Emerging America History eNEWS Vol. 3, Issue 32 for November 2, 2016
NEWS
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YOUR INPUT NEEDED by State survey on Civic Learning and Engagement.
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Mark your calendars: ESE 2nd Annual Conference on Civic Learning & Engagement - May 8, 2017 - EM Kennedy Institute in Boston.
WINTER-SPRING EVENTS @ EMERGING AMERICA
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Feinberg Family Lecture Series: The U.S. in the Age of Mass Incarceration. Sponsored by UMass Amherst Dept. of History. No registration required. Do sign in!
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Nov. 10, 4:30pm - “Alien” Incarcerations: Migrants in Detention. Panel
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Nov. 15, 5pm - Historicizing the Carceral State: Race, Sex, and Power in Early America - Jen Manion from Amherst College
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RESOURCES @ THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
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Catalina Neon - Gr. 2-3 poetry program. Juan Felipe Herrera, U.S. Poet Laureate. http://www.read.gov/
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New classroom presentation - Elections - The American Way.
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Recorded Sessions of the 2016 Library of Congress Online Conference
OTHER RECOMMENDED EVENTS and RESOURCES - Statewide & on the Web
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Whole Picture Film Contest - Grades 3-12. Issues-based program in 4 Western MA Counties.
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New from the fabulous Periodic Table of the Presidents! Periodic Table of Presidential Elections.
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American Antiquarian Society - Worcester
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Nov. 3, 7pm - Patricia Crain, author Reading Children - 19th Century Schoolroom Emphemera
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Nov. 15, 7pm - Patrick Rael - “Did Nat Turner Confess?”
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Mass Historical Society - also see Presidential papers of Adams, JQ Adams, & Jefferson
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Nov. 5, 9am - 3:30pm - Teacher Workshop - Election Propaganda from Adams to Roosevelt - $25
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Nov. 16, 6pm - John Adams’s Republic - Richard Alan Ryerson
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Nov. 5, 3pm - Greenfield Museum of Out Industrial Heritage - Gauging the Past/Calibrating the Future
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Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library. http://maps.bpl.org/events:
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Nov. 10, 6pm - Vermeer’s Mania for Maps
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Also see Maps of Boston at the Langham Hotel 250 Franklin Street, and Maps of the New England Coast at the Boston Harbor Hotel 70 Atlantic Ave.
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Dec. 2-4 - National Council for the Social Studies conference - Washington
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Dec. 3, 9am-4pm, Amherst College. Navigating Native Spaces – teaching Native American history, culture, & contemporary issues - for secondary teachers. Apply. 5 Colleges.
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Nov. 19 - Mar. 12 - Salem - Peabody Essex Museum - Shoes: Pleasure and Pain.
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Thru 2017 - Importing Splendor: Luxuries from China, & Celebration in Chinese Art
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Woodrow Wilson HistoryQuest Fellowship’s intensive preparation in game-based learning for U.S. history teachers (gr. 6–12) includes a weeklong summer institute in Princeton, expenses paid. http://www.woodrow.org/
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Echoes and Reflections - Holocaust Studies program online courses.
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Political & Civic Involvement Opportunities for Mass HS & College Students to volunteer on campaigns for state representative running in November's elections. For info www.pacio.info.
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