We were excited to present one of our older C3 IDMs that has been significantly revised at the NCHE 2019 Conference. The conference theme was Exercising Power: Individuals and Institutions. This IDM focuses on two individuals (Harriet Hemenway and Minna Hall) who initiated one of the earliest grassroots movements by starting the Audubon Society in Boston and mobilizing women to boycott the fashion industry use of migratory bird breeding feathers.
There are two reasons that this inquiry is important. For us at TPS Eastern Region, it is important because it documents the vast number of primary sources that have been digitized and added to loc.gov since we first wrote this in 2015. The number of newspaper articles about this movement as well as political cartoons had doubled. (Or perhaps we just got better at searching!)
The second reason that this inquiry is important is that it addresses a political concept, grassroots, that is playing a major role in politics today. The IDM which asks students to analyze past primary source and apply what they learn to the present so they can take informed civic action is a perfect fit.
Check out our IDM inquiry on the Inquiry with Library of Congress Resources C3 Hub and the NCHE 2019 Presentation.
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