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Speaker Spotlight: Sandra Hewlett
This year's Family History Days brings together professional genealogists and family historians from around the world to help beginner & seasoned researchers alike find their story. In the weeks leading up to Family History Days on March 18 & 19, we'll be spotlighting several of the event's featured speakers. Want to register for Family History Days? Click here or visit hsp.org/FHD Friday, 2/19/16 1:32 pm
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Speaker Spotlight: Maureen Taylor
This year's Family History Days brings together professional genealogists and family historians from around the world to help beginner & seasoned researchers alike find their story. In the weeks leading up to Family History Days on March 18 & 19, we'll be spotlighting several of the event's featured speakers. Click here to register for Family History Days or visit hsp.org/FHD Wednesday, 2/3/16 7:51 pm
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The Oliver H. Bair Company Records
In 2015, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP) launched HSP Encounters, a new digital resource comprised of an ever-growing number of genealogical and biographical databases. Friday, 10/9/15 3:03 pm
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The Home Missionary Society of the City and County of Philadelphia
In 2015, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP) launched HSP Encounters, a new digital resource comprised of an ever-growing number of genealogical and biographical databases. HSP Encounters is an ongoing project in which records and materials deemed of high research value are digitized and made available to Friends of HSP online, in searchable form. Historical essays incorporated in the system describe each database as well as establish historical context for the records contained. Wednesday, 9/16/15 4:42 pm
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Join HSP for Family History Days this Weekend, 3/6-3/7
Every year, millions of people around the world comb through books, scour newspapers, and thumb through manuscripts searching for information about their family’s history. What starts small often becomes enormous. Many now-avid genealogists recall their humble beginnings – the discovery of a trunk full of photographs in the attic, or a question about a great grandparent’s country of origin. For many, these humble questions blossom into a lifelong pursuit connecting them to a growing community around the world. Tuesday, 3/3/15 10:26 am
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August 26 is Women's Equality Day
In 1971, Congress resolved that each August 26 would be Women's Equality Day to commemorate the passage of the 19th Amendment. While not all schools are back in session yet, this day is the perfect time to think about whether your American history curriculum includes women and their contributions. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania has several unit plans about women’s history you may use. Friday, 8/22/14 3:57 pm
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Teaching About Immigration This Year?
Immigrants quite literally helped to build America. With Labor Day and the school year approaching, HSP unit plans present ways to learn about immigrate contributions as well as to consider their living conditions. Friday, 8/15/14 11:01 am
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Different Perspectives on the Emancipation Proclamation
There are several documents that are integral to and synonymous with US history: The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, The Emancipation Proclamation. They can be found in every textbook, and students are often forced to memorize parts of them, but how often are students encouraged to think critically about these documents? Friday, 8/8/14 3:34 pm
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Bringing the Civil War to Life
When students learn history solely from a textbook, they tend to get an over-generalized picture of the period. My high school and middle-school textbooks gave me the impression that everyone in the North was anti-slavery during the Civil War, all male citizens were gung-ho to join the military during the WWII, and all African-Americans agreed with Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights period. Thursday, 7/24/14 12:30 pm
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“The Drayton Letter” and the Civil War
When students learn history solely from a textbook, they tend to get an over-generalized picture of the period. My high school and middle-school textbooks gave me the impression that everyone in the North was anti-slavery during the Civil War, all male citizens were gung-ho to join the military during the WWII, and all African-Americans agreed with Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights period. Thursday, 7/24/14 12:30 pm
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