National Humanities Center: Spring 2012 Development Seminars
The National Humanities Center has released its Spring 2012 schedule for online professional development seminars for History and Literature Teachers. Spring offerings include The Role of the Medical Care in the Civil War; Art and the New Negro; Teaching Catcher in the Rye; Nation, Race, and Genocide in the 20th Century, Using Art in History and Literature Classes, and Spain and its North American Empire in the Eighteenth Century.
For more information visit: http://americainclass.org/seminars/
Global Horizons Workshops
The upcoming Global Horizons workshop will be titled: Using Primary Resources to Teach about China in the 20th Century. This workshop aims at modeling educational pedagogy to develop creative thinking about issues in world history by addressing diverse aspects of China’s quest for modernity during the mid- 20th century. The first presentation will highlight the use of multiple primary sources to show the major changes in attitudes about women’s social roles and education in mid-twentieth century China. The second presentation will focus on nationalism and patriotism during the World War II period in Korea, China and Japan. The material will not only highlight the diversity of perspectives between nations but also multiple perspectives within each nation. The final presentation will adopt a comparative approach to explore the promotion of nationalist sentiments in Chinese and U.S. political posters during and after World War II. The presenters will show how this approach has helped develop critical thinking skills in their students through the use of primary sources in their classrooms. Thus by challenging what students think they know, and then complicating the issues, a strong potential for more understanding is created. This workshop will be held on December 3, 2011 from 9am to 3pm at 275 Hills South, UMASS Amherst. To register and for more information call (413) 545-4178 or (413) 545-0465 or email: global@educ.umass.edu
Who's Who and What's What in the Books of Dr. Seuss
In 2000, this compilation of "who's who & what's what" in the books of Dr. Seuss was created by Edward Connery Lathem and recently, the Dartmouth Digital Library Initiatives digitized this unique guide through the world of Dr. Suess. The digital user interface is simple and user-friendly. Visitors can select certain pages to share with friends via email, search for certain terms (like "Lorax") and also create a full-screen view for closer scrutiny.
Please visit the website at: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/digital/collections/ocm45408191/
Teaching With Primary Sources
The National Humanities Center is proud to offer five FREE online professional development for teachers in the TPS Eastern Region (Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia).
These live, interactive seminars are led by distinguished scholars and focus on the close reading of primary resources from the Library of Congress's American Memory Timeline and the Center's America in Class® Primary Sources. The seminars are built around a key question that will guide participants through these rich collections of primary resources and enable participants to organize coherent lessons with them. A few of the seminars included are For Union and Freedom: African Americans in the Civil War and Opportunity Cost: The Perils and Profits of Assimilation
The seminars are live from 7pm to 8:30pm E.T. For more information visit: http://americainclass.org/seminars/tps/
The Real Rosie the Riveter Project
The iconic image of Rosie Riveter is known to many Americans through the tremendously popular image that has been reproduced on posters, tablecloths, and numerous other items. But what about the real Rosie Riveters? There were hundreds of thousands of women who worked in American defense plants during WWII, and their real stories are fascinating. Working along with the Tamiment Library at New York University, the Spargel Productions company has endeavored to interview many of these women. This website features some of those women as they talk about their experiences in shipyards, electrical companies, and tank assembly lines.
Visit the website at http://dlib.nyu.edu/rosie/
