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  • Invoking history in voter registration law

    […] in the late nineteenth century (p. 128). Relying primarily on the expert testimony of Clemson University historian O. Vernon Burton, Ramos discusses the history of all-white primaries, literacy tests, and poll taxes. She also examines Texas politicians’ more recent efforts to require voters to re-register annually, disenfranchise African American students at Prairie View A&M, […]

  • Mother of invention; or, what my sons taught me about historical reenacting

    […] help us convey the texture of the past, as well as the excitement of studying it, to our students. As Conn suggests, there is a kind of literacy associated with objects. In our increasingly digital age, it is well worth our time to ask our students to learn from the material realm. As a […]

  • Getting started in the digital humanities: a resource guide

    […] Research Hub, Nebraska’s Center for Digital Research in Humanities, and IU’s Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities Center make it possible and accessible to self-teach digital method literacy. This accessibility also means that scholars who have avoided learning digital methods no longer have an excuse not to learn—something that I am guilty of as […]

  • Revealing slavery’s legacy at a public university in the South (Part 2)

    […] students sometimes abused slaves and received faculty reprimands. Students also contributed to slavery ideology as they argued pertinent questions of the day, such as emancipation or slave literacy, in debating societies. As adults, at least 24 former students signed the 1860-61 South Carolina Ordinance of Secession to protect the slave society. These men included […]

  • Barrier-free access to the ghosts of Gallaudet

    […] the university’s bilingual mission and our course SLOs. ASL is a part of our mission and identity and is part of the foundation for lifelong learning and literacy. After the House One investigation, my students and I held a debriefing about the event. We discussed specific scenarios that influenced the night. I learned that […]

  • Podcasts and public history

    […] at Brown University’s John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage. He is the co-creator (with Amelia Golcheski) of Public Work, a public humanities podcast. In addition to podcasting and digital public humanities, Jim is interested in digital pedagogy, speculative and creative uses of digital archival materials, data literacy, and digital storytelling. Jim is on Twitter @JimMc_Grath.

  • Digital history for undergraduates….without the coding

    […] today it occupies more than half of the semester. Digital history presents several obstacles for introductory-level students, though.  For all the claims about the millennial generation’s tech literacy, they are more adept as consumers than creators.  This is perhaps even more true at institutions like my own – a mid-size state university with a […]

  • Agriculture and public history: A working group

    […] and Public History” working group at the 2018 NCPH annual meeting will: Devise strategies that can make historic sites and public history projects a “go-to” source to increase agricultural literacy (delivering content about local food systems as well as global commodity chains of food, fuel, and fiber). Adopt a humanist perspective and develop humanities-based strategies to […]

  • Impacts and outcomes (part two): Tools to use

    […] onto paper. Goals of this sort that I have worked toward in the past have included empowering youth, teaching specific content, training individuals in hard skills, increasing literacy, bridging communities, encouraging healthy lifestyles, building teamwork, increasing communication skills, and more. Once my list of goals is complete, I put together a set of tools […]

  • History Relevance in Canada

    […] demonstrate history’s relevance and the power of teaching historical thinking skills. The Historical Thinking Project is a national Canadian effort to give attention to promoting critical historical literacy in the twenty-first century at learning venues across Canada. As Stephanie Rowe said in her opening and closing remarks for the Forum, “we hope this is […]