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CMHD and our partners at UIC and Loyola invite teachers to apply for "Rethinking the Gilded Age and Progressivisms: Race, Capitalism, and Democracy, 1877 to 1920," a three-week NEH Summer Institute held in Chicago, July 8-28, 2023. Applications are due March 3.
Rethinking the Gilded Age & Progressive Era - An NEH Summer Institute for Teachers
So excited to welcome a National History Day alum and former intern to lead the National Council for History Education!! Congratulations to Jessica!
The National Council for History Education Board of Directors is delighted to welcome Jessica Ellison as NCHEโs new Executive Director, concluding a national search. She will begin her appointment in December 2022.
To see the full announcement, go to:
https://ncheteach.org/files/galleries/ED_Announcement.pdf
On this Thanksgiving weekend, we are thankful for CMHD's teachers and students. We hope to see YOU at our ๐ฉ๐๐ฅ๐ง๐จ๐๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐น๐ผ๐ผ๐๐ฎ with NEIU Libraries on ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ญ๐ณ. The morning research and historical thinking workshops will run from 9:30-11:30 a.m. Research and project coaching slots will be available on a first-come, first-served basis from 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Teachers and students can sign up at:
https://www.cognitoforms.com/ChicagoMetroHistoryDay/registrationvirtualresearchpaloozaneiu121722
๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฆ: ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐ถ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ช๐ค ๐๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐ช๐ญ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ด (๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐ช๐ญ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ด) ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด, ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐จ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐๐ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ข๐ช๐ญ ๐ข๐ค๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด. ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐ช๐ญ ๐ข๐ค๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ด๐ช๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ๐ข๐ณ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด, ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐ช๐ญ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ง ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ข ๐๐๐ ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต.
Sign up for a research coaching session with a NEIU Librarian at:
https://neiulibraries.libguides.com/history/CMHD
Sign up for a thesis/project coaching session with CMHD staff at:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E4DACAA2CA1F5C61-121722
Scheduling a coaching session prior to winter break will help you create a plan for how to use your time to improve your project!
Applications are due November 28 for NHD's Sacrifice for Freedom institute in Hawai'i!
Indigenous history news from our friends at the Newberry Libraryโฆ
Chicago is, and always has been, an Indigenous place. Recognizing this long history, members of the Newberry, Carleton College, the Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative (CAICC), and the Chicago Native community have embarked on a project known as Indigenous Chicago.
The project aims to explore the cityโs Native histories in a public history context, all while centering Indigenous voices, laying bare stories of settler-colonial harm, and gesturing toward Indigenous futures.
Meredith McCoy (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa descent) has been working on the Indigenous Chicago team to plan the curricular materials that will be used to help K-12 teachers teach Native history to their students.
Read more about McCoy's work and involvement with the Indigenous Chicago Project on our blog: https://www.newberry.org/blog/teaching-indigenous-history-an-interview-with-meredith-mccoy
When most students think about careers involving history, they think about becoming a teacher or a professor. Careers in public history (people who work in museums and archives, people who make documentaries, etc.) are another pathway. But how frequently do you hear about the historic trades? Maybe you know someone who would like to work in historic preservation one day?
Analysis shows the need for a larger and better-trained historic trades workforce; 100,000 workers needed within the next decade BALTIMORE (November 15, 2022) โ National workforce development program The Campaign [โฆ]
Speaking of frontiers in history, where are our Mayor Harold Washington researchers? Check out this event at one the countryโs best African American history collections!
Join us November 15 at Woodson Regional Library for a discussion with Dr. Richard Benson and David Stovall, Ph.D., about the contributions of Mayor Harold Washington, as well as the Black Power movementโs political legacy, in Chicago. Register and learn more: https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/636c13b2bb62982f006a860e
๐ท: Harold Washington with Barbara Flynn Currie, Timuel Black, Richard Newhouse, Richard Simpson, undated. (Timuel D. Black, Jr. Papers, Box 189, Photo 8, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, Chicago Public Library)
The Newberryโs collections are now open to high school students. Perhaps a History Day student will use this?
Heads up, Alumni!
Library Seeks Applicants for 2023 Junior Fellows Program The Library of Congress is seeking applicants for its Junior Fellows Program, a summer...
History Day teachers do the coolest things, right? Shoutout to the CMHD teachers from Von Steuben High School who decided to host a History Day Kickoff event at NEIU Library today -- it was awesome!! Special thanks to the hosts, organizers, and archival presenters, including:
Emma Saito Lincoln, JASC - Japanese American Service Committee
Emily Reiher, Women and Leadership Archives at Loyola University Chicago
Allison Sutton, The Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC)
Ashley Howdeshell and Team, Illinois Regional Archives Depository and
Jeanne Long, Chicago Collections Consortium
Ed Remus, NEIU History Librarian, NEIU Libraries
Lily Sauceda, CMHD
Josh Salzman, Professor
Ms. Tondelli, Ms. Thomas, Mr. Davis, and the rest of the team from Von, and anyone else we've missed!
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Join us for a Student Webinar on November 9th, at 1:00 PM. Historian Zonnie Gorman, the daughter of Carl Gorman, one of the original Navajo Code Talkers of World War II, shares the incredible journey of her father and the pilot group of Navajo Code Talkers who created the first Navajo code.
This event is FREE!
Register now: http://ow.ly/hMgt50LeROJ
Any History Fair alums considering a career in the archives???
Interested in our 2023 Archie Motley Archival Internship Program? Prospective student interns and BMRC Member Institutions interested in hosting an intern are encouraged to review the website and read the application guidelines. https://tinyurl.com/archieintern
Research at the Chicago History Museum is back after a major renovation of our collections areas!
Check-out privileges for Mitchell Museum members!
The Mitchell Museum is now offering the opportunity for our members to check out books from our library! Please stop by to set up your library account or purchase a museum membership to access our large selection of books for all interests and ages. To learn more, visit https://mitchellmuseum.org/library/ or email us at [email protected].
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Do you have students interested in creating a documentary project?
Check out these documentaries from Maryland Public Television and Firelight Films - BECOMING FREDERICK DOUGLASS and HARRIET TUBMAN: VISIONS OF FREEDOM. Then, use this video series featuring filmmaker Stanley Nelson to explore the โstory behind the storyโ as Nelson describes how he engaged in critical thinking, problem-solving, and historical research to tell the stories of two of our nationโs greatest freedom fighters.
Watch the video series for NHD students here: https://buff.ly/3TgubBU
Day is here!
It's Day! Librarians and archivists from member institutions are always happy to answer your questions about the history and culture of the Chicago region through ASK US: https://ask.chicagocollections.org/
A great resource for History Day researchers ages 14 and older!
On this Indigenous Peoples' Day, consider visiting the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian!
Come celebrate Indigenous Peoplesโ Day with us at the Mitchell Museum with free admission all day!
*Just added* 10:30am - A 60-minute tour with our wonderful docent Carol through our main exhibit "A Regional Tour of American Indian Cultures".
Event and ticket info here https://mitchellmuseum.org/events/ipd2022/
Three webinar opportunities from the National Archives...
We support the year-long National History Day competition as an exciting way for students to study and learn about historical issues, ideas, people, and events at our locations around the country and online! The National Archives is the nation's record keeper. We hold billions of primary sources. Ma...
History Day loves a good โ and the welcoming hosts at the Frances Willard House Museum and WCTU Archives who greet History Day researchers each year! Whatโs your favorite archive, History Day alums?
? Archival repositories exist in many shapes & sizes, from huge academic facilities to tiny research centers (like ours, shown here)! Big or small, libraries or museums, religious, corporate or governmental, we join to celebrate with this special . This image is circa 1940, when the WCTU Archives opened. Looks pretty much the same now--cozy & comfortable--but with more archival boxes on the shelves than books. Plus a new-fangled computer, wi-fi, & suchlike.
A spooky post for the season!
More topic brainstorming resources for Frontiers in History!
The United Farm Workers organized to bring attention to the working conditions faced by farmers during the 1960s and 1970s. This lesson provides access to a collection of artifacts and primary sources on the UFW, while also placing Cรฉsar Chรกvez and Dolores Huerta within the larger civil rights mov...
Anna May Wong was recently discussed at our Virtual Frontiers in Asian American History event with Anna Guevarra - another NHD Frontiers topic alert!
Join us for a special screening and panel discussion celebrating Hollywood's Anna May Wong and the American Women Quartersโข๏ธ Program.
The Film(ed) Frontier webinar next week!
We're celebrating with this shout-out to our friends at the Chicago Collections Consortium! Check out their digital exhibits for great topic ideas for Frontiers in History!
Celebrate with us by exploring Chicago history through our digital exhibits! https://exhibits.chicagocollections.org/digital-exhibits/index
Exhibits include a Glimpse Back at Chicago's Communities and Neighborhoods; The 1963 Chicago Public Schools Boycott, Wild in the City: Chicagoland's Urban Ecology; Race Riots and Chicago in 1919; Place of Protest: Chicago's Legacy of Dissent, Declaration, and Disruption; and The Sporting Life: Stories from Chicago Collections Archives.
Image: Fiestas Puertorriquenas
Source: Puerto Rican Arts Alliance
This image can be found as part of the exhibit section Puerto Rican Life in Humboldt Park https://exhibits.chicagocollections.org/10th-anniversary-exhibit/puerto-rican-life-in-humboldt-park
Important new resource available at our recommended research partner, the Harsh Collection at Woodson Library. Did you know that the Harsh Collection is the largest collection of African American History and Literature in the Midwest? So many History Day projects have been researched at 95th and Halsted!
Members of the Afro-American Genealogical and Historical Society of Chicago spent nearly a decade cataloging the burial records of Black Chicagoans.
Happy World Teachers' Day 2022! We are grateful for our committed and hardworking educators!
We are excited to welcome our first History Day field trip visitors back to the Chicago History Museum! CMHD program associate Lily Sauceda welcomed students from Lenart School today. We hope your school can join us for a field trip as well!
Students interested in Assyrian history may be interested in this event.
First, Lizzo plays a 200-year-old flute from the Library of Congress and now Rosa Parksโ pancake recipe?! Arenโt libraries and archives filled with cool stuff?
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Need some research help? Try digital archives!
Check out this video from our series produced in partnership with National Endowment for the Humanities, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Burke Museum, and NYPL The New York Public Library to help your project research.
Watch here: https://buff.ly/3TGJhSx
Important new webinars from Ohio History Day!
Students across the midwest, not just Ohio, will find these tips helpful for learning about and researching American Indian peoples, cultures, and history. In addition to these great resources, students may also find inspiration for a History Day topic if they are in the topic selection phase of the process.
This webinar series is free and open to all.
Learn more at:
https://www.ohiohistory.org/education/ohio-history-day/students/
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/AIRPartI
NHD topic alert! Did you know that NEH funding is one of the reasons that Chicago Metro History Day exists? Grants from the NEH helped start both NHD and CMHD (originally called History Fair), NHD's partner here in Chicago, in the 1970s. New frontiers in teaching and learning the humanities!
About Office of Communications Office of Congressional Affairs Budget / Performance Contact NEH Equal Employment Opportunity FOIA History Digital Repository Founding Legislation Past Chairmen Timeline Human Resources Information Quality National Council on the Humanities Office of the Chair Office o...
Looking for topics for 2023? This book has so many wonderful leads!
Women Building Chicago: A Biographical Dictionary, 1790-1990
Looking for information on the history of Chicago women? We have the book!
Women Building Chicago contains full length biographies of 423 Chicago women who impacted the city in significant ways. Referred to as โthe bibleโ of Chicago womenโs history, our book includes labor leaders, social reformers, lawyers, doctors, artists, musicians, scientists, educators, politicians, philanthropists, religious leaders, writers, actors and many others.
The entire book is available online on our website, or check out individual entries of such notables as Jane Addams, Ida B. Wells, Pearl Hart, Lucy Parsons, Hannah Greenebaum Solomon and Frances E. Willard.
To purchase, check out the link in our stories!
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Learning opportunity from the national office...
SAVE THE DATE: Theme Q&A Session
We will host our annual theme Q&A session on Thursday, September 29, at 7 pm ET / 4 pm PT.
Link to register: https://buff.ly/3dvHgrU
Heads up, Chicago Metro History Day!
Interested in film history for your project? Check out this article in the theme book by the US National Archives THE FILM(ED) FRONTIER: TWENTIETH-CENTURY HISTORY CAPTURED IN MOTION PICTURES.
Visit NHD.Org/Theme to download the theme book to check out this article. You can also order your own copy of the theme book at NHD.Org/Shop.
Ready for the new yearโs websites!!
is NOW OPEN! Students can start their NHDWebCentral today at nhdwebcentral.org.
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National History Day excitement begins! Chicago History Museum kicked off w/ its educator event last week. And we are ready to welcome students looking for topics & primary sources on the theme โFrontiers in History: People, Places, Ideas.โ See our NHD page tinyurl.com/mr2675d7 for info & suggestions.
With the goal to โagitate, educate, organize,โ WCTU members pushed social boundaries, crossing new frontiers in the U.S. and the world, & paving the way for women to vote, lead, and effect positive change. The WCTU intersected with women everywhere. The extensive primary sources in the WCTU Archives bring hidden voices & untold stories to light. Chicago Collections
Check out the new student guide by National History Day and the Library of Congress โ shout-out to CMHD teacher Michael Biondo who authored the chapter about using Library of Congress maps in NHD projects!
We are so excited to announce the release of our new book, FINDING, ANALYZING, AND CONSTRUCTING HISTORY: A RESEARCH GUIDE FOR STUDENTS, co-written with , The Library of Congress. This open-access Student Guide is filled with hints, tips, and activities to encourage student inquiry and historical research.
Download a copy today at nhd.org/library-congress-tps.
NHD research resources from our friends at the Women and Leadership Archives at Loyola University Chicago!
A digital history exhibit on women and the labor movement
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