<p>This activity uses a restitution document and graphic organizer to help students understand who perpetrated the actions of the Holocaust, particularly as it affected the Weikers family. The Weikers family papers are held in the Detre Library and Archives at the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh. The archive document comes from the Weikers Family  collection, and the accompanying graphic organizers were created by Heinz History Center education staff. More images and documents connected with this family story are available on the <em><a href="http://www.jewishfamilieshistory.org/entry/weikers-family/">Generation to Generation: Family Stories Drawn from the Rauh Jewish Archives</a> </em>website. </p>

<p>This collection was created to share the resources created by the History Center to accompany the short film, Columbus on Trial, by filmmakers Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno. </p>

<p></p> <p>In this final History Lab of the 2019-20 school year, we will explore some fun historic images from the History Center's collections. What can we learn from looking carefully at these photographs? What do you think it would have been like to be there? Use the graphic organizer at the end to split a photograph into four parts and look even closer! </p> <p>To talk with us and learn about more historic photographs, join us for the History Lab Debrief! Visit <a href="https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/learn/history-at-home/learn-history-online">https://www.heinzhistorycenter...</a> and look for the History Lab section to find the registration link. We hope you can join us!</p>

<p><em>Pittsburgh Youth Activism e</em>xplores the history of youth activism in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania. Specific examples include Pittsburghers who participated in the 1964 Freedom Summer voter registration campaign in Mississippi and the 1968 Wilkinsburg race riots. This teaching resource includes two parts: a primary source exploration and conversation and the call to action. Be sure to click on the paper clip and/or info icon on each item to find out more about it. </p>

<p>This collection was created as part of the Civic Discourse in a Digital World teacher institute in June of 2021. It is designed to highlight how different groups who are represented in the Heinz History Center's collections have raised awareness for their issues. Their goal may have been to draw attention to an issue they cared about or to drum up support for a candidate, but they were all working toward a change that they felt was essential. </p> <p>What inspiration can we find in these sources? How do they connect to civic discourse? Are there groups still working on these issues today? </p> <p>#civicdiscourse</p>

<p dir="ltr">Civic Discourse in a Digital World institute: Day 1<br></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Using this collection, consider:</em><br></p> <ol><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">How could one or more of these objects help foster civic discourse in my classroom?</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">What kinds of questions or activities would I plan around these objects?</p></li></ol> <p dir="ltr"><em>One person in each breakout group should jot down notes to share out after. </em><br></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>#civicdiscourse<br></em></p>

<p>This collection highlights some of the key documents in the Bob Nelkin Collection of ACC-PARC Records that help us to understand the steps he and his fellow advocates took to end the "warehousing" of children and adults with disabilities in institutions. </p> <p>Formed in 1951, the ACC-PARC was a grassroots organization made up of parents of people with disabilities in the Pittsburgh area. The aspect of ACC-PARC’s daily activities most represented in these primary sources are the efforts of the advocates to investigate the treatment of individuals with disabilities at residential care facilities in Western Pennsylvania during the 1960s and 1970s.</p> <p>This Learning Lab collection showcases some of the work of ACC-PARC as they advocated for change in institutions throughout Western Pennsylvania. Each section addresses a specific step or tactic used by these advocates. Instructional materials and activities are provided throughout the collection.</p> <p></p> <p>The primary sources in this Learning Lab collection are housed at the Heinz History Center's Detre Library and Archives in Pittsburgh, PA:</p> <p><a href="https://historicpittsburgh.org/collection/nelkin-acc-parc-records" target="_blank"><strong>Bob Nelkin Collection of Allegheny County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (ACC-PARC) Records,</strong></a><strong><a href="https://historicpittsburgh.org/collection/nelkin-acc-parc-records" target="_blank"> MSS 1002, Detre Library and Archives, Heinz History Center</a>.</strong><br></p> <p>The creation of this lesson plan was underwritten by the United Way of Allegheny County.<br><br></p>

<p>The Darkest Month contains activities, primary sources, and other information to help teach students about the effect of transportation in western Pennsylvania  (be sure to click on the paper clip and/or info icon on each item to find out more about it). </p><p><br />This resource was originally created to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the Darr and Monongah coalmining disasters – two of the worst coalmining disasters in American history. Occurring in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania, and Monongah, West Virginia, these devastating mine explosions revealed the overly hazardous conditions faced by immigrant coalminers drawn to the Pittsburgh Coal Seam by the prospect of work. The story of the miners who perished in December of 1907, known at the time as the “dreadful month” because of a string of mining disasters nationwide that left nearly 3,000 miners dead, affords a long overdue opportunity to discuss the historical impact of coalmining on the greater Pittsburgh region. It also illuminates larger social history themes including the interrelationship of immigration, industry, capitalism, and organized labor. The fact that these industrial disasters occurred in 1907, the peak year of immigrant arrivals to Ellis Island, underscores the centrality of immigration to the American coalmining story. With heavy attention on ethnic life, these resources show how European immigrants modeled their Old World lives within their new industrial homes and used these institutions to survive their day to day work in an extremely dangerous industry.</p>

<p>This collection connects the 2021 National History Day theme of "Communication in History" to the history of KDKA radio station. During the early 1900s, radios were used only by amateur radio operators.  KDKA was the first commercial broadcasting station that reached the public and changed how many people would receive news and entertainment. This collection can be used as an idea for an NHD project or as a resource for an existing project.</p>

<p>This collection connects the 2018 National History Day theme of "Conflict and Compromise in History" to a selection of labor strikes that occurred in Western Pennsylvania. This region has a long history of labor strikes,  some of which led to successful negotiations, while others led to violence. The collection also includes information about the <em>Pittsburgh Survey</em> to illuminate the living and working conditions that were often the reasons that compelled workers to strike.</p> <p>These objects, images, and sources can be used to help form an idea for a project, provide a new angle on an existing project idea, or lead to new ways of including primary sources into NHD projects. The Heinz History Center blog features additional information about the <a href="http://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/blog/western-pennsylvania-history/homestead-steel-strike" target="_blank" style="background-color:rgb(63,63,63);">Homestead Strike</a> and <a href="http://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/blog/western-pennsylvania-history/picturing-protest-great-railroad-strike-1877" target="_blank" style="background-color:rgb(63,63,63);">Railroad Strike</a> images.</p> <p>#NHD2018 #NHD</p>