From hip hop narratives to veterans’ oral histories, and from teaching with sound to identifying bias in the archive, Local Learning works collaboratively with partners across the nation to engage, inspire, and inform learners by integrating oral history, ethnographic, and sound primary sources into classrooms through the Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program. TPS is the Library of Congress’ premier educational program, focused on helping educators enhance students’ critical thinking, analysis skills, and content knowledge using the Library’s collections of millions of digitized primary sources. The Local Learning project team will offer teaching tools and materials that engage the digitally available archival holdings of the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress alongside local and regional archival collections, bringing them into conversation with each other to create a fuller, more complex narrative of American communities, history, and people.
Confirmed speakers at the October 18th workshop include
*Lee Ann Potter, Director of Professional Learning and Outreach Initiatives at the Library of Congress
*Monica Mohindra, Director of the Veterans History Project
*Dr. View, Assistant Professor of Creative Practice in Popular Music at the Ohio State University and founder of Fire in Little Africa, a 21-track hip hop album signed to Motown Records and project that engaged primary sources from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
*Hayden Haynes (Seneca, deer clan), Director at Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center/Seneca-Iroquois National Museum
*The Local Learning TPS team! Andy Kolovos and Mary Wesley from Vermont Folklife, Autumn Brown and Sarah Milligan from Oklahoma Oral History Research Program, Ellen McHale from New York Folklore, Guha Shankar from American Folklife Center, and Lisa Rathje from Local Learning
The workshop is free for registered conference attendees of the Oral History Association or American Folklore Society meetings. Please note, even if you are registered for either OHA or AFS, we suggest you register for this workshop as seats are limited. Walk-ins will be limited to seats available. You may not receive the handouts or certificates of participation without registering in advance.
Register at https://locallearningnetwork.org/teaching-with-folk-sources