History Unfolded by Two Educators within the Gratz College Community
Maine high school social studies teacher Heidi Omlor received her PhD in Holocaust & Genocide Studies (HGS) from Gratz College, Melrose Park, PA. New Jersey colleague and adjunct professor Barbara Krasner is a PhD candidate in the HGS program at Gratz. Separately, they each leaned into History Unfolded to meet professional and personal goals. Read More
Hello! My name is Megan and I have been the intern here at History Unfolded for the past year! Over the course of my internship I have reviewed hundreds of phenomenal submissions from citizen historians just like you. I have also encountered some amazing ways the History Unfolded community has been utilizing this project. I wanted to take the time today to highlight a few of these projects! Read More
One of the goals for History Unfolded was to provide research in support of the special exhibition Americans and the Holocaust, which opened to the public on April 23, 2018. Were we successful? Hear from the exhibition’s lead curator and historian to find out!
The story of Dr. Michael Siegel illustrates the challenge facing Americans who sought accurate news about Nazi atrocities during the 1930s and 1940s. In this guest post, David Klevan, History Unfolded’s education outreach specialist, describes what the American press got right and wrong about Dr. Siegel’s experiences in Munich during World War II.
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Jill Weiss Simins is a historian at the Indiana Historical Bureau (IHB) who works on Hoosier State Chronicles (HSC), a free database of digitized Indiana newspapers. Over the past year and a half, she has been contributing to the History Unfolded project and writing about what Hoosiers knew about the events leading up to the Holocaust for the Hoosier State Chronicles Blog. Read More
Natasha Hollenbach is the Digital Projects Librarian at the Montana Historical Society (MHS). She signed up for History Unfolded in spring 2016, and has been a strong advocate for ensuring that our database includes information from “Big Sky Country.”
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Meet Ms. Perry
Like most educators around the country, Jaymie Perry, a middle school teacher at Immaculate Heart of Mary in Grand Rapids, Michigan is not in it for the money. Or the fame. Or even the long summer vacations. Ms. Perry believes in the value of providing students with real-world educational experiences which will advance their opportunities in life. Read More
It All Started with a Tweet
One morning in early February 2016, (now former) History Unfolded project lead Elissa Frankle stumbled upon Professor Matthew Delmont’s project Black Quotidian on Twitter. Dr. Delmont was then teaching at Arizona State University.
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How did one teacher and four seniors at Mounds Park Academy in Maplewood, Minnesota answer the US Holocaust Museum’s call to go “From Memory to Action”? This is their History Unfolded story.
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In this post, Bridgewater College senior Emily Thomas describes microfilm research tips, including a very unusual method to get your library a brand-new microfilm reader! Read More
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