This September, the Minnesota Humanities Center joins family, friends, fellow Veterans, and members of Minnesota’s Lao community in celebrating the 82nd birthday of Colonel Khao Insixiengmay – a Veteran, community leader, advocate, and longtime champion for ensuring that the stories and sacrifices of Lao Veterans are remembered.
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In reflecting upon the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, I find myself drawn to the story of George Washington.
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On Indigenous Peoples Day 2019, a friend snapped a photo of me with tight braids, my grandmother’s shawl, and dentalium earrings by the late Oglala artist Dana Lonehill. Five years after this photo was taken, I began my young reader’s history of Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin by examining a strikingly similar photo – one she submitted as her White House employee personnel photo in 1911.
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From freshwater springs in the forests of northern Minnesota, water bubbles out of the ground, forms a lake, and then a river. At its start in Lake Itasca, the water is clear and clean.
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MHC will also be hosting a series of events this month in which we celebrate America’s Second Independence day, Juneteenth.
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Thirteen years ago, when I first moved to Minnesota to work at the Consulate of Mexico, one of the first events I became involved with was the Festival of Nations.
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The storms of the spring often light up the sky with great anger and fury only to subside to allow the sun to come out the next day to warm the plants and trees that have been nourished by the rain. At the time this article is published, all Humanities Councils (Councils) across the United States and its territories will have been without federal funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for thirteen months.
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For centuries, handwritten books—manuscripts—have been woven into the fabric of everyday life in Ethiopia. They are clues, documenting what people over thousands of years thought important enough to share. It is incredible what these voices from the past and present have to tell and teach us.
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In the hallways of St. Paul Public Schools (SPPS), we often talk about "mirrors and windows" Emily Style (1988) - the idea that every student deserves to see themselves reflected in their learning and to look out onto the diverse world around them.
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When I was first presented with the idea of writing a K5 social studies curriculum from scratch, I was a bit skeptical. Having done curriculum work in the past, I know it can be time consuming and locating sources can be a tedious task.
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