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How Colonialism Invented Food Insecurity in West Africa

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Archaeological evidence and Oral Histories show people in what is today Ghana lived sustainably for millennia—until European colonial powers and the widespread trade of enslaved people changed everything. Human history on the continent is full of similar stories of resilience through environmental challenges.

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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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Using Conversational Video

HistoryRewriter

This post will describe the importance of having secondary students engage in oral history projects and describe a new Artificial Intelligence technology StoryFile that can help students practice posing questions to pre-recorded conversational video without the heightened anxiety that comes with actually talking to a real person.

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Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies

Studies Weekly

The attacks on 9/11 affected millions of people, and informed much of the public policy in action today but for these children, that event is history. Benefits of Primary Sources: Humanizing History With primary sources, students as young as kindergarten age can grasp difficult concepts and glean meaning from past events.

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From Theory to Praxis: Entrepreneurship as Resistance 

Anthropology News

Thankfully, we have records of past Afro-descendant entrepreneurs through both written and oral histories. I gazed at the gift of terror on my desk, called a friend, and immediately informed HR of the incident. Via her autobiography, we learn of Elleanor Eldridge’s antebellum painting and whitewashing business in New England.

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Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine

Teaching American History

The city council ordered her arrest for failing to provide detailed information about the NAACP branch’s membership and finances. Southern Oral History Program Collection, October 11, 1976. She and her husband had to hire armed guards to protect their home. Bibliography Bates, Daisy. The Long Shadow of Little Rock. New York: D.

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

Amid bans on teaching Black history and calculated attempts at falsifying history, we all need a recalibration in the importance of telling full stories about America’s past and present. Oral history has preserved Black history, and sharing these stories across generations will preserve truths and offer a blueprint for the future.

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