Social Reform Lessons and PR

From: Howard Lurie (hlurie@MASSED.NET)
Date: Mon Jan 18 1999 - 20:59:51 EST


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Poster: Howard Lurie <hlurie@MASSED.NET>
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Greetings fellow AM Fellows past and present.=20

Here is a snapshot of my Fall-Winter activities:=20

1. As part of a community college course on the social reform tradition =
in American history, I put together several web based assignments, most =
of which draw on LOC collections. The urls are below. Please use to =
your hearts delight, and send me any suggestions for the future. As =
expected, my students were entranced by the depth and breadth of the =
collections. As time passed, we all became increasingly sophisticated =
in our use of the selected sites. We were really able to, as Randy Bass =
urged us last August, to slow down our studies and savor the process. At =
any rate, here they are:=20

http://www.howhist.com/ccv/web1.htm (Cult of True Womanhood)=20
http://www.howhist.com/ccv/web2.htm (Who were the women of Seneca =
Falls?)=20
http://www.howhist.com/ccv/web3.htm (Photography and Suffrage )=20
http://www.howhist.com/ccv/web4.htm (Ungilding the Gilded Age)=20
http://www.howhist.com/ccv/web5.htm (Triangle Fire stuff)=20
http://www.howhist.com/ccv/web7.htm (Best of Civil Rights web )=20

The exercise was for searching, evaluating and citing sources from the =
web ( for research projects):=20
http://www.howhist.com/ccv/web6.htm=20

2. As part of my work with the American Social History Project's New =
Media Classroom AND the LOC, I designed and presented two recent =
workshops on New Media resources, and of course relied heavily on the =
LOC sites and resources. The first presentation was for the humanities =
faculty at the largest HS in Vermont (!) and can be visited at: =
http://www.howhist.com/outreach/NMC/loc.htm This was mostly a stand and =
deliver presentation, but I managed to spend a considerable amount of =
time with the LOC collections. =20

The second presentation was for Facing History and Ourselves, a national =
program dedicated to Holocaust Studies, as well as the use of history in =
secondary classrooms. Although my focus here was more towards the use =
of electronic discussion, we did examine and discuss the use of video =
and sound archives. The url for this gig is at: =
http://www.howhist.com/outreach/fho.htm

Again, please feel free to visit, loot, and plunder; please be so kind =
to reference me if you do.=20

3. For the future: my un-indicted co-conspirator, Arnold Pulda, and I =
have submitted proposals to a few regional and national conferences on =
history teaching and New Media. We'll keep everyone up to speed if =
we're accepted.=20
We're still working on our sites, and now moving towards the use of =
several photo collections from the FSA site. Stay tuned.

Hope all is well with everyone, and that the weather is being kind to =
you.=20

Howard Lurie=20
Mount Greylock Regional High School=20
Williamstown, Mass.=20

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