Just in time for the start of the first NEH Picturing America conference at The Newark Museum: an article in the January 27, 2010 New York Times reminds us of the difficult work of historians, archeologists, and those who teach with material culture as they try to help us understand the past.
www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/arts/design/27sankofa.html?scp=1&sq=african burial ground&st=cse
Did you turn in your lesson plan?!
Teachers who attended the NEH Picturing America conferences were required to write a lesson plan or teaching activity based on the content of the conference. If you have not already done so, please email your lesson promptly to Elizabeth Aaron at ejmaaron@andromeda.rutgers.edu. Thank you!
We look forward to sharing the lessons with all our participants as well as a broader audience later this fall through our blog and the Educators' area of our Museum website.
We look forward to sharing the lessons with all our participants as well as a broader audience later this fall through our blog and the Educators' area of our Museum website.
In Preparation for the Conferences
John Updike's Lecture entitled "The Clarity of Things" What is American about American Art?, dated May 22, 2008 at the National Endowment for the Humanities is a great podcast to listen to in preparation for the NEH Picturing America conference at The Newark Museum.
At the conference, you will receive several books from the Museum, but they are not required reading for the sessions! Rather, we hope you take them home and read them on your own after the conferences. They will add to and enrich your understanding of our scholars' presentations.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Friday, January 1, 2010
HOTEL ALERT!
For conference attendees who will be staying at the Best Western Robert Treat Hotel - a participant has let us know that she secured a better rate for her hotel room from the Best Western website, www.bestwestern.com, rather than from the hotel directly as we had suggested you do. While we look into this ourselves, we STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU
PLEASE confirm your rate, call or check online with Best Western, and get a confirmation number for your rate and reservation details to secure the best deal on your hotel for the conferences!
For conference attendees who will be staying at the Best Western Robert Treat Hotel - a participant has let us know that she secured a better rate for her hotel room from the Best Western website, www.bestwestern.com, rather than from the hotel directly as we had suggested you do. While we look into this ourselves, we STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU
PLEASE confirm your rate, call or check online with Best Western, and get a confirmation number for your rate and reservation details to secure the best deal on your hotel for the conferences!
We are happy to host a welcome reception for you on the Wednesday evening that opens each NEH conference, and light breakfast will be provided all three mornings of the conference.
Newark has so many choices for those of us who love to seek out new, fun, interesting, and delicious meals...
Check out newarkrestaurantguide.info for more details on what the city has to offer.
Newark has so many choices for those of us who love to seek out new, fun, interesting, and delicious meals...
Check out newarkrestaurantguide.info for more details on what the city has to offer.
Happy New Year, Educators!
We hope you have enjoyed the holidays and wish you peace in the New Year. We have been busy over the holidays continuing to finalize plans for our 2010 conferences and look forward to working with you at The Newark Museum this year.
In the next several days, we will be posting more resource links as well as more detailed agendas for the each day of the conferences, starting with the Early America conference scheduled for February 10-13.
Please be sure to make your travel and lodging arrangements for the conferences if you have not yet done so, and be sure to contact me via email at eaaron@newarkmuseum.org if you have questions.
We hope you have enjoyed the holidays and wish you peace in the New Year. We have been busy over the holidays continuing to finalize plans for our 2010 conferences and look forward to working with you at The Newark Museum this year.
In the next several days, we will be posting more resource links as well as more detailed agendas for the each day of the conferences, starting with the Early America conference scheduled for February 10-13.
Please be sure to make your travel and lodging arrangements for the conferences if you have not yet done so, and be sure to contact me via email at eaaron@newarkmuseum.org if you have questions.
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