by Megan Lambert | Sep 22, 2008 | The Public Humanist
My favorite part of working at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is reading aloud with children. I lead The Carle’s regular storytime programs, and I’ve also traveled to hundreds of schools and libraries modeling The Whole Book Approach, an...
by Diane Garey | Sep 26, 2008 | The Public Humanist
In January of 1966, the Georgia House of Representatives voted to deny Julian Bond his fairly-won seat in that legislative body. The 26-year-old Bond was African-American, and no doubt his race played a part in the legislature’s actions. But the legislature...
by Rebecca Paynich | Sep 30, 2008 | The Public Humanist
I still remember to this day the feeling I had in class when Professor Jacobs returned the graded midterm exams. This take home exam consisted of only one question. It asked students to evaluate the first amendment rights of a described hypothetical...
by Martin Blatt | Oct 2, 2008 | The Public Humanist
Molasses, sugar, palm leaves, and cotton. Tea, coffee, rum. All of these were staples of eighteenth and nineteenth-century New England life. None of them were produced in New England, and obtaining them involved some practices we would now find morally objectionable,...
by Pleun Clara Bouricius | Oct 15, 2008 | The Public Humanist
On October 4 and 7, Mass Humanities starts its programming around the documentary, Traces of the Trade, to mark the 200th anniversary of the legislation that abolished the importation of slaves into the United States, as well as outlawed participation in the...
