[Ohiogift] National History Club News

[Art Snyder]

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| National History Club News |
| a partner of HISTORY® | January 2020 |

  
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Before and After     The compelling, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal --- some of whom learned the truth from Lisa Wingate's bestselling novel Before We Were Yours and were reunited with birth family members as a result of its wide reach.  From the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the wish lists of eager parents --- hiding the fact that many weren't orphans at all, but stolen sons and daughters of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity wards that their babies had died.   The publication of Lisa Wingate's novel Before We Were Yours brought new awareness of Tann's lucrative career in child trafficking. Adoptees who knew little about their pasts gained insight into the startling facts behind their family histories. Encouraged by their contact with Wingate and award-winning journalist Judy Christie, many determined Tann survivors set out to trace their roots and find their birth families.   Before and After includes moving and sometimes shocking accounts of the ways in which adoptees were separated from their first families. In a poignant culmination of art meeting life, many of the long-silent victims of the tragically corrupt system return to Memphis with the authors to reclaim their stories at a Tennessee Children's Home Society reunion . . . with extraordinary results.  Purchase the book today!   |

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          NHC Sponsors     
   -  American Association for State and Local History 
   -  American Civil War Museum 
   -  American Historical Association 
   -  Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles 
   -  George Washington's Mount Vernon 
   -  Gilder Lehrman Institute 
   -  HISTORY 
   -  History 500 
   -  Laurel Hill Cemetery 
   -  National Council for History Education 
   -  National Vietnam War Museum 
   -  National World War I Museum 
   -  National World War II Museum 
   -  Omohundro Institute 
   -  Organization of American Historians 
   -  Society of Architectural Historians 
   -  The History List 
   -  The Concord Review 
   -  Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund 
   -  Woodrom Wilson Presidential Library and Museum 
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| History Camp |
|   |     History Camp brings together people from all walks of life who have a passion for history. They come to share what they've learned and to learn from others. Sessions cover a wide variety of topics and historical periods, and depending on the size of the History Camp, you'll have from three to eight or more sessions to choose from in each time slot.   Here's the way one person described it: "I've been to dozens of official academic conferences with big names where all submissions are thoroughly vetted by panels of experts and none of those conferences were as fun and informative as History Camp. It really was the best set of speakers I've seen at a conference: relaxed and informed and direct."   In 2020, History Camps will take place in Boston, Holyoke, MA, Philadelphia, Fairfax, VA, Des Moines, and Denver. They're always on a Saturday so as many people as possible can come.   Learn more about History Camp, including how you and your students can be a part of it, either individually or as a group, at HistoryCamp.org.   History Camp is a project of the non-profit organization The Pursuit of History.    |
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| Loyola University Maryland |
|   |     Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit, Catholic institution located in Baltimore, Maryland. Loyola University is committed to providing a liberal arts education which will help students discover their place in the world.   With a 12:1 faculty to student ratio, Loyola seeks to prepare students for lives of meaningful professional service and leadership. Students are challenged to examine their own values, attitudes and beliefs. The history department at Loyola focuses on patterns and interpretations of History and emphasizes the skills of research, analysis, argument and writing.    |
|   | Come vist the Loyola History Department Today! |
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| The University at Buffalo |
|   |     The University at Buffalo History Department is committed to providing a rigorous, top quality education for the next generation of scholars. Whether they end up pursuing careers in academia, public history, secondary education, government and cultural organizations, publishing, or other fields, we prepare our students with the research, analytical, and writing skills necessary for today's market.   Students read deeply in their fields while learning to create new knowledge by asking their own questions about the past, engaging in primary research, analyzing their findings, and communicating their conclusions artfully and persuasively.    |
|   | Explore the Buffalo History Department! |
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|  Lessons of Leadership |
|   |     Elected officials have always been called upon to make critically important decisions, ones that can determine the fate of their towns, cities, states and nations. With the next election in the not-so-distant future, the NHC and The HBE Foundation are pleased to present the 7th annual "Lessons of Leadership" contest, with a focus on political courage.We invite middle and high school students from any school in the United States to select an elected official and describe how that person risked his or her career by making a decision that was at odds with public opinion. All entries must be received by April 10, 2020. $5,000 in cash prizes (total) for the top seven submissions!    |
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