"Dublin Core:Title","Dublin Core:Subject","Dublin Core:Description","Dublin Core:Creator","Dublin Core:Source","Dublin Core:Publisher","Dublin Core:Date","Dublin Core:Contributor","Dublin Core:Rights","Dublin Core:Relation","Dublin Core:Format","Dublin Core:Language","Dublin Core:Type","Dublin Core:Identifier","Dublin Core:Coverage","Item Type Metadata:Text","Item Type Metadata:Interviewer","Item Type Metadata:Interviewee","Item Type Metadata:Location","Item Type Metadata:Transcription","Item Type Metadata:Local URL","Item Type Metadata:Original Format","Item Type Metadata:Physical Dimensions","Item Type Metadata:Duration","Item Type Metadata:Compression","Item Type Metadata:Producer","Item Type Metadata:Director","Item Type Metadata:Bit Rate/Frequency","Item Type Metadata:Time Summary","Item Type Metadata:Email Body","Item Type Metadata:Subject Line","Item Type Metadata:From","Item Type Metadata:To","Item Type Metadata:CC","Item Type Metadata:BCC","Item Type Metadata:Number of Attachments","Item Type Metadata:Standards","Item Type Metadata:Objectives","Item Type Metadata:Materials","Item Type Metadata:Lesson Plan Text","Item Type Metadata:URL","Item Type Metadata:Event Type","Item Type Metadata:Participants","Item Type Metadata:Birth Date","Item Type Metadata:Birthplace","Item Type Metadata:Death Date","Item Type Metadata:Occupation","Item Type Metadata:Biographical Text","Item Type Metadata:Bibliography","Item Type Metadata:Player","Item Type Metadata:Imported Thumbnail","Item Type Metadata:Referrer",tags,file,itemType,collection,public,featured "Inspirational Literature",,"In this video Marlene Daut describes how teaching literature to college students enables them to both understand their lives and history better, as well as be inspired regarding their possible futures. ",,,,,"Marlene Daut, Associate Professor of African Diaspora Studies, University of Virginia",,,,,,marlene-daut-inspirational-literature,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"African American Authors,African American History,African American Literature,Books & Reading,Coral Gables, Florida,History,Inspiration,Professors,Teachers & Teaching,United States History,University of Miami,Wheatley, Phillis,Women's History","http://humanitiesmoments.org/files/original/10/47/hm-daut-360.mp4,http://humanitiesmoments.org/files/original/8/28/Phillis_Wheatley.jpg","Moving Image","National Humanities Center Fellows",1,0 "The Only Person of Color in the Room",,"
At 95, Betty Reid Soskin is the oldest active U.S. Park Ranger. Having lived through wars, racial segregation, and other turbulent times in our history, she says empathy and world peace are possible through the humanities.
To celebrate its 40th year anniversary of grant making, programming, and partnerships that connect Californians to each other, California Humanities invited a group of 40 prominent Californians to explore what the humanities mean to them. For more information visit California Humanities: We Are the Humanities.
",,,"California Humanities",,"Betty Reid Soskin, U.S. National Park Service Ranger","Standard YouTube License",,,,,betty-reid-soskin-us-national-park-ranger,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"",,,"African American History,American Civil War & Collective Memory,Ancestors,Collective Memory,Empathy,Historic Sites,Historical Memory,History,National Parks & Reserves,Peace,Race Relations,Slavery,United States Park Rangers,Women's History",http://humanitiesmoments.org/files/original/5/56/1985_ribbon_cutting_African_American_Park_Ranger.jpg,"Moving Image","California Humanities: “We Are the Humanities”",1,0 "Well-Behaved Women","The humanities contributed to this moment, because my ancestors and myself are using words to make sense of the world and our place in it.... Resisting!","My moment focuses on the fact that African American women have been using their words as Political Resistance. The humanities contributed to this moment, because my ancestors and myself are using words to make sense of the world and our place in it.... Resisting!","Laurel Thatcher Ulrich","Well - Behaved Women Seldom Make History",,"It started when the first slave arrived in America and is ongoing.","Jacqueline Stallworth, 46 years old, High School English teacher in northern Virginia",,,,,,well-behaved-women,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"African American History,African American Women Authors,Ancestors,Civil Rights,Hurston, Zora Neale,Resistance,Teachers & Teaching,Truth, Sojourner,Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher,Wells, Ida B.,Women's History","http://humanitiesmoments.org/files/original/9/112/Well_Behaved_Women_4.jpg,http://humanitiesmoments.org/files/original/9/112/Well_Behaved_Women_1.jpg,http://humanitiesmoments.org/files/original/9/112/Well_Behaved_Women_2.jpg,http://humanitiesmoments.org/files/original/9/112/Well_Behaved_Women_3.jpg,http://humanitiesmoments.org/files/original/9/112/Well_Behaved_Women_5.jpg,http://humanitiesmoments.org/files/original/9/112/Well_Behaved_Women_6.jpg,http://humanitiesmoments.org/files/original/9/112/Well_Behaved_Women_7.jpg","Still Image","Teacher Advisory Council",1,0 "The Second Shelf and Beyond",,"In elementary school, Kathryn Hill itched to move beyond the first shelf of the library books. When she finally reached the second shelf, a new world awaited her: biographies of historical figures. The lives of women such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, and Dorothea Dix led her to understand that history was all about stories. She realized that her own life “needed to be about something”—and that it could be. ",,"Biographies of historical figures such as Harriet Tubman and Dorothea Dix",,,"Kathryn Hill, President, The Levine Museum of the New South",,,,,,kathryn-hill-second-shelf,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"",,,"Biography,Blackwell, Elizabeth,Books & Reading,Dix, Dorothea,History,Libraries,Pitcher, Molly,School Libraries,Storytelling,Stowe, Harriet Beecher,Tubman, Harriet,U.S. History,Women's History",http://humanitiesmoments.org/files/original/140/Harriet_Beecher_Stowe_c1852..jpg,"Moving Image",,1,0 "Top Secret Rosies","As a high school math teacher herself, this contributor understands the impact she can have on the life of her students, leading her to reflect on her own teaching: “Am I doing everything in my power to engage and energize my students so that they are open to their own potential and any opportunities that may come their way?”","A high school math teacher discusses the documentary Top Secret Rosies: The Female “Computers” of WWII. Beyond the awe for these women who took part in American military operations as human computers during World War II, this contributor is inspired by a statement made by one of the women in the movie, crediting her high school math teacher for her interest and advanced skills in mathematics.
",,"The documentary film Top Secret Rosies: The Female “Computers” of WWII",,,Anonymous,,,,,,top-secret-rosies,,,,,,"In 1942, soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a secret military program was launched to recruit female mathematicians to be human computers. These women were pulled from high schools and universities, and their work computing the trajectories of U.S. ballistics was critical to the success of our military operations.
A handful of these women are interviewed in the documentary Top Secret Rosies and I was drawn in when one of the Rosies said that she credits her high school math teacher, Miss Clark, for her interest in advanced skills in mathematics.
As a lateral-entry high school math teacher, who’s been in the classroom only two years, I’ve thought a lot about Miss Clark. I wonder who I would have been in 1942, and would I have had the strength and confidence to be one of these young women? Would I have had the spirit to encourage young women to accept these jobs if I had been their math teacher? My mind then brings me to today. Am I doing everything in my power to engage and energize my students, so that they are open to their own potential and any opportunities that may come their way?
",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"",,,"Attack on Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), 1941,Documentary Films,Inspiration,Mathematics,Rosie the Riveter,Teachers & Teaching,Top Secret Rosies: The Female ""Computers"" of WWII,Women's History,World War II (1939-1945)",http://humanitiesmoments.org/files/original/6/164/top-secret-rosies-900x562.jpg,Sound,"Weaver Academy",1,0 "A Personal Perspective on Journalism in the 20th Century",,"Betty Debnam created and edited the Mini Page, a nationally syndicated newspaper supplement that ran from 1969 to 2007. Inducted into the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame in 1999, her journalistic efforts introduced children to forms of news and ignited their curiosity. In this Humanities Moment, Debnam reflects on both her familial ties to the industry and her vision for civic engagement through literacy.",,,,,"Betty Debnam, journalist and founder of the Mini Page",,,,,,personal-perspective-journalism-20th-century,,,,,,"Well, we used to read the newspaper a lot, and that sounds silly, but we read, other than the comic pages. We would look over the news, and we were always interested in the news, 'cause my father eventually went on the radio and television. We always listened to him, so that was important. There was somebody that was very important for me, was my grandmother who, at the age of 55, her husband died, and he had started a newspaper in Snow Hill, North Carolina, and it's still going today, which is amazing. The name of it is the Standard Laconic, which is not a Pitt County word. It sounded unusual. I was reading in [inaudible] I think, funny name. But anyhow, she took over the newspaper after her husband died and became the editor and publisher and ran it for many years. I used to go to Snow Hill and visit her. I would go at on stories and see how interesting that was. I would go out when she was visiting the advertisers, go to court when she was getting the court cases put in that, and help her when she was, drive her around later on to get the subscriptions, which was amazing for a woman to do that back in those days. So she was one of my main inspirations. And she's in the Journalism Hall of Fame at Carolina. I'm real proud of her. That really perked my interest in newspapers. And we used to put out a newspaper for the children, for the people on the block where I lived, and we'd put out little newspapers... One of the biggest moments was when the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court asked me to do a series about the Constitution. That was a wonderful Humanities Moment, had that opportunity to interpret the Constitution to newspaper readers. I worked very carefully with people at the National Archives. I could sit down with the top expert and talk to them about what we wanted to get children to know. I could give my interpretation of it, make it accurate, because the people they'd talk with read the story before, so we'd make sure that things were right. That was one of the most wonderful moments, to have the Supreme Court Justice ask you to do something like that... The only way we're gonna get any better or any stronger as a country is if people read, and know, and get curious, and accept particularly emotional things that are so wrong, and learn to do that with thinking. That's what the humanities is all about, to try and get you to think more, and to relate more, and to improve yourself, and improve the world, and see what other people have done to try to improve through pain of music or something to make it a better place. And that's what you want for humanities to be. Because if you get your mind off some of the things that are so silly that you think about, and you waste your time on, and you make it ... I wanna tell you something, you take a whole bunch of kids to watch a performance or something, you really do tell them something about the humans that are up there dancing, they learn. You start with the play that you're seeing, and try to bring it to life, and say, ""These are people that are working in order to do that, and they're humans."" We've got to really start thinking about the humans that we're dealing with. ",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"",,"Andy Mink","Civic Engagement,Families,Journalism,Literacy,Snow Hill, North Carolina,The Mini Page,Women's History,Writers",http://humanitiesmoments.org/files/original/223/Mini_Page.jpg,Sound,,1,0 "Votes for Women at Mystic Seaport",,"The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote in the United States. I don’t think I truly grasped the reality that (white) American women have only had the right to vote for a century until I met a woman living in the year 1876. I’ll explain. I met Louisa at Mystic Seaport- an outdoor museum in Connecticut. I first met her when I was watching a cooking demonstration in a historic house. Louisa came by and chatted with the cooking demonstrator. Before she left, she invited everyone to join her at the Seamen’s Friends building at 2:00. When she flitted away, the demonstrator said to us conspiratorially, “Louisa is such a nice woman. But be careful, I hear she advocates for women’s suffrage.” It was a perfect hook. I dutifully arrived at the appropriate building at 2:00. After Louisa’s performance, the rest of the audience left and Louisa and I were alone. “So, Louisa, I heard you have an interest in women’s suffrage,” I prompted. “I don’t know where you heard that,” she answered, looking around. She was good. She pulled me in. We started up a conversation. She told me about how unfair it was that she couldn’t vote even though she owned property and paid taxes on that property. She also talked about how difficult it was to voice her opinion, much less actively engage in the suffrage movement, in her small town. We talked about women’s suffrage, her life in Mystic, and her past experiences. My humanities moment came as we finally left the building. By this point I had started to suspend disbelief, and I wanted to leave Louisa with a sense of hope for her future. So I turned to her and told her not to give up on the dream of women’s suffrage. And then I realized that I was being ridiculous. Not because I was acting like I was actually having a conversation with a woman from 1876 (well partly because of that) but because there was a high chance that she would never actually see the right to vote in her lifetime. And that was my humanities moment. The moment when something I knew became something that I knew- white women have had the right to vote for 100 years in the country. Many people of color only gained the right to vote (in all practical ways) in living memory. This new understanding led to a shift in how I engage in civic life. But before that moment, I was regrettably one of those millenials that didn’t vote because I didn’t think my vote mattered or that I was knowledgeable enough to vote. But since that conversation, I started voting in all levels of elections partly because of the past. I vote now because of how many women fought for me to have this right. ",,"A first person interpreter at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut",,2016,"Katie Schinabeck",,,,,,votes-for-women-at-mystic-seaport,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"GSSR #gradsinthewoods19","Black History,Museums,Women's History,Women's Rights",http://humanitiesmoments.org/files/original/15/322/Suffragist_Parade_Image.jpg,Text,"Graduate Student Summer Residents 2019",1,0 "Coming Into My Feminist Consciousness",,"My Humanities Moment occurred during my Junior year in college, when I attended an evening session with Gerda Lerner, the author of The Creation of Feminist Consciousness and one of the founders of the academic field called women’s history.