In February, I proposed that history education in the middle childhood years should begin with good fiction and non-fiction books for children. College survey courses in American history at Wright State University are populated first by students in education, followed by history majors and a sprinkling of history enthusiasts from other departments. Many of the [...]
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Midwest Oral History Group
Posted in Ohio, Ohio Humanities Council, oral history, tagged history, Midwest Oral History Group, oral history, oral history association on April 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Are you using or doing oral history in the Midwest? There are several regional oral history organizations but there hasn’t been one for the Midwest recently:
Michigan Oral History Association
New England Association for Oral History
Northwest Oral History Association
OHMAR – Oral History Mid-Atlantic Region
Southwest Oral History Association
Texas Oral History Association
Troy Reeves at [...]
Ohio Humanities Council Summer Institutes
Posted in Education, Ohio Humanities Council, history, oral history, tagged Education, history, Ohio Humanities Council, summer institute, teacher institute on April 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Each summer, the Ohio Humanities Council sponsors The Oral History Training Institute for historical organizations, teachers, and others interested in learning the skills to develop an oral history project. Learn more about oral history June 3-5 at Kenyon College.
The Ohio Humanities supports summer teachers institutes across the state. For more information, see K-12 Programs [...]
Historical scholarship: “it wasn’t always so”
Posted in history, scholarship, tagged Center for History and New Media, Found History, history, scholarship, Tom Scheinfeldt on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In an essay, “Sunset for Ideology, Sunrise for Methodology?” Tom Scheinfeldt suggests that the field of history is seeing a shift from a century of theoretical questions framed in monographs to a greater emphasis on methodology, collaboration, and organization. Over a century ago, he notes that bibliography was central to the academic enterprise in [...]
