Michelle Zupan created discussion Mount St. Helens
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Created Wednesday, October 09 2024, 15:37 UTC
Consortium Partner Local Learning have developed a learning packet on Mount St. Helens using oral histories from the Washington State Parks. It is designed for Museum Educators, but would be wonderful in the classroom too.
The packet includes primary sources, oral histories, worksheets, and graphic organizers.
3 - 5 6 - 8 9 - 12 13+ Social Studies/History Science volcano Washington Mount St. Helens museum
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Cheryl Davis commented on discussion Amache, Colorado Becomes America's Newest National Historic Site
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Created Wednesday, May 22 2024, 21:23 UTC
Amache, Colorado Becomes America's Newest National Historic Site
If the name "Amache" does not ring a bell to you, then you are not alone. It was a Japanese Interment Camp located near Granada, Colorado. People with the last names of Saito, Yasuda, and Hamamoto were suddenly rounded up in the weeks following the attack on Pearl Harbor and forced into camps in the most rural areas of the US -- all because they had Japanese ancestry.
Amache officially became America's newest National Historic Site. It will be preserved in perpetuity. The video linked here has a moving conversation with a woman who was a small child incarcerated at Amache. Many of the people who survived Amache moved into farming communities in eastern Colorado. Brighton has a number of Japanese-American families who had been at the camp.
https://www.loc.gov/item/2015632197/
The National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places is an excellent way to use our largest primary sources in new and creative ways. The NPS Website has an entire section on Japanese-American Incarceration.
Using the Project Zero True for Who Inquiry Strategy can help your students work through internment camp collections and oral histories.
The Ninomiya Family in their barracks at Amache
https://www.loc.gov/item/2023632674/
Japanese-American Veterans Association -- Michael Honda oral history collection
Granada Pioneer Japanese Language Newspaper
University of Denver Amache Reunion, 1998, Interviews
Densho Digital Repository for Japanese Internment Camp Primary Sources (search the name of the Internment Camp you are looking for)
3 - 5 6 - 8 9 - 12 13+ Social Studies/History Japanese Japanese-American Internment Internment Camp Teaching with Historic Places Colorado
Kile Clabaugh commented on discussion Amache, Colorado Becomes America's Newest National Historic Site
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Created Tuesday, May 21 2024, 15:23 UTC
I heard this on NPR yesterday and I was so happy it was finally made a historic site! Long overdue!
Colorado Experience, Rocky Mountain PBS' award winning documentary series, has a fantastic episode documenting the Amache/Grenada Internment camp.
Amache, Colorado Becomes America's Newest National Historic Site
If the name "Amache" does not ring a bell to you, then you are not alone. It was a Japanese Interment Camp located near Granada, Colorado. People with the last names of Saito, Yasuda, and Hamamoto were suddenly rounded up in the weeks following the attack on Pearl Harbor and forced into camps in the most rural areas of the US -- all because they had Japanese ancestry.
Amache officially became America's newest National Historic Site. It will be preserved in perpetuity. The video linked here has a moving conversation with a woman who was a small child incarcerated at Amache. Many of the people who survived Amache moved into farming communities in eastern Colorado. Brighton has a number of Japanese-American families who had been at the camp.
https://www.loc.gov/item/2015632197/
The National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places is an excellent way to use our largest primary sources in new and creative ways. The NPS Website has an entire section on Japanese-American Incarceration.
Using the Project Zero True for Who Inquiry Strategy can help your students work through internment camp collections and oral histories.
The Ninomiya Family in their barracks at Amache
https://www.loc.gov/item/2023632674/
Japanese-American Veterans Association -- Michael Honda oral history collection
Granada Pioneer Japanese Language Newspaper
University of Denver Amache Reunion, 1998, Interviews
Densho Digital Repository for Japanese Internment Camp Primary Sources (search the name of the Internment Camp you are looking for)
3 - 5 6 - 8 9 - 12 13+ Social Studies/History Japanese Japanese-American Internment Internment Camp Teaching with Historic Places Colorado
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Created Tuesday, May 21 2024, 01:55 UTC
If the name "Amache" does not ring a bell to you, then you are not alone. It was a Japanese Interment Camp located near Granada, Colorado. People with the last names of Saito, Yasuda, and Hamamoto were suddenly rounded up in the weeks following the attack on Pearl Harbor and forced into camps in the most rural areas of the US -- all because they had Japanese ancestry.
Amache officially became America's newest National Historic Site. It will be preserved in perpetuity. The video linked here has a moving conversation with a woman who was a small child incarcerated at Amache. Many of the people who survived Amache moved into farming communities in eastern Colorado. Brighton has a number of Japanese-American families who had been at the camp.
https://www.loc.gov/item/2015632197/
The National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places is an excellent way to use our largest primary sources in new and creative ways. The NPS Website has an entire section on Japanese-American Incarceration.
Using the Project Zero True for Who Inquiry Strategy can help your students work through internment camp collections and oral histories.
The Ninomiya Family in their barracks at Amache
https://www.loc.gov/item/2023632674/
Japanese-American Veterans Association -- Michael Honda oral history collection
Granada Pioneer Japanese Language Newspaper
University of Denver Amache Reunion, 1998, Interviews
Densho Digital Repository for Japanese Internment Camp Primary Sources (search the name of the Internment Camp you are looking for)
3 - 5 6 - 8 9 - 12 13+ Social Studies/History Japanese Japanese-American Internment Internment Camp Teaching with Historic Places Colorado
Created Sunday, April 14 2024, 18:59 UTC
World renowned artist, Faith Ringgold, has passed, leaving behind a powerful legacy of art. She was New York's own, and so many of the article below will come from New York Museums, and how her art had an impact. I have included the lessons from the various art institutions with an emphasis on The New York Times Learning Network, which has both a local and national perspective on Ringgold's considerable body of work.
The New York Times Learning Network has origins to MoMA's original Visual Thinking Curriculum (VTC) which has undergone a number of incarnations. I had the privilege of helping to launch the initial VTC so the questioning techniques and strategies are those I always enjoyed.
NYTimes: Faith Ringgold Dies at 93; Wove Black Life Into Quilts and Children’s Books
NYT Up Close: Faith Ringgold: 'Didn't Want People to Be Able to Look, and Look Away'
NYT – T Magazine feature article : – Why Faith Ringgold Makes Sure Her Pieces Bear Her Signature
NYT Art and Design: Faith Ringgold’s Path of Maximum Resistance
Guggenheim Museum: Artist Faith Ringgold Discusses "Tar Beach" on "Craft in America" - May 9, 2012
On the television series Craft in America, pioneering artist Faith Ringgold is interviewed at the Guggenheim about her life, her process, and her story …
The Guggenheim Museum: Ashley James on Faith Ringgold’s “Tar Beach”
Brooklyn Museum: Faith Ringgold
The Guardian: Art - Faith Ringgold: 'I'm not going to see riots and not paint them'
Faith Ringgold Chronology (from her site)
Faith Ringgold, quilt and visual artist, dies at 93 : NPR
Lesson Plans, Faith Ringgold
FREE Faith Ringgold Story Quilts, Grades 2-4 — VISIONARY ART COLLECTIVE
Faith Ringold matt museum lesson plans - Visionary Art Collective
Virtual Views: Faith Ringgold | MoMA
Five Photography Assignments That Invite You to Look Closely at the World
Pre K - 2 3 - 5 6 - 8 9 - 12 13+ Art/Music English/Language Arts Social Studies/History Faith Ringgold, Artist
The New York Times Learning Netowork MoMA Guggenheim Museum
Created Sunday, March 17 2024, 15:46 UTC
Éirinn go Brách
Tyler Anbinder, professor emeritus at George Washington University, has a new book out entirely rooted in wonderful primary source materials. In Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York, the myth of the poverty-stricken Irish immigrant being a drain on American society is dispelled all because of a treasure trove of bank records. The records of the Emigrant Savings Bank, housed at the NY Public Library, show that even day laborers were averaging $150 in their savings accounts -- equivalent to about $6000 today!
How can primary sources be used to disprove other stereotypes?
Why is this set of data significant to American history?
What other primary sources can be combined with this bank data to get a clearer picture of the lives of Irish immigrants to America?
How are the reactions to the 19th century mass emigration of Irish to America similar to events happening today?
Irish Americans Free to Use and Reuse
Herald of the Times, and Rhode Islander, January 18, 1847 -- Famine!
The Irish Republic Newspaper, 1867-68, Chicago
Irish Colonists in New York, 1906
Where the blame lies, 1891 (anti-immigration cartoon)
Immigration Challenges for New Americans
Irish-Catholic Immigration to America
Immigrant Laborers in the Early 20th century, audio recording.
Irish Contributions to the American Culture
The Immigrant Experience: Down the Rabbit Hole
Only a small portion of the Emigrant Savings Bank Records have been digitized, but they are fascinating! The bank records span from 1841 through 1923.
Immigration: The Irish, New York, PBS Media
EPIC: The Irish Immigration Museum
Irish-American Heritage Museum
When America Despised the Irish: The 19th Century Refugee Crisis
3 - 5 6 - 8 9 - 12 13+ Social Studies/History museum Irish
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Mary Johnson replied to a comment on discussion The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation
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Created Tuesday, February 20 2024, 16:46 UTC
Janice Warju
, thanks for that expert set on Hay. I edited the hay rake item in the album to reference the set in the Teaching Notes. I didn't use your name because I plan to share the album outside the TPS Teachers Network (with the COPY SHAREABLE URL feature), and we always try to protect the privacy of our members. I did, however, snag some information from your profile!
Hi, Mary. I will not be able to attend the conference, but it is possible our Curator of Agriculture and the Environment may be, Dr. Debra Reid.
I saw your album and it reminded me that we have an expert set on Hay: https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/expert-sets/101627
and over 200 related Hay artifacts. :)
Looking forward to seeing reports from the conference!
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Michelle Zupan! I do like the National Park Service’s teaching material. So good that Amache is now a National Historic Site!
The oral histories and stories about the incarceration of the West Coast Japanese Americans are so important to learn about. This film in the Internet Archives certainly made me think about the decision making process and how nations can move in very undesirable directions based on racism. I posted about it here: AAPI Heritage Month Lesson idea - Correcting Media Misinformation