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Archive: November 2024 (3 Posts)

Reconstruction. Primary sources show aspects of different social, political, and cultural changes during Reconstruction and their legacy.

AHHA Intern Spotlight: Ava Thorpe

Posted by: Donna Sokol

This is a guest post by Ava Thorpe, an intern in the AHHA program during the Fall of 2024. Transforming Education with Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: My Journey with the Library of Congress Digital Collections My name is Ava Thorpe, and I had the privilege of working on a transformative project titled “Supporting Culturally Relevant Pedagogy …

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Members of NHBP pose in the Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson building of the Library of Congress, with staff member from the American Folklife Center in the middle.

Community Collections Spotlight: Indian Town: Bodéwadmi (Potawatomi) People, “We’re Still Here”

Posted by: Michelle Stefano

This is a guest post by Michelle and JW Newson on the 2024 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grant project, Indian Town, of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi (NHBP). The American Folklife Center’s Community Collections Grant program is part of the Library of Congress Of the People: Widening the Path initiative.

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A group photo of musicians and dancers at the altar of small church in Carnuel, New Mexico.

Community Collections Spotlight: Sustaining and Reclaiming Cultural Danzas: Los Matachines y Los Comanchitos and Passing Down Tradition in Small New Mexican Villages

Posted by: Michelle Stefano

American Folklife Center Community Collections Grant recipient Yvette Cohn Stoor writes about her project, Sustaining and Reclaiming Cultural Danzas: Los Matechines Y Los Comanchitos, as supported through the Library’s Of the People: Widening the Path initiative.

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