HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit T. Mills Kelly encourages his students to deceive thousands of people on the Web. This has angered many, but the experiment helps reveal the shifting nature of the truth on the Internet. Source: Yoni Appelbaum, [...]
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History Buzz February 20, 2012: Presidents’ Day: Take the presidential history quiz!
HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP Presidents’ Day: The quiz Source: WaPo, 2-20-12 It’s Presidents’ Day Monday, but whom the holiday is meant to honor depends on whom you ask. Even the placement of the apostrophe is open to question!… The most recent results of students’ performance on civics exams on [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on February 20, 2012
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History Buzz February 15, 2012: Carla L. Peterson: Answers About Black History in 19th-Century New York, Part 1
HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP Answers About Black History in 19th-Century New York, Part 1 Taking Questions Source: NYT, 2-15-12 The author of “Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City,” answers readers’ questions. The Author’s Blog » Read the Original Post » Here are [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on February 15, 2012
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History Buzz February 8, 2012: Black History Month Facts 2012
HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP Black History Month Facts 2012 Source: Newsmax.com, 2-8-12 Black History Month, occurring each February, is a month dedicated to celebrating and remembering the history, accomplishments, and triumphs of black American culture, is in full swing. According to Biography.com, Dr. Carter G. Woodson and Rev. Jesse [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on February 8, 2012
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History Q&A: How Many Hurricanes Have Hit New England Before Hurricane Irene?
HISTORY Q&A: By Bonnie K. Goodman Ms. Goodman is the Editor of History Musings. She has a BA in History & Art History & a Masters in Library and Information Studies from McGill University, and has done graduate work in history at Concordia University. HISTORY Q&A HISTORY NEWS: NEW ENGLAND HURRICANES IN HISTORY SUFFOLK [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on August 27, 2011
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Ron Nief and Tom McBride: Beloit College’s The Mindset List — Born in 1993, Class of 2015
HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY FEATURES Ron Nief and Tom McBride: The Mindset List Source: Beloit College Mindset List The Mindset List was created at Beloit College in 1998 to reflect the world view of entering first year students. It started with the members of the class of 2002, born in 1980. What started as a witty [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on August 23, 2011
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History Buzz August 22, 2011: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Memorial Opens in Washington’s National Mall
HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP By Bonnie K. Goodman Ms. Goodman is the Editor of History Musings. She has a BA in History & Art History & a Masters in Library and Information Studies from McGill University, and has done graduate work in history at Concordia University. HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP Philip Scott Andrews/The [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on August 22, 2011
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Josh Howard: North Carolina Civil War history might need a rewrite
HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP Source: NC News & Observer, 7-22-11 Josh Howard’s work as a research historian at N.C. Archives and History debunks two cherished myths about the Civil War. For more than a century, North Carolina clung to a pair of Civil War distinctions thought sacred: It sent the first Confederate killed in [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on July 22, 2011
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Harvard training college teachers on black history
HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP Source: AP, WSJ, 7-17-11 Every semester, Cheryl Carpenter tries to think of new ways to introduce Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God” to her college students. An English instructor at Alabama A&M, a historically black college in Normal, Ala., Carpenter said students sometimes are confused about the setting [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on July 17, 2011
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David McCullough: Textbooks “so politically correct as to be comic”
HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP Source: WSJ, 6-18-11 ‘We’re raising young people who are, by and large, historically illiterate,” David McCullough tells me on a recent afternoon in a quiet meeting room at the Boston Public Library. Having lectured at more than 100 colleges and universities over the past 25 years, he says, “I know [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on June 18, 2011
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