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Professor emeritus of history at Indiana University. Hes an awardwinning teacher and the author of many books including eli lilly, lynching in the heartland. Race and memory in america. And slinging doughnuts for the boys and American Woman in world war ii. His most recent book is hoosiers, a new history of indiana, which is on display outside. For many years, he coedited the Indiana University press series midwestern history and culture, which included a book he edited entitled comparative hist...

As long as theyre interested in it. And then they go out and they find they do research. And they find the resources to tell them the story but also try to figure out the significance of their topics in history. So theyre going into archives. Into museums. Into libraries. And theyre sifting through primary sources, secondary sources, and then theyre thinking critically about that and why their topic was important in history as related to an annual theme. And this year is theme is triumph of trag...

And theyre sifting through primary sources, secondary sources, and thinking critically about that and why their topic was important in history, as related to the annual theme. This year, the theme is triumph and tragedy in history. So we have had conflict and compromise, taking a stand, all kinds of different angles, perspectives for kids to look at, and this year it is triumph and tragedy. So they have been choosing topics that range from indian treaties to world war ii, to helen keller, the pa...

Sources, secondary sources, and they are thinking critically about that and why their topic was important in history, as related to an annual theme. This year, the theme is triumph and tragedy in history. So we have had conflict and compromise, taking a stand, all kinds of different angles and perspectives for kids to look at, but this year it is triumph and tragedy. They have been choosing topics that range from indian treaties to world war ii, to helen keller, partition of india, you name it. ...

They find the resources to tell them the story, but also try to figure out the significance of their topics in history. So theyre going into archives, into museums, into libraries and theyre sifting through primary sources, secondary sources and theyre thinking critically about that and why their traffic was important in history as related to the annual theme and this year is triumph and tragedy and them they present their findings in different formats and one of the categories that you see behi...

Into museums, into libraries, assisting through primary sources and secondary sources, and thinking critically about that and why their topic was important in history related to an annual theme, and this year the theme is triumph and tragedy. They present things in different formats. One of the categories as you can see behind me, that is the exhibit category. Is also paper categories and there is dramatic performance, documentary or website. History day gives kids an opportunity to be creative ...

Primary sources, secondary sources, and thinking critically about that and why their topic was important in history, as related to the annual theme. This year, the theme is triumph nd tragedy in history. We have at all kinds of different angles, perspectives for kids to look at, and this year it is triumph and tragedy. So we have topics ranging from indian treaties to world war ii, to helen keller, the partition of india, you name it. Really fascinating, interesting topics, and they present find...

His most recent book is hoosiers, a new history of indiana, which is on display outside. For many years he coedited the Indiana University press series midwestern history and culture, which included a book he edited historiescomparative of the midwestern states. Jim says hes very proud, in a modest hoosier way that the midwest Mystery Association bestowed on him the Lifetime Achievement award. I have known jim many years, is many years since i was a , student, his student back at Indiana Univers...

Choose a topic in history, and that can be anything. It can be world history, local, national, state, ancient, modern, everything in between. As long as they are interested in it. They go out, they do research, and find the resources to tell them the story, but also try to figure out the significance of their topic in history. So they are going to archives, into museums, into libraries, throughre sifting primary sources, secondary sources, and thinking critically about that and why their topic w...

Program that culminates in a student competition. Students are encouraged to choose a topic in history and that can be anything, world history, local, national, state, ancient, modern, everything in between. As long they are interested in it. Then they go out and find they do research. And they find the resources to tell them the story, but also try to figure out the significance of their topics in history, so they are going into archives, into museums, into libraries, and they are sifting throu...