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Experts: Barnum about more than showbiz
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Like most Bridgeporters, Yohuru Williams grew up surrounded by the name P.T. Barnum.
Indeed, the name of the one-time Bridgeport mayor and circus impresario is seemingly everywhere in the city -- Barnum Avenue, the Barnum Museum, P.T. Barnum Apartments, etc. But, given the ubiquity of his moniker, Barnum remained something of a mystery to Williams, who knew him primarily as a slick entertainer and promoter.
“When you think about P.T. Barnum, he still kind of comes off as a slimy showman,” said Williams, also vice president for history education at the American Institute for History Education in Swedesboro, N.J. “He has this rogue element about him.”
Yet, upon doing research on Barnum for an upcoming book on teaching history, Williams discovered another, seldom discussed aspect to Barnum’s personality: that of a passionate advocate for civil rights and against slavery.
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-Connecticut Post Article, 2/28/201003/01/2010 |
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Teaching History Sixties Style at Temple University
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[Excerpt] ...That was the beginning. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from that point on, the students stayed for 30, 60, sometimes even 90 minutes after class, discussing present-day examples of whatever topic we had been examining in class. After a couple of weeks I suggested that if they agreed we could open up the Friday post-class discussion and invite anyone who was interested to come and join us in discussing the historical background of contemporary issues. And I suggested that we call them "teach-ins" (as a child of the 1960s, I couldn't help it).
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02/28/2010 |
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Dr. Yohuru Williams Discusses Massachusetts Senate Election Impact
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Dr. Yohuru Williams to discuss impact of the Massachusetts Senate Election on President Obama’s legislative agenda on The Talk of Chicago WVON 1690am this evening at 5:30pm Central Time.
Noted Civil Rights and African American history author Dr. Yohuru Williams will offer commentary regarding the impact of the outcome of this evening’s special election in Massachusetts on President Obama’s legislative agenda, most notably including possibilities surrounding the President’s healthcare goals.
Dr. Williams is Vice President for History Education with the American Institute for History Education (AIHE). A prolific author and commentator, Dr. Williams is considered to be an expert in Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, 19th and 20th century US education history, and African American history. He is a professor of history at Fairfield University and oversees AIHE’s CODiE Award-winning online teacher resources CiceroHistory.com and SojournerHistory.com.
Dr. Williams has authored, co-authored, edited or co-edited a number of academic and historical works, including Liberated Territory, Toward a Local History of the Black Panther Party (with Jama Lazerow); Teaching US History Beyond the Textbook: Six Investigative Strategies, Grades 5-12; and Black Politics, White Power, Civil Rights, Black Power and the Black Panthers in New Haven.
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-Press Release01/19/2010 |
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Third Annual Mount Vernon History Teacher of the Year Award Won by Jim Percoco
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The third annual Mount Vernon History Teacher of the Year award was won on July 22 by James Percoco, a history teacher at West Springfield HSchool. Percoco, who created the nationally recognized Applied History course at West Springfield HS, was awarded $5,000 and an all-expenses-paid field trip to Mount Vernon for his students at West Springfield HS.
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-Press Release07/23/2009 |
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Interview with Ralph Young
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Ralph Young is a scholar of the history of dissent in the United States of America. A Professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, he was an activist in the protest movement against the Vietnam War. His book Dissent in America has been very successful in the U.S.
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-Italian Magazine: Instoria06/18/2009 |
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CICERO Wins Best Social Studies Solution
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San Francisco, CA - May 5, 2009 - The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) presented their 2009
CODiE Awards for outstanding achievement and vision in the software, digital information and education
technology industries...
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-Press Release05/05/2009 |
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CLA's Young Shows the Flip Side of Patriotism
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Over the years, there have been different ways to dissent. John and Yoko fashioned a bed-in for peace. Timothy Leary invited others to tune-in to their spiritual nature. And now, Temple history professor Ralph Young hosts teach-ins to stimulate debate on differing points of view.
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-Temple University04/20/2009 |
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The New Middle East
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The stakes in the Middle East are higher today, both for the peoples of the region and the West, than ever before. ... The New Middle East will also examine what I consider to be the biases, both conceptual and normative, in the West and the region itself, that are part of much analysis of the Middle East.
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-Blogspot.com03/09/2009 |
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TEN Crucial Days
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This NJN special highlights the significance of the Christmas Night Crossing and the Battle of Trenton. The program covers a key ten day period during the American Revolutionary War, December 25 to January 3, 1776, often referred to as the "Ten Crucial Days of the American Revolution".
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-NJN Public Television12/25/2008 |
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Teaching American History
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Partnered with the James Madison Program at Princeton, AIHE, and the Southern Oregon Historical Society, Southern Oregon ESD has successfully obtained a $984,000 federal grant to provide professional development for forty-five 4th through 12th grade teachers in a three-county service area.
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-SOESD12/23/2008 |
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