This month, Common-place is delighted to republish a long lost chapter from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s serialized temperance novel, Sowing and Reaping (1876).
With a fine (and undergraduate-friendly) introduction by literary historian Eric Gardner, who discovered the chapter in the American Antiquarian Society’s serials collection, this is a must read for anyone interested in African American history and letters.
Now that we’ve whetted your appetite for nineteenth-century literary culture, you might want to follow Jeffery D. Groves in his quest to build an exact replica of Isaiah Thomas’s storied printing press, no power tools allowed.
And before you dutifully turn your clocks back this weekend, take a look at Alexis McCrossen’s fascinating account of a century of timekeeping in Philadelphia.
These stories, and more, can be found here.
Friday, November 2, 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Inuit Studies Online Conference: October 25-27
Please join us for the Inuit Studies Online Conference from October 25 - 27.
We have three full days of engaging sessions planned with experts from around the world. The sessions will cover a broad spectrum of topics, including climate change and indigenous people; international cooperation in the Arctic; roles of Museums and museum collections in preserving Inuit languages, heritage, and culture; and governmental programs.
We have three full days of engaging sessions planned with experts from around the world. The sessions will cover a broad spectrum of topics, including climate change and indigenous people; international cooperation in the Arctic; roles of Museums and museum collections in preserving Inuit languages, heritage, and culture; and governmental programs.
The conference is designed for teachers, students and museum professionals and is available at no cost. Register today to take part in this important event.
Friday, October 19, 2012
The biggest challenge facing the great teachers and communicators of history...
"The biggest challenge facing the great teachers and communicators of history is to teach why history matters. How to ignite the first spark, which lights up one source of history and then another, connecting and linking and writing bright words across the dark face of the present. There's no phrase I can come up that will encapsulate in a winning sound-bite why history matters. We know that history matters, we know that it is thrilling, absorbing, fascinating, delightful and infuriating, that it is life."
Stephen Fry, Making History
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Free Electronic Field Trips by Colonial Williamsburg for Hawaii Teachers!
One of our mainland partner organizations is Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. Earlier this morning I was contacted by the manager of Education Sales K-12, Dale Van Eck.
He wrote, "I could really use some help! I have 16 $500 scholarships for Electronic Field Trips to award to Hawaiian public elementary and middle schools. Could you use your network to get the word out?"
Go to this link and learn more about these free field trips. Do you know any Hawaii public elementary and middle school teachers? If so then please forward this offer to their email boxes.
Funding for Colonial Williamsburg’s Electronic Field Trips is available
now! Thanks to a generous Colonial Williamsburg donor, up to 30 Hawaiian
public elementary schools are eligible to receive the 2012-2013 Electronic
Field Trip series at no charge (a $500 value per school). This Emmy award-winning
series consists of 7 live broadcasts that can be streamed via the Web. Each
Electronic Field Trip and its companion resources are aligned to your state
standards and integrate reading/literacy, civics, history, and technology
standards. The series is targeted to grades 4-8. Since the subscription
is for the entire school building, only one person for each school will
need to subscribe. Here’s how to find out more information and submit
your subscription:
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
History Education Hawaii, Inc., Welcomes Jonathan Nosaka
History Education Hawaii, Inc., is pleased to announce that Jonathan Nosaka has
been named as its treasurer.
Jonathan Nosaka is the founder and president of FELT, or Financial Education & Leadership Training, a 501c3 non-profit organization. He is also an investor in private practice in the areas of real estate and foreign currencies.
Since 2008 Nosaka has been a lecturer at Kapiolani Community College, University of Hawaii. He teaches English as a Second Language; English for Specific Purposes (Business English, Medical English, Hawaiian Culture, et al); and financial literacy classes in adult education. His interest in history and history education is inspired by his father's service in World War II in the famous 100th Battalion 442nd Infantry Regimental Combat Team.
President and co-founder Jeffrey Bingham Mead said that, "Jonathan Nosaka has been a good friend, a gifted and talented colleague whose passion for teaching is contagious and inspirational. We are delighted to have him join our team."
History Education Hawaii, Inc., is the officially recognized ‘Hawaii Council’ of the National Council for History Education. It is a technology-based independent, nonpartisan, not-for-profit corporation serving the history learning community of the state of Hawaii that promotes leadership, study, research, effective, innovative history teaching and learning best practices. It collaborates with educational institutions, facilitates interactive, professional and interactive programs involving history-buffs, history educators and students, teacher-candidates, historians and historic preservationists, foundations, museums as well as the government, military and business communities of Hawaii.
Jonathan Nosaka is the founder and president of FELT, or Financial Education & Leadership Training, a 501c3 non-profit organization. He is also an investor in private practice in the areas of real estate and foreign currencies.
Since 2008 Nosaka has been a lecturer at Kapiolani Community College, University of Hawaii. He teaches English as a Second Language; English for Specific Purposes (Business English, Medical English, Hawaiian Culture, et al); and financial literacy classes in adult education. His interest in history and history education is inspired by his father's service in World War II in the famous 100th Battalion 442nd Infantry Regimental Combat Team.
History Education Hawaii, Inc., is the officially recognized ‘Hawaii Council’ of the National Council for History Education. It is a technology-based independent, nonpartisan, not-for-profit corporation serving the history learning community of the state of Hawaii that promotes leadership, study, research, effective, innovative history teaching and learning best practices. It collaborates with educational institutions, facilitates interactive, professional and interactive programs involving history-buffs, history educators and students, teacher-candidates, historians and historic preservationists, foundations, museums as well as the government, military and business communities of Hawaii.
U.S. Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database
The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (CWSS) is a database
containing information about the men who served in the Union and
Confederate armies during the Civil War. Other information on the site
includes histories of Union and Confederate regiments, links to
descriptions of significant battles, and selected lists of
prisoner-of-war records and cemetery records, which will be amended over
time. The CWSS is a cooperative effort between the National Park
Service and several public and private partners whose goal is to
increase Americans' understanding of this decisive era in American
history by making information about it widely accessible.
From the archives of the Honolulu Star Bulletin:
The African American Civil War Memorial in Washington, D.C., lists names of 209,145 African-American veterans engraved upon plaques. An enormous computer database was created to make the list. Called the "Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System," and administered by the National Park Service, the database includes the duty records of all Civil War veterans, white and "colored," and can be accessed here.
Although most such veterans were black, dark-skinned soldiers and sailors from all over the world - including Hawaii - are included in the African-American memorial, as well as the white officers who commanded them, according to memorial officials.
From the archives of the Honolulu Star Bulletin:
The African American Civil War Memorial in Washington, D.C., lists names of 209,145 African-American veterans engraved upon plaques. An enormous computer database was created to make the list. Called the "Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System," and administered by the National Park Service, the database includes the duty records of all Civil War veterans, white and "colored," and can be accessed here.
Although most such veterans were black, dark-skinned soldiers and sailors from all over the world - including Hawaii - are included in the African-American memorial, as well as the white officers who commanded them, according to memorial officials.
12th Annual International Graduate Student Conference on the Asia Pacific Region
12th Annual International Graduate Student Conference on the Asia Pacific Region
Honolulu, Hawai‘i, USA
February 14-16, 2013
The East-West Center invites graduate students from around the world to
submit papers for the 12th Annual International Graduate Student Conference (IGSC) on the Asia Pacific region, taking place in Honolulu,
Hawai‘i, USA from February 14-16, 2013.Honolulu, Hawai‘i, USA
February 14-16, 2013
The Conference will provide an opportunity to share interdisciplinary perspectives formally, through presenting papers and attending other panel presentations, and informally in the warm and encouraging environment of the East-West Center in Hawai‘i. Participation in the 2012 conference had broad representation with 89 graduate students from 43 universities and 25 countries and territories. We look forward to continued representation from across the U.S. and Asia Pacific region in 2013.
We will accept abstracts August 28 - October 15, 2012.
Abstracts up to a maximum of 500 words in length of proposed papers are invited from intending participants at this time. Submissions are encouraged from the array of disciplines focusing on the region.
A limited number of travel grants, generally $100 to $200 (up to a maximum of $500) and awarded on merit, will be available.
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