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Educators Blog
1/25/18
Author kmccleary@hsp.org
We recently highlighted our updated Digital Library, inviting you to explore the origins and diversity of Pennsylvania and the United States from the colonial period and the nation's founding to the experience of contemporary life. This update is designed to help you and your students access primary sources within the classroom, on your smartphones, and from your home. There’s another great resource we would like to call your attention to – The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
Topics : Education
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11/22/17
Author Beth A Twiss Houting
*This blog is the tenth in a series by Sarah Sharp, Global Educator for World Heritage Philadelphia
Topics : 19th century, Arts and Culture, Business, Economics, Immigration, Industry, Philadelphia
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10/18/17
Author Beth A Twiss Houting
We are happy to report that HSP has been recertified to offer Act 48 credit for the three next years. Our teacher professional development programs offer you a chance to take a deeper dive into history, examine sources that you can use with students, and discuss with peers best teaching practices. We have three opportunities for you in the next month. Each program offers 3 Act 48 credits.
10/18/17
Author Beth A Twiss Houting
*This blog is the ninth in a series by Sarah Sharp, Global Educator for World Heritage Philadelphia
Part II: Imagining another world exposition in Philadelphia
Topics : 19th century
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10/18/17
Author Beth A Twiss Houting
*This blog is the eighth in a series by Sarah Sharp, Global Educator for World Heritage Philadelphia.
Part I: Discussing the 1876 Centennial
Topics : Philadelphia
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10/10/17
Author Beth A Twiss Houting
We are pleased to bring you a guest-blogger, Katie Samson, who is Assistant Director of Museum Education at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Topics : Arts and Culture
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10/10/17
Author kmccleary@hsp.org
"The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely."
~ E.O. Wilson, American Biologist, Pulitzer Prize Winner and Professor Emeritus Harvard
9/15/17
Author kmccleary@hsp.org
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
Topics : 18th century, American Revolution, Government and civics, Politics
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9/11/17
Author kmccleary@hsp.org
The nation is currently undergoing some soul-searching over whether to take down monuments to the Confederacy and other historical figures across our national landscape. Some historians believe a statue in a public place can serve an important educational purpose, and taking monuments down or hiding them away may facilitate forgetting.
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