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Decades Project for US History

Active History Teacher

Have you ever assigned a decades project for your US History class? You’ve finished your US History curriculum and need something engaging for students to go as an end of the year project? It’s time to try a US History end of the year decades project! Join The Active History Teacher Community! Are you like me?

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

NCHE

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? These are just a few interactions I’ve had since my students and I shared our public history project, “The Oral History of Forgottonia.”

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It’s Time to Replace “Prehistory” With “Deep History”

Sapiens

A team of archaeologists working in Southeast Asia is pushing toward a deeper understanding of history that amplifies Indigenous and local perspectives to challenge traditional archaeological timelines. Instead, we advocate for “deep history.” The post It’s Time to Replace “Prehistory” With “Deep History” appeared first on SAPIENS.

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People’s History of Memorial Day

Zinn Education Project

Memorial Day Massacre Check out the documentary and companion oral history collection, Memorial Day Massacre: Workers Die, Film Buried about the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre, when police in Chicago shot at and gassed a peaceful gathering of striking steelworkers and their supporters, killing 10 people, most of them shot in the back. “The

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APSA Oral History Project: Contributions by Scholars of Color Interview Series

Political Science Now

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.

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Promotion of Learning Beyond School

A Principal's Reflections

The following is an excerpt from the program detailing the Silver Award winning project of Troop 58 (the majority of the girls in this Troop are NMHS students): Textbooks can tell you facts, but it takes people to make history come alive. Thus our New Milford Oral History Project began. All I can say is WOW!

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We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

Zinn Education Project

On Monday, September 16, 2024 , historian Kellie Carter Jackson will discuss We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance with Teaching for Black Lives co-editor Jesse Hagopian and Rethinking Schools executive director Cierra Kaler-Jones. Kellie Carter Jackson is fearless. We Refuse is proof.

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