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Recovering Women’s Stories/Inventing Women’s History
March 24, 2021 - By Mary K. Boyd
March has been National Women’s History Month since 1987. It is amazing to realize that just two decades before that, the profession of history did not recognize women’s history as a valid field of inquiry.
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The Case for Civic Education
February 18, 2020 - By Kevin Lindsey
The Minnesota Humanities Center was recently invited to comment on the state of civics education at the Minnesota Legislature at an informational hearing on February 6, 2020 in St. Paul. We took the opportunity to reaffirm our belief in the National Endowment for the Humanities enabling legislation that our democracy demands wisdom and vision from its citizens.
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America’s Secret War: A Multimedia Workshop Designed by and for Educators
November 7, 2019 - By Katie Carpenter
In the shadows of the Vietnam War, the CIA conducted a secret war in Laos that relied on Hmong soldiers to prevent the threat of communism from spreading deeper into Southeast Asia. Tens of thousands died, both in the fight and in the escape.
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Bruce Lee and the Rules of Engagement
July 23, 2019 - By Karin Aguilar-San Juan
For several years at Macalester College I’ve been teaching a course about Bruce Lee, the iconic martial artist/movie star from the 1970s. The course explores themes of racism, masculinity, and violence. As a lifelong martial arts practitioner myself, I admire Bruce Lee’s skill, perseverance, and insight.
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The Future is Ours to Shape
April 18, 2019 - By Amy K. Hamlin
I work at St. Catherine University where I am an Associate Professor of Art History and also one of three mission chairs. At St. Kate’s, our mission is to educate women to lead and influence. The three mission chairs correspond to the three pillars of our mission: Catholic, women,…
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What We Don’t Know We Don’t Know About Veterans on Campus
March 19, 2019 - By Amy Muse
A few weeks after I attended the Veterans’ Voices Educator Salon in summer 2018, a card appeared in my mailbox; it was from me, reminding future me of ways I could help student-Veterans at the University of St. Thomas, where I teach English.
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