NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

At the grocery store: “ Your students did such a great job documenting our local history! What’s the name of that young lady who did a history project about Dickson Mounds? These are just a few interactions I’ve had since my students and I shared our public history project, “The Oral History of Forgottonia.”

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Teaching American History

MARCH 4, 2025

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. The West in History and Memory at National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, OK. For more information about our Multi-Day seminars and to see the schedule of events please click here. Free professional development.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable? The report, released in May during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, surveyed over 5,000 Americans from diverse backgrounds and includes findings about Asian American stereotypes, visibility and acceptance. There are signs of progress. Nationally, in 2021, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

NEW YORK — There’s a new look to history classes in New York City schools: a curriculum in Asian American and Pacific Islander history. history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum. Now, they say, it’s time for their history classes, educators and textbooks to catch up. KELLEN ZENG.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. Teaching American History hosts Multi-Day seminars at no cost to American history and government teachers. For more information about our Multi-Day seminars and to see the schedule of events please click here. See a sample itinerary here.

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Sapiens

MARCH 19, 2024

São Tomé’s role in this devastating and transformational history is largely unknown—some people have never heard of the tiny nation. Our team aims to illuminate the island’s central and brutal place in world history. Reconstructing their experiences and Praia Melão’s place in history will take more research.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

Pseudoarchaeology, or “alternative history,” draws major attention and casts itself as legitimate. Beyond Hancock’s creations, Ancient Aliens dominates the History Channel. Some universities are defunding and dismantling programs in archaeology , history , anthropology , art history , ancient languages , and classical studies.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

The best class I ever taught centered on the history of Washington, D.C. They learned about the history of their neighborhoods and the origins of the music they listened to. I didn’t explore my Korean heritage until college and only learned about LGBTQ+ historical leaders in my late twenties. This generation of students.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 8, 2024

New research 1 into ancient DNA from this site has now provided groundbreaking insights into the genetic history of its inhabitants, revealing a remarkable genetic continuity over thousands of years. The Oakhurst site, which dates back over 12,000 years, provides a unique opportunity to explore southern Africa's genetic and cultural history.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

This discovery lends further support to the emerging "tripartite origins" theory, suggesting that the genetic heritage of the Japanese population is far more complex than earlier models suggested. Discovering the Emishi Legacy The presence of the Emishi ancestral group adds a fascinating layer to Japan’s genetic history.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It turns out my skillset helps map places and histories that are significant in Wajãpi Oral Traditions. Together, we record every mark of the past as a relevant piece of history on Wajãpi Indigenous Land. We document their places and histories through GPS mapping, audio recordings, drawings, and photographs.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Rationally, I know my choice not to buy bananas (or pineapple) is so minimal within the issue when you think about the overall systemic structure, complexity, and history of our unjust food system. But if we share information with ten people and then they start to care and then they change their behaviors, thenthat knowledge and care spreads.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

When MySpace lost 50 million songs during a server migration , it wasnt just a glitchit was a reshaping of independent music history, determined by infrastructure choices rather than cultural value. The ability to preserve history is a form of power, and that power is rarely in the hands of the public. But migration is never neutral.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Details of the plan remain scant, but a draft framework calls for the revitalization of Native languages across all “ages, grade levels, and ability levels, in formal and informal places and settings.” Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This caustic combination of biased or incomplete information and a lack in public awareness very easily fuels damaging stereotypes of Asians as perpetually and dangerously foreign and “taking over” what are seen as limited resources, especially during times of social and economic instability and widening gaps in wealth and income inequality.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

” The researchers connect this concept to our evolutionary history. This study emphasizes the need to reconsider the role of playgrounds in child development, drawing from evolutionary theory to inform modern public health practices. 1 Fannin, L.

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NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Since 2017, NCHE has offered professional learning colloquia that focus on “Technology’s Impact in American History (TIAH).” With Francis’s help, we began to frame a colloquium to focus on the pre-19 th century period and chose the title, “ Uncovering Lost Voices in American History.”

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2024

Instead, he posits them as sophisticated tools for social coordination, validation, and the transmission of nuanced non-linguistic information. Kelly asserts, "They were more than just tools for relaying information; they were lifelines, binding communities together in a network of shared understanding."

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life. Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present. Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center. Image via Step Out Buffalo.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. Documentation depends on the information families can access to prove their lineage.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 13, 2024

Now, a groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications 1 has unveiled new age estimates and revised provenance information for these enigmatic remains, reshaping our understanding of human evolution in the region. With each discovery and breakthrough, we come one step closer to unraveling the mysteries of our shared human heritage.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 24, 2023

Credit : Universal History Archive / Getty Images) And that’s not all that’s wrong with this map. And if all that still left things in doubt, he could always ask the king to send out scouts to check or complement the available information. Maqbul Ahmad, and chapter 7 in The History of Cartography , Vol. Got a strange map?

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

How do you study Blackness in a place that denies its local history of anti-Indigenous and anti-Black structural violence? One of the challenges we face as African Norwegians is that our history in the country we have come to call home often is not well known, both within and outside our communities. As we’ve always done.

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Strange Maps

JUNE 26, 2023

Credit : Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) This is by design. On one of those hunting trips, The Secret History of the Mongols tells the story of Genghis Khan resting under a tree, exclaiming: “What a beautiful view. The mountain was of great spiritual importance in his formative years, and thereafter.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 9, 2024

We invited the Curtin group to determine the ages of a series of minerals in two of the Altar Stone fragments, hoping this would provide information on the Altar Stone’s age and possibly its origin. This method dates mineral grains in the rock and gives an age “fingerprint,” tying the grains to a particular region.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Herrington honored his heritage by carrying six eagle feathers, a braid of sweet grass, two arrowheads, and the Chickasaw Nation’s flag into space. Elliott-High Eagle, Oral History, interviewed by David Zierler Oct. He became the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe to fly in space. Lori Arviso Alvord,” retrieved Nov.

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TeachThought

OCTOBER 10, 2024

They’re informative, compelling, and even, at times, pretty darn funny, so make sure to check out one, two, or even all of these great science programs the next time you’re looking for a little edutainment. It’s more serious than some of the previous podcasts we’ve mentioned, but more informative as well.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

But within those blanket terms to describe “minorities” are dozens of cultures with unique heritages, ethnicities, and geographic locations. People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. The Making of Asian America: A History." who are not white. and in its schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This story also appeared in Slate Families never receive a “score” on the test, which is available in both English or Spanish, or any information about how it is used in the admissions process — just word on whether their child made it in. The district communications office did not respond to multiple queries about the process.)

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 2, 2023

“And the reality is that the Arab heritage and the Arab culture is something that is across content areas. “So you have all of these pieces of Arab history that are either in the past, that don’t even exist anymore, or in the present but more in such a stereotypical negative concept of everything as war.”

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ACRE

JUNE 21, 2023

The Lakeport Plantation, an Arkansas State University Heritage Site, in Lake Village, Arkansas is one of the only remaining antebellum homes in Arkansas on the Mississippi River. Lakeport Plantation was donated to Arkansas State University in 2001 by the Sam Epstein Angel family. It was built in 1859 for Lycurgus and Lydia Johnson.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This catalog will hopefully generate updated estimates of the number of active languages and information on how these languages are being used. My task set me on a path to understanding the history and craft of counting languages. They also need to translate information to ensure as many people as possible can access various resources.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

My own understanding of school choice has been heavily informed by Diane Ravitch’s 2013 book Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools. Cara Fitzpatrick When I read this book, I learned some fascinating and frankly ugly things about the history of school choice in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

I never took a course in African American history during that time, the late 1980s and early 90s, despite being enveloped in Blackness in my neighborhoods, churches and schools. My knowledge of Black history came as sprinkling rain, a paltry amount that was never enough to have a significant impact.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

The goal is to raise awareness about how anti-history education laws and book bans — and their chilling effect — threaten any chance of an informed and engaged democracy. This was 2021, and Iowa had just passed its history censorship law. Here are highlights from the remarks. But it doesn’t end there.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

On Rusinga Island, a grassroots group is celebrating the field assistants who helped find famous fossils and inspiring future generations to study science and ancient history. The group shares information about the islands ancient history and the role of local collaborators in discovering that heritage.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Collaborative Research The groundbreaking study was led by IPHES-CERCA in collaboration with the University Rovira i Virgili, the Catalan Cultural Heritage Research Institute, the University of Girona Institute of History Research, the University of Bordeaux, and Catalonia’s International University.

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