LEARNING
Students to Showcase Knowledge and Creativity on National History Day
Teachers Tour the History Center
A group of educators visit the History Center during the annual Teacher’s Open House.
The History Center recently hosted an open house attended by teachers from throughout the region to kick off the 2023-24 school year. Guests interacted with museum educators and curators, toured through six floors of exhibitions, and learned more about school programs, curriculum, and resources available to them. Are you a teacher? Do you know a friend or family member who is? Stay up-to-date on the latest happenings by signing up for the History Center’s Educator eNewsletter. Learn about teacher professional development opportunities, upcoming exhibitions and events, and special field trip offerings for students.
Students present their projects at National History Day 2023.
Last March, over 250 middle and high school students filled the History Center to participate in the National History Day competition which explored the theme of “Frontiers in History: People, Places, Ideas.” Students from Allegheny, Washington, Greene, Fayette, Westmoreland, and Somerset counties presented their work to 80 volunteer judges. Join us on March 23-24 for the 2024 National History Day Competition, where students will present their projects on the theme, “Turning Points in History.” Students and teachers can register for National History Day beginning at 8 a.m. on Jan. 8, 2024. For more information, please visit heinzhistorycenter.org/learn .
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Archival Spotlight: The October 27 Archive
The Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives has launched a groundbreaking website to share archival materials and objects collected following the antisemitic attack against three congregations at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018. This ever-growing digital repository documents local and global responses to the deadliest antisemitic incident in American history including the incredible outpouring of support for Pittsburgh's Jewish community from people around Western Pa. and the world. “Each object included in the October 27 Archive represents a single response to the Oct. 27 attack. By bringing all these objects together in one place, we honor the many incredible responses to that terrible day. As this website grows in the years to come, we hope it will help people heal, connect, inspire, educate, and work together to improve the world,” said Eric Lidji, director of the Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives. Viewed together, as a collection, these thousands of objects reveal the scale of pain created on that day, as well as the vast communal effort to heal and to move forward. Visit the website at october27archive.org .
Ten Commandments and World Faiths Hike patch, Nov. 29, 2019. The October 27 Archive website, Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives.
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