Ethnographic Collections in the Classroom

by | Sep 16, 2023

Introduction: Archives and the Culturally Responsive Classroom Instructors of Language Arts, History, and Social Studies in the United States are tasked with helping their pupils compare perspectives across time and space. They must teach students how to locate and...

Stories for Change

by | Sep 15, 2022

Death has been on my mind. Minding the end times reverberates at many scales—global, personal, physical, spiritual. Solstice pulled me out among the winter whispery grasses and low trees on my land. Science predicts the devastation of the two-needle piñon, the...

“Il repose ici”

by | Sep 15, 2022

The Great October Storm of 1893, despite remaining one of the largest natural disasters in the U.S. to date, was lost to history for nearly 100 years. It remained untold in hurricane treatises and in general literature and lingered only in the colloquial memory of...

The Thomas Indian School

by | Sep 14, 2022

       This exhibition, “It’s about community, told by community, and supported by community.” —Hayden Haynes     This photo essay by Hayden Haynes is part of the culmination of a community looking at the effects and aftereffects of one Indian...

Who Gets (to be) Remembered in Life

by | Sep 14, 2022

  I began teaching secondary world history in the United States in the early 2000s after nearly two years of teaching and studying in Wuhan, China. I have no recollection of learning about China/East Asia prior to moving to Wuhan, despite the advantage of being...