens at the Migration Museum in September: on the 12th. It explores the story of migration and how it has built modern Britain. It's called 'All our Stories'.

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The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum in Piggott, Arkansas

ACRE

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! & Arkansas History, Economics, & Geography.

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Bits and Bytes Don’t Leave Bones

Anthropology News

Whether shifting across geographies, languages, or systems, migration determines what knowledge endures and what is left behind. Large-scale digitization projects, such as those undertaken by museums or archives, often prioritize materials based on perceived cultural or historical value. But survival is never guaranteed.

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His Teachers Showed Him Why History Matters. Now He Wants to Pay That Forward.

ED Surge

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.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross.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 could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. Washington University in St. And so on… .

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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

The Hechinger Report

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. A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr.