Sapiens

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In featuring three SAPIENS poems, students in a digital anthropology seminar infused video reels for Instagram with vivid history and powerful emotions. ✽ Students were free to choose their poems from the dozens that have been featured at the magazine and to create a social media post that could be published.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Through an audio essay, inspired by John Akomfrah’s documentary “The Last Angel of History,” attention is drawn to South Africa’s evolving visual scene and its engagement with cultural nuances within the NFT AI space. In 1995, filmmaker John Akomfrah crafts and experimental film essay titled Last Angel of History.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

13, 2024 • By Studies Weekly History would not be the same without the inspiring lives of Black humanitarians. For Black History Month, we honor four heroes who advocated for civil rights, fought for the underserved, and spoke out for the welfare of others. 4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians Feb. Black community.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2016

The emotional labor of being black, of mourning black lives regularly, of proving my humanity, our humanity, and of fighting to be valued feels like too much. This work is all of our work; it is a collective struggle for our shared humanity. Our shared humanity depends on it. I hear the ticking a bit too often.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Now my students know that if I am wearing my BLM shirt or Black History Matters shirt at school it is not a performative act — it means that they can hold me accountable to what I have done in and out of class to show that I am living up to that belief. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity.

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Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Within those revolting revolutions are presented new opportunities; opportunities for time’s past history to reassert itself, cross over, and temporarily connect up with future developments. The treasure chest of human experience! Even Schimpff’s Confectionery and the famous Louisville Modjeska Caramel is related to this human eddy.

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Lemuria, the ancestral home of humanity? In 1870, German biologist Ernst Haeckel suggested that Lemuria could be the ancestral home of humanity, as a way of explaining “missing links” in the fossil record of early humans. Interbreeding with animals eventually produced ape-like ancestors to some of the human races.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

User data, in turn, is potentially any information generated via our digital interactions or digitally recorded about us; it might include anything from text conversations to biometrics to credit history—along with any subsequent algorithmic inferring, interpreting, and predicting (however accurate or inaccurate) of our behaviors and attitudes.

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TeachThought

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Orbital Path : Hosted by Dr. Michelle Thaller, it explores the cosmos, space exploration, and humanity’s place in the universe. All in the Mind Lynn Malcolm hosts this excellent (and award-winning) show that is entirely centered on stories about the human brain, touching on fields like psychology, neurology, and more.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. describes in her 2015 book “The Making of Asian America: A History”[iii] that the model minority stereotype has roots in World War II and the Cold War, then was proliferated in the 1980s in newspapers and magazines. and in its schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: A major roadblock to racial justice work in schools is discomfort. Related: History of civil rights movement gets short shrift in Mississippi classrooms. This may be challenging, especially in predominantly white schools. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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Teaching American History

MAY 28, 2024

Naturalist John Muir, whose popular magazine articles had done much to bring about the 1890 Congressional act creating Yosemite National Park , was unanimously named president of the new organization. Muir in fact had been pressed into service by Robert Underwood Johnson , associate editor of the influential New York magazine The Century.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

For much of its history, Antioch was ahead of its counterparts in more enviable ways, including its legacy of promoting social justice. “A Antioch publishes the prestigious literary magazine The Antioch Review. The college motto: “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Teaching American History has recently published World War I and the 1920s: Core Documents , a collection curated by Professor Jennifer D. Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

The unrelenting violence there is a crime against humanity. We owe it to our students — and to the people of Gaza — to explore in our classrooms the history of this violence. The spring issue of Rethinking Schools magazine will feature articles, lessons, and poetry for teaching about Palestine. Subscribe today.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As moose populations in the Southern Rockies have risen, so have vehicle collisions and encounters between humans and moose, which are usually positive but can sometimes turn dangerous, particularly if moose are provoked. EXAMINING THE COMPLICATED HISTORY OF MOOSE MIGRATIONS Moose have certainly seen their fair share of ecological change.

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Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The latest in his Surrounding book series, “Fort Knox including Southern Indiana” is a hefty 760-page mix of—for starters—human, geological, and biological history. Prepare yourself to be educated, fascinated, and motivated by Ronald R. Van Stockum Jr.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

In 1950, amid the fervor of McCarthyism, the Yale Law Journal delved into a controversy between The Nation and The New York City Board of Education after the left-leaning magazine published articles critical of Roman Catholic church doctrine and dogma. The school board voted to remove The Nation from school libraries.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

No doubt, there is a long history of violence in the region — including the Oct. One cannot understand this tragedy without acknowledging its history. Students need to examine how the current crisis is shaped in large part by settler colonial history, and the role played by world powers. Independence or Catastrophe?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: In many cases, school district lines are the more potent Confederate monuments that we still need to take down. To blame teachers, parents and district bureaucracy (especially when they are black) is to ignore the history of how schools became depressed. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Only adherence to the self-evident truth that all human beings were equal could save popular sovereignty—self-government—for all. The post Abraham Lincoln’s Speech at Cooper Union | February 27, 1860 appeared first on Teaching American History. Composite image of Abraham Lincoln (left) and Stephen A.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Despite all his struggles emotionally, he remained on track academically. Newsweek magazine dubbed the city “ Murder Town USA ” in 2014. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points. Early Childhood.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

This directive would have affected about 75,000 people found mentally incapable of managing their financial affairs, according to an analysis by Fortune magazine. Related: When black history isn’t relegated to a single month. Trump also rolled back other rules that attempted to define who exactly is too incompetent to buy guns.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The mural, which stretches the length of a football field, intersperses student artwork with text from the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was inspired by a group of eighth graders who, in December 2012, just months after Yousafzai’s shooting, had attended a human rights conference in Canada.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. I appreciated hearing about the history of how data has been (mis)used to construct a narrative of Black criminality.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

He’s dead.” ‘We must talk about this real history’: Reactions to ‘divisive concepts’ ban A battle over New Hampshire’s “divisive concepts law” has been brewing in the state since 2021. The Hechinger Report, in partnership with The Boston Globe Magazine, analyzed a 264-letter sample to get a sense of both sides.

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