The Kentucky Historical Society will host David Krugler from the University of Wisconsin Plattville for a one-day seminar examining the origins of the Cold War. The event will take place on Sept. 21 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. ET with lunch provided.
The fully-funded fellowship, offered in partnership with the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation and the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center, includes a transformative, all-expenses-paid trip to Poland in summer 2025.
While the museum may be 1,000 miles away, its award-winning education team brings the museum to thousands of students across the country each year and provides invaluable resources to educators that are adaptable to each grade.
Kentucky history teachers are invited to attend Teaching About the Holocaust, an event hosted by the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center in Skokie, Ill.
The National Women’s History Museum is offering free educational resources to amplify women’s stories.
Owen County students studied the life of an accomplished native son and worked in a collaborative writing environment to make his story known.
Ron Spriggs, a Lexington-based historian and curator of a traveling exhibit on the Tuskegee Airmen, offers speaking engagements for school assemblies in which he will present the oral history of the Tuskegee Airmen during Black History Month and throughout the year. The Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African-American military pilots who fought in World War II and their support personnel, [...]
Applications are open for The National WWII Museum Summer Teacher Institute, a professional learning opportunity for high school social studies teachers that includes a week-long seminar at the museum in New Orleans in July 2017 and a trip to Normandy, France, in July 2018. The program focuses on strategies for teaching about World War II in Europe. The lead scholar [...]
Ron Spriggs, a speaker and oral historian of the Tuskegee Airmen, offers year-round speaking engagements for school assemblies of up to 500 students per session. Spriggs focuses on two main areas that parallel the national Tuskegee Airmen organization: sustaining the legacy and history of the airmen through student lectures, speaking engagements and exhibitions; and creating programs and experiences for students [...]