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Don DeLillo’s Libra at 30

November 14, 2018 - Lisa Pulsifer

Decades after its publication, this fictional account of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas remains provocative. [Read more…] about Don DeLillo’s Libra at 30

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: book club, Don DeLillo, education, literature

Teaching in the archives

April 24, 2018 - Reid Echols

“Tell me why you think this is in the room,” I ask, pointing to a pair of delicately beaded moccasins on the lower shelf of the display case. [Read more…] about Teaching in the archives

Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching Tagged With: classroom, education, students, Undergraduate

Artist Penelope Umbrico finds photographic inspiration in the digital age

February 12, 2016 - Kathleen Telling

New York-based artist Penelope Umbrico’s photographic works explore the relationships between modern technology and professional photography, the widespread availability and consumption of internet images. [Read more…] about Artist Penelope Umbrico finds photographic inspiration in the digital age

Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events, Photography Tagged With: digital age, education, Internet Images, Look Inside: New Photography Acquisitions, Penelope Umbrico, Photo Apps, Photography, Range

Teacher workshops demonstrate value of primary source materials in Ransom Center’s collections to enhance learning

February 21, 2012 - Danielle Sigler

Teachers attend a workshop about using Watergate materials in their classroom in 2011. Photo by Pete Smith.
Teachers attend a workshop about using Watergate materials in their classroom in 2011. Photo by Pete Smith.

In elementary school, my class took a field trip to the main branch of the Houston Public Library. We learned how to use the microfilm machines, and I was allowed to look up the front page of the newspaper from the day I was born. I still remember the “Ransom Recovered” headline, a reference to the Patty Hearst case, something about which I knew absolutely nothing.

That moment sitting in front of a microfilm reader is as vivid to me now as it was 30 years ago. Suddenly, there was an entire world before me. I had discovered the appeal of research and of primary source materials. I certainly wouldn’t have articulated it that way at the time. I just knew that I had found something new and interesting that suggested limitless possibility.

That love of research ultimately led me to the Ransom Center. And appreciating the value of using primary source materials in the classroom has inspired the Ransom Center’s teacher workshops.

For the last five years, the Center has offered seminars for teachers on topics ranging from the 1920s to Watergate. These workshops provide the Ransom Center with the opportunity to share collections with educators from around the state who can then take their experiences and digital materials back to the classroom and their students. Local teachers can also follow up by bringing their students to tour the exhibitions.

This spring, the Ransom Center will be hosting two workshops related to the exhibition The King James Bible: Its History and Influence. The first workshop will examine the historical influence of the King James translation and is designed for social studies teachers at the junior high and high school levels, while the second workshop will focus on the King James Bible’s literary influence and is designed for language arts teachers at the junior high and high school levels.

A grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, made these workshops possible. Thanks to their support, teachers will leave the workshop with a copy of Gordon Campbell’s Bible: The Story of the King James Version 1611–2011, an edition of the King James Bible, and digital images from the Center’s collections to use in their classrooms.

By supporting the work of local educators, we hope to foster the next generation of scholars and help students understand how vital the care and preservation of our cultural heritage is.

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: education, educator resources, Humanities Texas, K-12, King James Bible, National Endowment for the Humanities, primary source material, teachers

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