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Monthly Archive: November 2017

Lesson about Thanksgiving Day

Thursday is a big holiday in the United States, where we are located, so this blog will be quiet until next week. Happy Thanksgiving!

[caption id="attachment_6881" align="alignleft" width="656"] Thanksgiving Day lesson, Whittier Primary School, Hampton, Virginia, ca. 1899–1900, by Francis Benjamin Johnston, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97507246/.[/caption]
Some Links related to the Historian’s Profession

Some Links related to the Historian’s Profession

“History, Historians, and ‘the Current Moment,'” Perspectives, November 2017

Jim Grossman, executive directer of the American Historical Association, reflects on what historians can do in these challenging times. Not surprisingly, communication is front and center, but his suggestion is more nuanced and very in tune with this period of myriad small publics… Read more