NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

At the grocery store: “ Your students did such a great job documenting our local history! The gas station: “ Hey Joe, I heard you had a student doing some research about local mines in our community. What’s the name of that young lady who did a history project about Dickson Mounds? Hey, will you have Cooper call me?

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Oral History Public History History Museum 100

C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life. These advantages suggest why connections with cultural centers should matter to educators, students and the local community. Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present.

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Cultures Heritage Civic Engagement Civics 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

The best class I ever taught centered on the history of Washington, D.C. I was so excited to teach this class, I spent the summer collecting articles and artifacts from the local library and historical society. They learned about the history of their neighborhoods and the origins of the music they listened to.

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Heritage Artifacts Local History Social Studies 131

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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Heritage Cultures History Archiving 52