The Safe and Fair Election Pledge
2023-05-03 19:17 UTC | TEAM DEMOCRACY INC, United States
A large majority of Americans want a healthier democracy, more collaborative governance, and elections that are both secure and widely accessible. But we often feel powerless to hold our elected officials accountable when it comes to defending our democracy and assuring safe and fair elections. But we CAN make a difference. Today, view the Team Democracy video; and learn about (and sign) the Safe and Fair Election Pledge. Then ask your elected representatives and candidates to sign it too. Let them know that earning your support at the polls depends on their commitment to support the kind of enduring, healthy, resilient, inclusive democracy that has guaranteed Americans’ liberties and freedoms for the last two and a half centuries.

Muslims of the Heartland
2023-05-03 19:17 UTC | State Historical Museum of Iowa, IA, United States
In this webinar, titled “Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made Iowa their Home,” Edward E. Curtis IV, professor and Arab American author, discussed the history of Syrian Muslim settlement in Iowa before World War I and how these immigrants made a life that was simultaneously Arab, Muslim, and American.

Ramadan in Iowa: Make Your Own Good Deed Tree
2023-05-03 19:17 UTC | State Historical Museum of Iowa, IA, United States
Have you ever heard of Iowa described as a “salad bowl?” Iowans may live together but practice different cultures, religions and holidays – including Ramadan. This Goldie at Home activity will teach you about Iowa’s unique Islamic history through primary sources. You will also make a Good Deed Tree, which incorporates the concepts of kindness, generosity and discipline that are encouraged during Ramadan.

Virtual Fieldtrip of a New Memorial to Voting Rights
2023-05-03 19:17 UTC | Better Days, United States
Follow along this virtual field trip to explore “A Path Forward,” a new memorial to voting rights history in Salt Lake City created by artists Kelsey Harrison and Jason Manley. Did you know Utah women were the first in the United States to vote under an equal suffrage law? This sculpture shares that history in the very spot where women cast their first votes in 1870. It pays homage to those first steps toward equality while reminding us of all that’s left to do to ensure that everyone has a say in our government.
Utah women’s history nonprofit Better Days presented this memorial as a gift to the State of Utah to commemorate the 19th Amendment centennial in August 2020, as well as the 150th anniversary of Utah women’s first votes and the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.

Be Washington: Play Online
2023-05-03 19:17 UTC | George Washington’s Mount Vernon, United States
Be Washington is a first-person interactive leadership experience. Come face to face with challenges that George Washington confronted as commander in chief or president in four key scenarios.

Gateway to Pride Virtual Exhibit
2023-05-03 19:17 UTC | Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, MO, United States
LGBTQIA+ communities have been contributing to St. Louis’s history for centuries. Now the “Gateway to Pride” virtual exhibit begins to uncover the rarely-shared or often untold stories of St. Louis’s LGBTQIA+ communities.
Visitors to the “Gateway to Pride” virtual exhibit get a taste of St. Louis’s fascinating LGBTQIA+ history. The interactive digital experience showcases oral history interviews, artifacts with in-depth stories, and multiple opportunities for online visitors to share their own experiences.
This virtual exhibit is a milestone step in the Missouri Historical Society’s larger Gateway to Pride Initiative. It serves as a call to action for visitors to share their stories and contribute to our growing knowledge of this often hidden history.
The virtual exhibit is optimized for the following desktop browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge, and Opera. It is also optimized for Google Chrome and Apple Safari on mobile devices.

Simulation: Respond to a Public Health Crisis
2023-05-03 19:17 UTC | iThrive Games, United States
iThrive Sim: Lives in Balance is a 35-minute role-playing simulation game that invites middle and high school students to act as government officials tasked with responding to a public health crisis over a 35-minute class period. In a civic learning experience powered by tech and online play, students explore federalism, state rights, interstate commerce, freedom of assembly, and other civil rights as they wrestle with the tension between reopening the economy and following health guidelines. With each group decision students make, they activate and nurture their social and emotional skills as they collaborate, evaluate sources, strategize, and compromise to make real-time decisions that affect how the game unfolds.

Call for Community Feedback in Quad Cities, Iowa
2023-05-03 19:17 (Pacific/Niue) | Putnam Museum and Science Center, 1717 W 12th St, Davenport, IA, 52804, United States
With support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Regional Development Authority, the Putnam Museum is in the first stage of a multi-year process to update and reinvigorate our Regional History Exhibit. Along with community partners, our goal is to ensure that all Quad Citizens are represented, and that everyone understands the contributions, struggles, successes, and heritage of all the communities that make up this region.
WE NEED YOU!
Do you have a story to share? Family photos you’d like to have copied and archived? Ideas for historic events or topics that should be included in our update?
Email us at exhibits@putnam.org with your stories, feedback, ideas of milestones in QC history we should include, and any artifacts or digital content you may want to contribute.
Over time we will use community feedback while planning for a major renovation of our regional history exhibit. Thank you!

Learn to have Better Arguments
2023-05-03 19:17 UTC | The Better Arguments Project, 2300 N Street, Washington, DC, 20037, United States
The Better Arguments Project is a national civic initiative created to help bridge divides – not by papering over those divides but by helping people have better arguments. Learn some of our methods in this guide and find out how you can apply them to your own life.

Democracy Limited: Chicago Women and the Vote
2023-05-03 19:17 UTC | Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL, United States
A century after ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, the Chicago History Museum invites visitors to explore women’s activism in Chicago to secure the right to vote—and beyond.
In this online exhibit, discover the ways women organized to challenge the status quo and how these different paths led to a mass movement for suffrage. Find out what the vote did and did not accomplish, and for whom. Connect themes of the past with the present, which remind us that while injustice and inequality persist, so do activist women.

The Declaration of Independence Around the World
2023-05-03 19:17 (Pacific/Niue) | Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Monticello, VA, United States
The words of the Declaration of Independence have influenced human and civil rights movements across the world in the more than 200 years since they were penned by Thomas Jefferson. See how these words have inspired people from countries around the globe in their own work towards freedom and equality

Created Equal
2023-05-03 19:17 UTC | Colonial Williamsburg, United States
The Declaration of Independence asserts that ‘all men are created equal’ and are endowed with certain unalienable rights – ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’. When those words were written, over 52 percent of Williamsburg’s population was enslaved. This is a special release of “Created Equal,” a museum theatre exploration of African American perspectives on the Declaration, the revolutions it inspired, and the ongoing struggle for equality and freedom in America. It first premiered live on stage at Colonial Williamsburg on July 4th, 2019.

Rainbows and Revolutions Exhibit: LGBTQ+ Coloradans
2023-05-03 19:17 UTC | History Colorado Center, 1200 Broadway, Denver, CO, 80203, United States
Experience the story of LGBTQ+ Coloradans, from fighting for equal rights to celebrating community, in a new exhibition coming to History Colorado. For more than two years, museum curators have collected oral histories, photos, and historical artifacts from Colorado’s LGBTQ+ community. This exhibition will dive deep into the struggles and successes of LGBTQ+ Coloradans and their allies who changed the cultural, business and political landscape of our state.
The Rainbows & Revolutions exhibition opens to the public on Saturday, June 4, 2022 at 10 a.m. at the History Colorado Center at 1200 Broadway, Denver, CO 80203

Our Common Purpose Conversations
2023-05-03 19:17 UTC | Library of Congress, United States
In 2021, the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress presented a series of exciting conversations to explore the nation’s civic life and ways that people from all political beliefs and social causes can build a stronger, more resilient democracy. Each conversation in the “Our Common Purpose” series was facilitated by Kluge Prize winner Danielle Allen.

Civic Renewal Conversation Guide
2023-05-03 19:17 UTC | Living Room Conversations, United States
Civic life encompasses the inﬁnite ways that people may connect and contribute to their community and society: from voting in an election or organizing a neighborhood block-party, to standing up for a just cause or supporting arts in our parks. For some time, however, many facets of civic life have been in decline. This conversation is an opportunity to reimagine our civic life. We have a chance now to embrace our interdependence and to create just and productive communities. Success depends on our ability to create spaces that foster relationships of belonging, ensuring everyone has the opportunity and motivation to contribute to a thriving civic life.

Becoming US: An Educational Resource
2023-05-03 19:17 UTC | Smithsonian National Museum of American History, United States
Becoming US is a new educational resource for high school teachers and students to learn immigration and migration history in a more accurate and inclusive way.

Gaspee: The Spark that Ignited the American Revolution
2023-05-03 19:17 (Pacific/Niue) | RI State Archives, 33 Broad Street, Providence, RI, 02903, United States
Gaspee: The Spark that Ignited the American Revolution is an exhibition at the RI State Archives that explores the attack on the HMS Gaspee, a British revenue schooner, through eye-witness accounts and period testimonies. The attack and its aftermath were a key catalyst for events that followed, including the Boston Tea Party, and eventually, full-scale revolution. The exhibition is accompanied by digital resources available on the Department of State website.

Social, Emotional, and Spiritual Renewal for Youth: A Conversation Guide
2023-05-03 19:17 UTC | Living Room Conversations, United States
When we talk about renewing our social, emotional and spiritual life, we are really talking about our mental health. Our mental health is tied to what we think about ourselves, how we connect with our family and friends, and if we feel like we belong. It is about our thoughts, feelings, and memories along with culture, early life experiences, where we live, our faith, and other factors. Mental Health and renewal of our social, emotional, and spiritual selves is critical because how we feel about ourselves and our connection to our schools, jobs, or communities influences our decisions and actions. This conversation guide is designed to help you consider your personal experiences, how you can support others, and what kind of impact we can have on a community.

"Becoming Weatherwise" Climate Science Exhibition Kickoff to the Civic Season
2023-05-03 19:17 (Pacific/Niue) | American Philosophical Society Library & Museum, 104 S. 5th Street, Philosophical Hall, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
“Becoming Weatherwise: A History of Climate Science in America” is an exhibition at the American Philosophical Society’s Museum. It explores the questions and methods that have driven the study of weather and climate in the Western world from the mid-eighteenth century through today. The exhibition highlights the importance of work by amateurs and professionals who have worked collaboratively to study weather and climate in the interest of agriculture, human health and comfort, military dominance, and simple curiosity. Celebrating both professional scientists and those who get involved in community science, “Becoming Weatherwise” promotes the scientific side of the Civic Season!

America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
2023-05-03 19:17 UTC | University of Washington Press, United States
First published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West.

No-No Boy
2023-05-03 19:17 UTC | University of Washington Press, United States
No-No Boy tells the story of Ichiro Yamada, a fictional version of the real-life “no-no boys.” Yamada answered “no” twice in a compulsory government questionnaire as to whether he would serve in the armed forces and swear loyalty to the United States. Unwilling to pledge himself to the country that interned him and his family, Ichiro earns two years in prison and the hostility of his family and community when he returns home to Seattle. As Ozeki writes, Ichiro’s “obsessive, tormented” voice subverts Japanese postwar “model-minority” stereotypes, showing a fractured community and one man’s “threnody of guilt, rage, and blame as he tries to negotiate his reentry into a shattered world.”

Welcome to ‘Asian Enough,’ Season 2
2023-05-03 19:17 UTC | Los Angeles Times, United States
From the Los Angeles Times, “Asian Enough” is a podcast about being Asian American — the joys, the complications and everything in between. In each episode hosts Jen Yamato, Johana Bhuiyan, Tracy Brown and Suhauna Hussain of The Times invite special guests to share personal stories and unpack identity on their own terms. They explore the vast diaspora across cultures, backgrounds and generations, and try to expand the ways in which being Asian American is defined.

Summer Educator Institute in Cincinnati
2023-05-03 19:17 (America/Chicago) | Harriet Beecher Stowe House, 2950 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati, OH, 45206, United States
We are participating in the Civic Season ideal by offering a free 4-day workshop to educators in the Greater Cincinnati area. Participants will experience some of our current field trip offerings first-hand, showcasing different grade levels, engage in discussion with museum educators on teaching “hard history” topics, and collaborate with K-12 colleagues.
Days 1, 2, and 4 will take place at the Harriet Beecher Stowe House. Day 3 will take place in Ripley, OH (about a 1-hour drive from Walnut Hills – carpooling may be available). Workshop sessions are free to participants and open to K-12 educators, as well as pre-service teachers. Books and materials are included. Funding is made possible through the Ohio Humanities Council. We are currently seeking funding for lunches as well.
Sessions will run 9:30 – 3:30 each day – Monday June 20 – Thursday June 23. Sign Up using the link. You will get an email confirmation. Additional instructions will be sent in mid-June. Check out our website to learn more about our other programs and tours. https://stowehousecincy.org/index.html

Museum Exhibition - "Bronzeville to Harlem: An American Story"
2023-05-03 19:17 UTC | Peoria Riverfront Museum, Peoria, IL, United States
Twenty-five years in the making, “Bronzeville to Harlem: An American Story,” created by artist Preston Jackson, is a sculptural installation comprised of hundreds of unique small bronze and steel figures, relief sculptures, automobiles, buildings, streets and a truss bridge. Originally entitled “From Bronzeville to Harlem,” the cityscape is a simultaneously playful and serious contemplation of the individual stories that made up the urban centers from places such as Peoria, Chicago’s Bronzeville and the Harlem neighborhoods of Manhattan.
This summer, the exhibition is enhanced with Archibald Motley’s, “Bronzeville at Night”, on longterm loan form Art Bridges. “In ‘Bronzeville at Night,’ we glimpse at a darkened street in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago that in the early 1900s rivaled Harlem, New York.

Museum Exhibition - "Bronzeville to Harlem: An American Story"
2023-05-03 19:17 (Pacific/Niue) | Peoria Riverfront Museum, 222 SW Washington Street, Peoria, IL, 61602, United States

Central American Roots: A Virtual Ancestry Workshop (Thursdays)
2023-05-03 19:17 UTC | Central American Historical and Ancestral Society, United States
Explore your Central American roots and learn more about your family history in the United States. Dig deep into your ancestor’s country of origin to expand your family tree. This weekly Zoom meeting at 8pm PST on Thursdays will review free online resources and tips for searching databases. Sign up and your research questions will drive the session!

History Film Forum: MLK/FBI Discussion with Sam Pollard
2023-05-03 19:17 UTC | Smithsonian National Museum of American History, United States
The History Film Forum is a monthly online series from the Smithsonian that explores history on the screen and the evolution of film as public history. The Forum returned in 2021 with the new documentary MLK/FBI, which explores the US government’s history of targeting Black activists and the contested meaning behind some of our most cherished ideals. Based on newly discovered and declassified files, the film tells the tragic story of the FBI’s surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr. Emmy Award winning director Sam Pollard and former field secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Larry Rubin, in conversation with Christopher Wilson, the History Film Forum’s executive director and curator, examined the making of MLK/FBI and the pertinent issues it spotlights.
This program was made possible through the generous support of Dan Manatt and Democracy Films.

Access Resources to Prepare For the Nation's 250th
2023-05-03 19:18 UTC | America 250 Foundation, United States
An assortment of teaching and learning resources about America and America’s history as we approach the US Semiquincentennial.

American Indian Voting Rights through History
2023-05-03 19:18 UTC | National Archives, United States
In this activity, you will analyze documents related to American Indian history and voting rights from the 1830s to the 1970s and place them in chronological order. Documents were chosen to show the length of the fight for universal suffrage for American Indians and the different types of records that relate that history.

31 Recommendations for Democracy
2023-05-03 19:18 UTC | Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship, United States
As our democracy faces immense challenges—strained institutions, fragmented civil society, economic inequality, unequal representation, a changed media ecosystem, coarsening civic culture—it’s up to all of us to take action. Read the experts’ report on 31 strategies for action.
