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Oral History of Forgottonia: Building a Public History Project in Rural Western Illinois

NCHE

These are just a few interactions I’ve had since my students and I shared our public history project, “The Oral History of Forgottonia.” As part of the NCHE project, The Rural Experience in America , history club students at Cuba High School created a podcast about a local history topic of their choosing.

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How one Minnesota university more than doubled its native student graduation rate

The Hechinger Report

Megan Red Shirt-Shaw, a graduate student in education at the University of Minneapolis-Twin Cities, stands outside the city’s American Indian Center, one of several sites in Minneapolis designed to preserve indigenous traditions. Photo: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.

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