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Contemporary Social Studies 2010

Social studies is a big and sometimes unwieldy subject. Given with the massive body of content in the field and differentiation among pedagogical approaches, social studies educators have the space to be creative and expressive. There are certainly some agreed upon aims in social studies. In fact, there is something approaching consensus that social studies should aim to prepare young people for citizenship. But, what that process entails is a point of considerable disagreement. In a course on…See More
Dec 6, 2010
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Robert Coven's blog post was featured

Plymouth: A Tale of Two Rocks

Preface:This entry is meant to summarize Chapter 13 of Horwitz's book, A Voyage Long and Strange. In addition, the chapter will be placed in some historiographic context by means of comparison to two older works of history that touch on the same subject: the English settlement of Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. The older works are by Marcius Wilson (1847) and Woodrow Wilson (1902).Summary:In 1602, Bartholomew Gosnold left England for the New World with an apothecary and twenty settlers to find…See More
Nov 29, 2010
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John Lee posted a discussion

Contrasting views on Norman Rockwell's America

Norman Rockwell's Family Tree 1959 Chronicling America: The Art of Norman Rockwell, an exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Art, features 40 original Rockwell illustrations and 323 Saturday Evening Post covers. The comments below are contrasting analytical readings of illustrations. For each comment, one of the readings is representational and the other oppositional. The representational readings focus on what meets the eye…See More
Nov 29, 2010
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John Lee posted a discussion

Narrative map histories

1507 Martin Waldseemüller map Online at the Library of Congress hereC-Span Book Talk with Toby Lester on his book  The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name (Free Press, November 3, 2009). Available online at  http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/PartofThe North Carolina Historical Map Overlay Project at…See More
Nov 22, 2010
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Chad Michael Glenn posted a blog post

Summit Evolution

This soundscape includes 6 tracks:a recording of the hustle and bustle at a warehousea recording of a forkliftan original recording of coffee brewingan original recording of people piling into a church servicean original recording of a church choir at Summit churchan original recording of a sermon at Summit churchI wanted to use sound to tell the story of Summit Church evolving from a warehouse to a church where thousands attend to worship every weekend. The soundscape starts out in the…See More
Nov 18, 2010
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John Lee posted a discussion

Docs Teach activities

Below is a collection of activities developed by graduate students in a course on contemporary approaches to teaching social studies at NC State University. These activities were developed using the Docs Teach tool from the National Archives online at http://docsteach.org 
Oct 20, 2010
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Christopher Thomas Dague posted a discussion

Visual Creation - The French Revolution

http://www.capzles.com/e96fec37-5f78-49e9-bc57-1bacbf4cf353 The process of producing a visual creation was less about the topic and more about the product. After specializing in modern French history in graduate school, I knew that I would like to find a new way to activate and utilize my knowledge on the French Revolution to produce a piece that would provide chronological overview of the years preceding as well as the…See More
Oct 18, 2010
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John Lee posted a discussion

Visualizations of social studies

This work includes graphical / visual representations of information insocial studies. The work makes use of Noah Iliinsky'sfour conditions for "beautiful" visualsincluding, aesthetic quality, novelty, ability to inform,and efficiency - available here.This work was completed by students in a graduate class at North Carolina State University in the fall of 2010 See More
Oct 10, 2010
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Blog Posts

Summit Evolution

Posted by Chad Michael Glenn on November 18, 2010 at 3:29pm

Lincoln: The Human and the Hero Sides...

Posted by Candice Gilliland Brewer on September 13, 2010 at 2:00pm

Response for Readings - Lincoln in the Telegraph Office

Posted by Taylor Blanton on September 12, 2010 at 3:58pm

History/Transition of Cardinal Gibbons High School

Posted by Taylor Blanton on September 12, 2010 at 3:09pm

Battle of Guilford Courthouse Soundscape

Posted by Lauren Ellott on September 9, 2010 at 3:47pm

Using The Senses to Teach.

Posted by Lauren Ellott on August 30, 2010 at 4:50pm

Toughts on Roundtable Readings

Posted by Tyler Anderson on August 30, 2010 at 3:22pm

Sensory Experiences in Teaching History

Posted by Clayton Traver on August 30, 2010 at 12:12pm

Not sure I want to smell history, but...

Posted by Candice Gilliland Brewer on August 30, 2010 at 12:00pm

Discussion of the Senses in Teaching History

Posted by Taylor Blanton on August 30, 2010 at 9:33am

Reflection on The Senses in American History: A Roundtable from Journal of American History 95(2)

Posted by Cristina Fishbane on August 25, 2010 at 11:05pm

The Civil War Augmented Reality Project

Posted by Jeff Mummert on July 9, 2010 at 10:09am

dhArt - Evolution of Music

Posted by Stephen Brame on May 15, 2010 at 12:30am

Becoming Digital - The Apex Journal

Posted by Stephen Brame on May 14, 2010 at 6:00pm

Reg Murphy - Visual Essay

Posted by Stephen Brame on May 14, 2010 at 11:30am

Found Digital History - The Pacific

Posted by Stephen Brame on May 14, 2010 at 10:30am

Found History - Sinking of the USS Maine

Posted by Lindsey Dowling on May 13, 2010 at 10:30am

Reg Murphy - The Great Wall of China

Posted by Lindsey Dowling on May 13, 2010 at 9:39am

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (d h ART)

Posted by Lindsey Dowling on May 13, 2010 at 2:34am

Slave Song Representation - Becoming Digital

Posted by Lindsey Dowling on May 13, 2010 at 1:30am

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Narrative map histories 27 Replies

Started by John Lee in Visual historical inquiry. Last reply by 05mz89x7llldp Dec 20, 2010.

Wikipedia and historiography 26 Replies

Started by John Lee in Visual historical inquiry. Last reply by 05mz89x7llldp Dec 20, 2010.

Contrasting views on Norman Rockwell's America 25 Replies

Started by John Lee in Visual historical inquiry. Last reply by 05mz89x7llldp Dec 20, 2010.

Google map of The day after A Date that will Live in Infamy


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Bird's eye view phots

These are bird's eye view maps from the David Rumsey collection


Carolina Power and Light (CP&L) Photograph Collection, Ph.C.68
295 images - 1900-1975
"This collection is an especially good source of early 20th century photographs of cities across North Carolina, especially Raleigh."

 
 
 

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