[Ohiogift] National History Club News - March 2016
Art Snyder
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Mon Mar 28 12:53:14 EDT 2016
National History Club News a partner of HISTORY® March 2016
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dead Wake, The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, by Erik Larson
Villanova University
Echoes From the Wall Curriculum Set on the Vietnam Era ---What does Vietnam mean in the 21st century? Vietnam has come to signify many different things to different people --- a process of social upheaval; a military conflict built on questionable grounds; a far-off land that returns soldiers forever changed by their experiences. The Vietnam war and era was one of the most divisive times in American history --- but do students know why? Echoes From The Wall is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund's comprehensive high-school level curriculum on the Vietnam war and era. This FREE curriculum comes complete with background readings, in-class and extension activities tied to national learning standards, and lecture presentations incorporating primary source audio and video that can be presented in the classroom.
* Your students could win a trip to Washington DC by participating in VVMF's Student Video Contest! *
How did Vietnam change our country? Submissions of short videos (5 minutes or less) will be accepted by students in grades 4-12, addressing the topic of describing what important social, political, or other changes were brought about through the United States' participation in the Vietnam War. Videos will be judged by a panel of history experts, and then three finalists will be put to a final vote on social media. The grand prize winner will win a trip to Washington, DC (with guardian) to participate in the Memorial Day ceremony at the Vietnam Memorial on the National Mall. All three finalists will have their videos featured on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund website and on social media in the month of May, with exposure to over 300,000 followers.
Find out more information about the Contest! Read the Winter NHC Newsletter!
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
History at MIT brings together outstanding scholarship, teaching, and public engagement. We teach a wide array of undergraduate subjects, help to train a talented cohort of graduate students in the History, Anthropology and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS) doctoral program, publish prize-winning monographs and essays that are grounded in deep archival research and employ cutting-edge methodologies, and reach out to public audiences around the world. History especially seeks to give MIT students a full educational experience that will prepare them to be active members of their local communities and an increasingly global society. In all of these activities we are committed to carrying on the tradition of excellence that has made MIT an important engine of knowledge production and distribution in the humanities and social sciences.
Historians at MIT do work at the cutting edge of their fields. We are specialists in various times and places, as well as pioneers in the increasingly important comparative studies of past societies and cultures. We have taken leadership roles in developing new ways of analyzing the past. Whether studying ancient Rome or modern America, we bring our individual expertise to bear on "big questions" of social analysis: citizenship and politics in a changing world; environment and economy; culture and identity; and the measurement of social welfare.
Visit the History Department!
Dead Wake, The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, by Erik Larson
Now in Paperback
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the disaster.
"With a narrative as smooth as the titular passenger liner, Larson delivers a riveting account of one of the most tragic events of WWI. . . . A blunt reminder that war is, at its most basic, a matter of life and death." - Publishers Weekly
"Once again, Larson transforms a complex event into a thrilling human interest story. This suspenseful account will entice readers of military and maritime history along with lovers of popular history." - Library Journal
Broadway | Trade Paperback | 978-0-307-40887-7 | 480pp. | $17.00/$23.00 Can.
E-book: 978-0-553-44675-3 | $11.99/$14.99 Can. * Also available from Random House Audio
Other Titles by Erik Larson
Villanova University
Villanova University's History Department offers undergraduate majors and minors in History (and in Art History). The Department recently revised its curriculum to provide more hands-on primary research opportunities for its majors. And it expanded history majors' access to study abroad programs and internship opportunities in the Philadelphia region, which boasts dozens of museums, archives, and public history sites. With its emphasis on research, writing, and critical thinking skill development, the major prepares students for a range of careers and for advanced degrees in law, business, and history.
The Department's award-winning faculty teaches a wide range of topical courses, from the Ancient to the Modern; courses include Soccer and Globalization, Robin Hood: Man or Myth, East Asian Capitalism, History of Disease, Women of the Ancient World, Gender and Work, From Stalin to Putin, Global Environmental History, U.S. Foreign Relations, and many others.
In their junior year, history majors take a junior research seminar, which introduces students to research methods, sources, and historiography, and enhances their abilities to critique historical arguments and to develop their own. The department offers seminars on topics such as "Twentieth-Century Military History," "American Music and History," and "Artifacts and History."
The capstone experience for majors, the Seminar in Historical Methodology, lets students practice history themselves by conducting independent research and writing a paper of 20-25 pages. Each student chooses his or her own topic, develops a hypothesis or set of questions, identifies and tracks down relevant primary source materials, and writes a work of scholarship that presents the research findings and conclusions. Some students use the riches of local archives such as the Temple University Urban Archive, while others have conducted research in the National Archives in Washington or in the Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston. Students collaborate with each other by discussing their progress and reading drafts of the thesis as it evolves from outline to the final, polished product.
Find out more about the Department!
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