History eNews from Emerging America - July 21, 2016

HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 3, Issue 20 for July 21, 2016

News:

• “Library Fends Off DDoS Attack” - July 17-20, hackers attacked LoC.Gov. Things are back to normal, but if you find an area that is still down, report it at: website comment form. LoC.Gov will be down July 29-31.

• Have you used congress.gov? Please help improve it by answering this online survey.

• Leventhal Map Center at Boston Public Library has VERY quick survey re online resources.

• California State Board of Ed approves new state History & Social Studies Standards. CHSSP.

• Senate confirms Baltimore’s Carla Hayden as 14th Librarian of Congress.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS

• September 20 - Start of Feinberg Family Lecture Series: The U.S. in the Age of Mass Incarceration. Sponsored by UMass Department of History & CES-Emerging America.

• Oct. 29 - Northampton - First to Fight: American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) - Spanish and English. (Tentative date.)

• November 8 - Teaching with Primary Sources - Intro workshop.

RESOURCES @ THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - http://LoC.Gov/teachers

• Papers of Martin Van Buren now available online from Library of Congress.

Library of Congress Teacher Blog

• Interview with Catalina Gomez, Reference Librarian, Hispanic Reading Room. Post.

• Interview with James Wintle, Reference Librarian, Performing Arts Reading Room. Post.

• Interview with Barbara Bair, Historian in the Manuscript Division. Post.

OTHER RECOMMENDED EVENTS and RESOURCES

• July 24, 9am-3pm - Indian Motorcycles at Springfield Museums. Program Calendar.

• July 25-30 - Western Mass Writing Project & Holocaust Education Network Institute. UMass Amherst. Free. Field trips, interactive.

• July 30, 2pm. Historic Northampton. Michael Thurston: The Devil’s Juggles: Witchcraft Accusations in 17th-Century New England.

• Boston Public Library Leventhal Map Center:

  • August 1-3 - Migration, Immigration and Refugees

  • August 4-5 - Whaling in 19th Century Massachusetts

• Aug. 10, 7pm David Ruggles Center, Florence, MA. “A New History of Abolition.” Manisha Sinha.

• Sept. 8. 12:15pm. The Art of Illustrated Maps. John Roman. Springfield Museums.

• Oct 22, 8:30am-12pm - 80th Anniversary of the M-1 “Garand” Rifle - Program.

• Wednesday, Oct. 26 - Marlborough - Mass Council for the Social Studies - Fall Conference. Call for proposals.

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