Civics Symbiosis

Doorstepdemocracy is an homage to the book of the same name by James H. Read

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Not every day but most days that summer

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Great scene in the original, which is really funny. Jane Fonda is terrific.

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Wayne Gannaway, The Perils of Peace, Minnesota History, Vol. 66, No. 2, More than Mines: Effects of Cluett, Peabodyˊs Arrow factories on the postwar Iron Range (SUMMER 2018), pp. 74-84

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And storytelling, particularly in this room.

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The Center for Performance and Civic Practice (CPCP) is a national resource for artists and communities working together to build civic health, equity and capacity.

Here’s the theatre side of the civic engagement equation.

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Living News is an interactive performance that dramatizes current controversial issues. The piece modernizes the Constitution, focusing on the controversial issues we face today through the stories of ordinary people. Living News introduces a variety of constitutional issues and questions, encouraging students to think about where they stand.

Seems like an effective way to engage kids with civic related issues.

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Chicago Style, snarky as it should be.

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Denzel Washington recently reunited with his childhood librarian!

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Denzel!

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Need to remember these small acts…

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ADAMS: I’m very worried that we’re losing a feel for and a commitment to history and the teaching of history. Do you think that’s happening, and, if so, what are the consequences? BURNS: I think that started when we changed from teaching history to social studies. And we completely lost civics. It isn’t just that there are three branches of government and one hundred senators. Civics is the glue of how human beings get along.

https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2016/spring/conversation/the-documentarian

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By Sherri Killins Stewart, Ed.D., BUILD Initiative Director of Systems Alignment and Integration

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The Remedy for the Spread of Fake News? History Teachers

Historical literacy, and the healthy skepticism that comes with it, provides the framework for being able to discern truth from fiction

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Humanities program brings New Haven students to Yale to study, reflect on civic life

The Humanities department debuted

“Citizens, Thinkers, Writers: Reflecting on Civic Life.”

I love this.

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“Poetry can heal…may your poetry help guide that river toward the hearts of the people - at this time,” writes U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera in a letter of support and comfort to South Florida Youth Poet Laureate Juanita Castro, in light of the recent tragedy in Orlando, Florida: http://bit.ly/1ZRaijp

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Hannah Arendt on the psychology of lying politics – penned in 1971, timelier than ever. 

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfVg6glSJzU)

Ha ha. Awesome and informative.