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Teaching with Primary Sources: Playing with Failure

Odette England shares discoveries she and her students made by embracing failure.

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Teaching with Primary Sources: Benny Andrews Inspires

Elizabeth Hamilton chronicles an assignment created for the Teaching with Primary Sources workshop that had students look at artists with histories at HBCUs to find connections with their own experiences.

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Teaching with Primary Sources: Connecting Students and Contemporary Artists

Nathan Rees shares how an assignment using the Archives' Pandemic Oral History Project created connections for his students with contemporary artists and their work.

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Teaching with Primary Sources: Chiura Obata’s American Landscape Art

Michaela Rife writes about using the Chiura Obata papers to create an assignment as part of the Teaching with Primary Sources workshop.

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Washington, D.C. Headquarters and Research Center

750 9th Street, NW Victor Building, Suite 2200
Washington , DC 20001

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New York , NY 10010

New York Research Center Hours

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