Sapiens

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This picture from 1978 shows the relative size of 4-year-old Grace Latimer next to a replica of Lucy on display at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in Ohio. Dated to 3.2 million years ago, Lucy was the oldest and most complete human ancestor ever found at the time of her discovery.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

She credits a training program through the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan for preparing her to do so. Museums have largely escaped the culture wars roiling many school districts and are still seen as trusted institutions. government, according to data from the American Alliance of Museums.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

As part of an ongoing series examining Contributions of Scholars of Color , the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Department conducted a a second set of oral history interviews during the 2024 National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) Annual Meeting held in Los Angeles, California. Watch the full interview series on YouTube.

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Items in museums are often not dated either or from more recent times. It is difficult to find examples of early African iron. Almost all pictures found on the net relate to commercial items, either without a date or the 19th / 20th century.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 12, 2011

The state of NJ mandates that the Holocaust be covered at some point in the history curriculum. In addition to this content being assimilated into various history courses, NMHS also offers an elective course on the topic. Here is a little history. Holocaust Museum last year? Do you consider yourself Jewish or catholic?

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Anthropology News

MARCH 31, 2025

At the University of Oregon, we built a collaborative team of faculty and museum staff to bring students, campus, and community stakeholders together in planning and implementing an exhibition of an installation of the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP) Hostile Terrain 94 exhibition.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 14, 2025

"We see a lag between when the genetic evidence tells us language capacity was present and when symbolic artifacts appear in the record," notes Ian Tattersall, a paleoanthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History and co-author of the study. This challenges the long-held view that language and symbolism arose in tandem.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

A Breakthrough in Armenia The HKU team tested their innovative approach at a field site in Armenia, a region with a rich Early Bronze Age history. The team matched 3D scanned pottery fragments with physical artifacts, streamlining their study of sherds located in distant museum collections. 1 Cobb, P. J., & Azizbekyan, H.

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Women's History Network

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The 33rd annual conference, which will take place on 4-5 September, 2025 will explore and celebrate women in the archives, libraries and museums and the challenge of uncovering their presence. We encourage approaches that foreground marginalised voices and imaginative approaches.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Students will analyze pieces from the online gallery provided by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and compare the works in terms of perspective, realism, subject matter, imagery, scale, and the use of space. Image credit: [link] These teachers have provided students with writing scaffolds and exemplars to help them achieve this goal.

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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? I remember when I was a little girl, you could still go to the museum and see the Native American remains before the governor ordered the museum to cover them up.”

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

A recent study led by researchers from London’s Natural History Museum and the KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy reignites the debate over whether Homo sapiens and Neanderthals ( Homo neanderthalensis ) should be classified as separate species. Neanderthals and Homo sapiens are both humans, but they differ in many ways.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 15, 2025

But behind every collection of bones stored in laboratories and museums lies a deeper story—one of power, consent, and ethics. These were once living people, with families and histories. The human skeleton has long been a resource for science, offering insights into disease, migration, and evolution.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) have identified semi-domesticated maize specimens from caves in Brazil’s Peruaçu Valley, revealing a unique chapter in the crop’s evolutionary history. The history and evolution of maize. Goodman, M.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 7, 2025

They congregated in Vondelpark, close to the citys famed museums and canals, and also in Oosterpark, where I jogged daily. But many species have traveled across the globe throughout human history, including as part of human trade and migration patterns, and not all of them are seen as problematic. The red-ringed parakeet (a.k.a.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson. What happened to Emmett Till was brutal, but the tragedy has been sanitized in Mississippi textbooks and in discussions of this state’s violent, racist history. The museums are vast, engaging and traumatizing. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Image credit: The Natural History Museum via Alamy Stock Photo) The Role of the Pinky in Early Tool Use The researchers observed that the pinky finger played a significant role in grasping, particularly in early hominins like A. These findings point to a progressive evolution of dexterity and fine motor skills within early hominins.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 4, 2025

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. Native American Leadership, Identity, and Resistance at Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center in Mashantucket, CT. Native American Leadership, Identity, and Resistance at Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center in Mashantucket, CT.

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TeachThought

JULY 12, 2024

How To Connect Schools And Communities Using Technology by Terry Heick It’s possible that there is no time in the history of education that our systems of educating have been so out of touch with the communities. Growing populations, shifting communities, and increasingly inwardly-focused schools all play a role. There are ways.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

A decolonized retelling of this discovery must acknowledge their role in unearthing one of the most important fossils of the 20th century​ Decolonizing Paleoanthropology The Taung Child is not just a fossil—it is a symbol of the complicated history of paleoanthropology in Africa. Harvard University Press. Shipman, P. Pickering, R.,

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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. appeared first on Teaching American History. Free professional development. What more could you ask for? See a sample itinerary here.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

These make me wonder at the many silently maintained museums of absence that form an unofficial archive of conflict, telling stories that official histories often overlook. I often discuss my grandfathers life and loss with my grandmother. She appreciates sharing details about his biography to me, perhaps because I carry his name.

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

The crossing of Morgan’s men into Indiana is steeped in local history and well-remembered by local residents. Fortunately, however, I can direct you to the wonderfully descriptive Meade County History Museum in Brandenburg, a center of high-quality scholarship and research in this region.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

1933-2024 Credit: Penny de los Santos Sally McLendon (1933-2024) Sally McLendon was an American scholar of Indigenous languages, cultures, and histories in North America, with a special focus on the Indigenous languages and communities of Northern California.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Within a few decades, they built an empire that stretched from the Eurasian steppe to the heart of Central Europe, reshaping political landscapes and leaving an imprint on European history. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0094-2 Examines the genetic history of steppe populations, including the Scythians, Sarmatians, and early Turkic groups.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

Pandemic closures prompted hundreds of museums, art galleries and zoos around the world to launch virtual field trips in the last year. But a program offered through a museum in Utah sought to offer a different kind of virtual science field trip. Subscribe today! They see that this is a real place,” said Larson.

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NCHE

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Want to connect with fellow classroom teachers and museum educators? Looking for advice on how to navigate teaching inclusive history during this time of divisive rhetoric? Sessions will be led by dynamic classroom teachers and museum educators. Looking for fresh ways to teach about the American Revolution?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2021

Over the past decade, researchers, museum professionals and educators have started to explore the use of virtual and augmented reality in relation to Holocaust education and memory. One even said she had “never wanted to learn history’’ before. It’s intended for larger museum, school and community spaces.

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Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Hundreds of PreK-12 teaching and learning resources that support developmentally appropriate skill-building and leverage both well-known and lesser-known stories in American history are freely available online for use in the classroom and at home

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 6, 2011

While learning about the history of the Holocaust, we became more than just a group of students and teachers. We are so grateful that Eva, who has never spoken in public about her family''s history, was willing to meet with us at our hotel in Prague. History is not just about the pages in a textbook. We became a family.

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Sapiens

MARCH 17, 2025

This map-shawl , itself inscribed by acts of erasure and extraction, is part of the Victoria and Albert Museums South & South East Asia Collection, where it is attributed to an unknown artist/maker. The sixth erasure overlays a photo of a 19th-century embroidered map-shawl of Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir and Jammu.

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. When students can understand how one topic might be covered in English, History and Science, they’re able to grasp it more deeply.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. EdSurge spent a morning with the teachers as they toured Smithsonian museums in small groups. They taught Welch that history is made up of “little moments” in people’s lives. history teacher in Pittsburgh.

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Life and Landscapes

JANUARY 6, 2025

Thoughts of history bring forth lives once living. As I sit with my breakfast, staring out on this river of history, I wonder who was the first European to see it?France There is a good loading ramp at the park, and an ambitious array of bicycle paths planned and constructed for your visit through the city’s history.

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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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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Since European contact, Indigenous people have struggled to protect the lands —which outsiders often describe as a vast “ outdoor museum ”—from vandalism and desecration, organizing through formal and informal channels for the protection of the Bears Ears landscape.

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