The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

I didn’t explore my Korean heritage until college and only learned about LGBTQ+ historical leaders in my late twenties. Still, my love of history had an outlet in school. Researchers have found that culturally relevant education can increase grades, participation and critical thinking skills and can lead to higher graduation rates.

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Heritage Artifacts Local History Social Studies 131

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. If your community is like mine, it’s likely much of your town’s rural history hasn’t been preserved in a meaningful way.

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Oral History Public History History Museum 100

Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

I was in Accra, Ghana, for my field research at the time, and the other participants were located in Oslo, Norway. How do you study Blackness in a place that denies its local history of anti-Indigenous and anti-Black structural violence? Black Boy ” was the name of one of Norway’s most widely used spice brands until 2010.

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Heritage Cultures History Archiving 52