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. It’s too early to tell the overall impacts of this plan’s implementation.

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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

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. These European burials included individuals with "eastern-type" traits—characteristics often associated with nomadic steppe traditions.

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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 News

MARCH 27, 2025

Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. When MySpace lost 50 million songs during a server migration , it wasnt just a glitchit was a reshaping of independent music history, determined by infrastructure choices rather than cultural value.

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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 Transportation in such a river town is a tradition. Check out the museum. It must lead to someplace important, an important place to be exploring.

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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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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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Zinn Education Project

JULY 15, 2024

The series, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is focused on six themes that are at the heart of SNCC’s history of grassroots organizing: the organizing tradition, voting rights, Black Power, women and gender, freedom teaching, and art and culture in movement building.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Colonial archaeologies denigrate non-Western societies to the status of static yet living museums from which the nature of the past might be inferred. The unchanged and living museum like character has been used in legitimizing the colonial rule over its subjects.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

This beautiful tradition of Black freedom should be taught in school. Background on Juneteenth Here are key points from scholars Greg Carr, Christopher Wilson, and Clint Smith on the history beyond the traditional textbook narrative about Juneteenth. But We Can’t Teach? Source: Alamy.In The Brown v.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures. Many museums offer online resources that you can use instead. For example, the Museum of Chinese in America in Chinatown, Manhattan, NY, hosts a MOCAKIDS Storytime program on Zoom every 2nd and 4th Thursday at 4 p.m.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The presentation of the findings of archaeology to the public cannot avoid difficult political issues, and the museum curator and the popularizer today have responsibilities which some can be seen to have failed. Naturally, intangible cultural heritage is more difficult to preserve than physical objects. New York: Thames and Hudson 2.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

A groundbreaking study 1 led by researchers at the Nagoya University Museum in Japan offers fresh insights into the cultural evolution of Homo sapiens during their dispersal across Eurasia roughly 50,000 to 40,000 years ago. 1 Kadowaki, S., Wakano, J. Watanabe, A., Tsukada, K., Tarawneh, O., & Massadeh, S.

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Thrive in Grade Five

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Be careful when teaching the history of the United States. We need to emphasize that Native American groups were (and are still) unique with distinct language, beliefs, traditions, and dress. I will be the first to admit, I’m guilty of this too. I didn’t realize these phrases were disrespectful because I’d heard them all my life.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

But even then, teachers of traditional U.S. and global history classes are often crunched for time by the end of the school year and struggle to fit in discussions of any events that happened after the end of the Cold War in the 1990s. It’s going from the front pages of the newspaper to the history books.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

New degrees like the Sister of Arts and Mistress of Arts receded into history. In addition, there’s the growth in noncollegiate educational providers, including museums and industry, along with new higher education-business partnerships. We now live in a time that is more open to rethinking college and university credentials.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

William Taylor, co-author of the study and curator of archaeology at the CU Museum of Natural History, explained that the earliest definitive evidence of humans using horses for transport comes from the region near the Ural Mountains, dating back approximately 4,000 years. ” Can Hips Tell the Full Story? 1 Hosek, L.,

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Sapiens

MARCH 5, 2024

This means the smallest amounts of more recent contamination from the burial environment, or from museum conservation materials, can make dating finds from these sites extremely challenging. But it has been unclear whether these were made by Neanderthals or modern humans.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2024

CPS’s connections within and beyond the UMN will support fellows in engaging regional scholars, special collections, and museums. Founded in 2021, it is the latest iteration in a long line of interdisciplinary ventures into the study of the past at Minnesota including the Mellon-funded Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World.

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Strange Maps

MARCH 1, 2024

Sprinkled through Homer’s twin epics, Felice Vinci spotted a heap of similar anecdotes that pointed away from the traditional setting of the Iliad , an account of the Trojan War, and the Odyssey , the story of Ulysses’ 10-year journey home to Ithaca after the fall of Troy. Mosaic from the Bardo National Museum in Tunis.

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World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 14, 2022

Two projects from Asia include the discovery of a Tang shipwreck, which takes you to an exhibit at the Singapore Museum , and a Story Map follows the early thirteenth-century travels of Yelu Chucai and Wugusun Zhongduan, who travel from north China to Central Asia after the Mongol empire's first conquests under Chinggis Khan.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Sanfelippo found his district’s social-media rallying cry during a school field trip to Fall Creek’s history museum, where vintage banners, pennants and pins were emblazoned “Go Crickets!”. “We “Parents can follow the Twitter feed, and say, ‘Don’t you have that paper due soon in social studies class?’ ” Terrill said.

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Society for Classical Studies

AUGUST 9, 2024

This session invites papers that explore points of interaction between art and systematic gender-based violence in the visual traditions of the ancient Mediterranean world. What degree of agency do the subjects of such violence have over the production of these visual traditions. Keywords: 1.

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Strange Maps

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Apart from its golden-domed headquarters, the campus also includes tyrbes (holy tombs of previous Debedabas); extensive archives on the Order’s history, including audio recordings of Bektashi musical traditions; and a museum and a library.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

A dorm stay is out of the question for too many of its 18 participants, who must also earn money for their families and take care of siblings, said Ben DeSmidt , a Carthage classics professor who runs the summer program together with history professor Eric Pullin. More engaging than traditional summer school.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2024

British Museum records describe a message stick adorned with etched motifs, featuring depictions of ships, houses, trees, and geographical landmarks. Unlocking the Mysteries of Message Sticks Dr. Kelly's work challenges traditional perceptions of message sticks as mere memory aids. .” 1 Kelly, P., Bibiko, H.-J.,

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

We hope students of Asian or Pacific Islander heritage share their experiences and their cultural traditions with their peers, and teachers include the contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans to our collective history in lessons this month. Mostly forgotten by history, thousands of Chinese immigrants, who came to the U.S.

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ACRE

JUNE 9, 2023

The history of Dyess Colony, along with the Cash family, hold many stories and learning opportunities. The home has two modest bedrooms, a dining room and kitchen with traditional dishware & a wooden cook stove, and a Springer radio in the living area where Johnny Cash would spend hours listening to music.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan — The students in the crowded hall fall silent as Darlene Speidel, an elder and “knowledge keeper” of native traditions, says a prayer in the Lakota language over soup and bannock, a kind of flat bread. “It Photo: Liam Richards. Related: How free college tuition in one country exposes unexpected pros and cons.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

Massachusetts is turning that traditional model on its head by having many schools combine rigorous academics with hands-on career training, now called “career and technical education.” English teacher Justin Bilton and history teacher Jason Stark created and team-teach the class. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Rosie the History Teacher

JULY 31, 2020

History classes from this amazing location in Costa Rica in February 2019! Luckily I considered myself to be pretty tech savvy already, so I didn’t have a huge learning curve with using tools like Google Forms or Kahoot, but I did need to adapt things like museum exhibit projects and collaborative activities to be fully virtual.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Maikko, 2, in pink, Terrance, 1, in red, and Nylah, behind Terrance, dance as their child care provider, Lorna Parks, foreground, claps during a visit by staffers from Detroit’s African-American History Museum. Michael Elsen-Rooney/The Teacher Project. We have very long days.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

In Pasadena, Dufford said, it has been tradition for established families not to send their children to public schools. “So Having lived through the desegregation order, Hirahara, who is now an award-winning mystery writer , wishes more people knew about the history of the city’s schools.

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

” ( Credit : Ernst Haeckel: The History of Creation (1876), translation revised by E. The Kumari Kandam theory remained in history textbooks in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state until the 1980s. Interbreeding with animals eventually produced ape-like ancestors to some of the human races. Let me know at strangemaps@gmail.com.

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

I am joining you from the traditional land of the Haudenosauneee and Anishinaabe peoples, but I grew up on the traditional land of the Abitibiwini Aki and lived for 30 years on the traditional land of the Mississaugas of the Credit. George’s Museum. Ruskin at Walkley is still one of my favourite websites. 2024.2364709

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

15 Women from World History Who Made a Difference Mar. 7, 2022 By Studies Weekly World history is full of remarkable women who changed the way we live today. During Women’s History Month or any time of the year, their stories can inspire your students to dream big and make the difference they want to see in the world.

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