…to embrace lifelong learning, exchange ideas openly, and enrich their communities. Humanities Connection is produced by Maryland Humanities for WYPR. For Maryland Humanities, I’m Sarah Weissman. Complex Histories Along the…

…well as a series of workshops and activities, engaging the public in community history. Community Story Quilts will feature biographical and community quilts made or led by Dr. Joan Gaither,…

…a diary. Her writings on scraps of paper illustrate her creative process igniting her vision of writing poems. The thoughts on the scraps of paper happened at that very moment…

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…13, 2012. Accessed March 15, 2015. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/apr/13/anne-tyler-interview Thomson, Graeme. “‘I began writing with the idea that I wanted to know what it would be like to be someone else:’ Why…

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…create a great History Day project, but always keep in mind the criteria used by judges. Paper Category Eric Keen Homeschool, Montgomery County Teacher: Christine Keen Eric’s paper, “Feeding the…

…Chautauqua page. Bibliography “Biography.” Hemingway Resource Center. 2015. Accessed June 14, 2016. http://www.lostgeneration.com/. “Hemingway’s Italy.” Ernest Hemingway Collection. 2014. Accessed June 14, 2016. www.ernesthemingwaycollection.com/ Putnam, Thomas. “Hemingway on War and…

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…diarists’ excluded works of black women in the legacy of diary writing. (The exclusion includes black men, but this essay celebrates Women’s History Month.) I desired to find diarist who…

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…range of teaching materials, online interactives, and professional development opportunities coming from the organizations that form this consortium. Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS), a complement to Maryland Humanities’ Maryland History…

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…Novel Writing Month projects! Originally launched in 1999, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo for short) is an online creative writing project whose participants are encouraged to reach 50,000 words during…

…to help their students learn how to analyze primary sources, but they are also helpful for any researcher or History Day student who might be working with a historical document….

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