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- 2005 Distinguished Scholars
- 2005 MHS Calendar
- 2005 Summer Fellowships
- Alger given "Distinguished Librarian Award" at MLA Conference
- Article about Liz in the Missoulian
- Collaboration Links
- Family history conference Sept 7-10
- Fools Crow: One Book Montana 2004
- Gruber the Guru
- Heritage Project featured at Core of Discovery
- Heritage workshops at MSU
- How will writing, binders, displays, and presentations be assessed for Washington DC trip?
- Letters about Literature, December 4 Deadline
- MHP Teachers to meet at History Conference
- New grants from PPL
- October Conference Reminders
- Oral history video available
- Paige rolls out National Education Technology Plan
- Post-modern generator
- Radio spots: 90 second history stories
- Roundup Students Launch Local Montana Study
- Summer Fellowships
- Thematic units for oral history research
- Updated contributors list for 1910 book and online magazine
- Widdicombe presents at Working Waters Institute
Conferences and Training
- 2006 MEA/AFT Conference Strand
- 2006 MEA/AFT Conference Strand
- Center for Digital Storytelling
- Conferences and training opportunities
- Critical Thinking Conference
- Distance Learning Conference
- Family history conference Sept 7-10
- Instructions for submitting a lesson plan
- Media literacy in New Mexico
- MHP Teachers to meet at History Conference
- Roundup Montana Study 2
- Sun Valley Writers Conference
- The Real Work: Essays from the Youth Heritage Festival
- Thematic units for oral history research
- Training Evaluation
Creating Presentations
Events
- 2005 Distinguished Scholars
- 2005 MHS Calendar
- 2005 Montana Heritage Project Summer Institute Schedule
- 2005 Montana Heritage Project Summer Institute Syllabus
- 2005 Youth Heritage Festival
- 2006 Summer Teacher Institute
- 2006 Winter Summit Conference
- 2006 Youth Heritage Festival
- A Conversation about Community
- Book Festival: the art of the essay
- Film shorts
- Gruber the Guru
- Helena Festival of the Book, October 20-24
- Heritage Project featured at Core of Discovery
- How will writing, binders, displays, and presentations be assessed for Washington DC trip?
- Instructions for submitting a lesson plan
- Montana Festival of the Book, September 30-October 2, Missoula
- Montana Festival of the Book: Approaching the West through literature
- Posting final reports or creating binder texts
- Roundup Montana Study 2
- What criteria will be used to assess binders?
Summer Institute
- 2005 Montana Heritage Project Summer Institute Schedule
- 2005 Montana Heritage Project Summer Institute Syllabus
- 2006 Summer Teacher Institute
- How will writing, binders, displays, and presentations be assessed for Washington DC trip?
- Instructions for submitting a lesson plan
- What criteria will be used to assess binders?
Winter Summit Conference
Youth Heritage Festival
- 2005 Distinguished Scholars
- 2005 Youth Heritage Festival
- 2006 Youth Heritage Festival
- A Conversation about Community
- Film shorts
- How will writing, binders, displays, and presentations be assessed for Washington DC trip?
- Posting final reports or creating binder texts
- What criteria will be used to assess binders?
Expeditions
- "A sweet burning in my heart," letter to himself by Jonathan Edwards
- 1930s Bibliography for Student Reading
- 1930s Montana - Economic Condition in Agriculture
- 1930s Montana excerpts from Riding the Rails
- Asking students to bring in a family letter
- Examining a Woman's Life in Letters
- Government, business and culture
- Ideas for a "Letters" documentary
- Ideas for Valentines Day -- letters and family history
- Learning to read old handwriting
- Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 31 March - 5 April 1776
- Letter from John Steinbeck to Thom Steinbeck
- Letter from Sherwood Anderson to John Anderson
- Letters about literature
- Letters about literature
- Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians
- Letters as private literature
- Letters From Butte
- Letters to a Young Poet, number 4
- Letters to a Young Poet, number 4
- Making Sense of Letters
- Montana and Whitefish Politics in 1910
- Montana in the 1930s
- Orientation to the 1930s
- Phil Leonardi
- The "boy problem" in 1910
- The Thirties - Nickel and Dime Decade
- Understanding 1910 is key to understanding today, according to William Draves
- Using letters in writing a family history
- Using letters in writing a family history
- Veterans Data Sheet
- War Letters
Letters Project
- "A sweet burning in my heart," letter to himself by Jonathan Edwards
- Asking students to bring in a family letter
- Examining a Woman's Life in Letters
- Ideas for a "Letters" documentary
- Ideas for Valentines Day -- letters and family history
- Learning to read old handwriting
- Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 31 March - 5 April 1776
- Letter from John Steinbeck to Thom Steinbeck
- Letter from Sherwood Anderson to John Anderson
- Letters about literature
- Letters about literature
- Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians
- Letters as private literature
- Letters From Butte
- Letters to a Young Poet, number 4
- Letters to a Young Poet, number 4
- Making Sense of Letters
- Phil Leonardi
- Using letters in writing a family history
- Using letters in writing a family history
- War Letters
Historical Letters
- "A sweet burning in my heart," letter to himself by Jonathan Edwards
- Examining a Woman's Life in Letters
- Learning to read old handwriting
- Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 31 March - 5 April 1776
- Letter from John Steinbeck to Thom Steinbeck
- Letter from Sherwood Anderson to John Anderson
- Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians
- Letters to a Young Poet, number 4
- Letters to a Young Poet, number 4
1910s
- 1910 Expediton flyer for students
- 1910 wildfires brought about changes
- Montana and Whitefish Politics in 1910
- The "boy problem" in 1910
- Understanding 1910 is key to understanding today, according to William Draves
Primary Documents
1930s
- 1930s Bibliography for Student Reading
- 1930s Montana - Economic Condition in Agriculture
- 1930s Montana excerpts from Riding the Rails
- Government, business and culture
- Montana in the 1930s
- Orientation to the 1930s
- The Thirties - Nickel and Dime Decade
primary documents
1960s
- A cultural history of the early 1960s
- Character is Destiny
- Hmong Refugees: Additional Insights into the Vietnam War
- Index to Sixties Resources
- Montana Dreaming: a play about the Unabomber as a sixites icon
- Professor who came to Montana in 1969
- Teachers who focus on the Sixties eligible for program in Washington, DC
- Unabomber asked the right questions, according to Canadian professor
- Veterans Data Sheet
- Western literature in the sixties
Primary Documents
- Allen Dulles on Soviet Military Threat 1959
- Donald Duncan-Vietnam was a lie, 1966
- George Wallace Inaugural Address, 1963
- Harry Truman - The Truman Doctrine, 1947
- Index to Sixties Resources
- Jerry Rubin - Do It! 1970
- John F Kennedy on Cuban missile crisis, 1962
- Little Red Book - Sayings of Chairman Mao - 1966
- Looking Back, David Horowitz-Peter Collier, 1985
- Looking Back, Tom Hayden, 1988
- Lyndon Johnson-Why are we in Vietnam? 1965
- Malcolm X, 1964
- Martin Luther King, Jr-Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963
- SL-Globe-SDS and treason, 1965
- Tom Hayden - Learning revolutionary tactics from Columbia University protests, 1968
- Weathermen call for revolution, 1969
- William F Buckley on moral leadership at Columbia University, 1968
- Winston Churchill - Iron Curtain Speech - 1946
FAQs
- For students publishing on Heritage Online
- How do I create a bulleted list?
- How do I include a link in my post?
- How do I paste a copy of an entry from the website into a word processor without line breaks?
- How Do I Publish to the Heritage Online Magazine?
- How to post an article to the "editing workspace"
- How to post an article to the Veterans History Project
- How to syndicate your blog
- How to write a headline for an online article
- How will writing, binders, displays, and presentations be assessed for Washington DC trip?
- If you get odd characters when using "email this page"
- Instructions for submitting a lesson plan
- Notes before posting student essays on Expression Engine
- Student writing guidelines
- What are the Heritage Project's publishing rates?
- What are the payment rates for Heritage Online?
- What criteria will be used to assess binders?
- Where can I find more Place-based teaching resources?
- Why do I need to use my real name as a screen name?
Grant Information
Narrative Environment
- A narrative approach to teaching
- Leading students into engagement
- Listening as placemaking
- Media topics
- Montana teens in trouble
- Narrative environment: The Arrest and Execution of Captain J. A. Slade
- Narrative Environment: Two views of Virginia City, 1863
- Stories gone awry: teen suicide
- Teen identities are shaped by narrative environment
- The death of heroes, the recovery of the heroic
- The future of tradition
- The Narrative Environment that Constituted James Madison's Education
- Understanding others is key to narrative intelligence
- What genre is your life?
- What makes "heritage" teaching different from other teaching?
- Without moral clarity. . .
Teacher Profiles
- Beth Beaulieu autobiography from Whitefish High School
- Christa Umphrey
- Corvallis Teacher Reveals All
- Darlene Beck
- From Horseback to Riding a Desk
- Joshua Clixby (abridged version)
- Living on the Prairie
- Mary Sullivan
- Matt Porrovecchio
- Nancy Widdicombe In The Valley
- Optical Allusions
- Profile of Becky Duty
- Profile of Dale Alger of the Roundup site of the Montana Heritage Project
- Profile of Jeff Gruber
- Profile of Kari Patterson
- Profile of Nancy Brastrup
- Profile: Sarah Zook
- Profile: Dorothea M. Susag
- Renee Rasmussen
- Sarah Zook featured in Tribune
- She's Older Than Dirt -- Diehl Bio
- Tava Smathers: Profile
- Ted Richards Teacher
Newsletters
Local Research
- Documenting the Scene of a Historic Event
- Exploring History Like a "Cold Case" Detective
- Family History Centers in Montana
- Family history conference Sept 7-10
- Family History Resources
- Film shorts
- Leading students into engagement
- Learning to read old handwriting
- Links to Video in the Classroom
- Montana Folks: researching and profiling unique Montanans
- Northwest Labs recognizes Corvallis "Classroom without Walls"
- Oral history video available
- Picasa from Google
- Radio spots: 90 second history stories
- Roundup Montana Study 2
- The ALERT processes: student research in the digital age
- Veterans Data Sheet
- William Thomas grave along I-90
Documentary Photography
Family History
Oral History
Video in the Classroom
Press Releases
- 2005 Distinguished Scholars
- 2005 MHS Calendar
- 2005 Winter and Spring Programs at the Montana Historical Society
- 20th Century Montana Farming Survivors Launch the Society's Progamming Year
- A Look at Life on the Bozeman Trail
- A Wide-Open Discussion on Myron Brinig's "Wide-Open Town"
- Alger given "Distinguished Librarian Award" at MLA Conference
- Author of New Look at Montana Vigilantes speaks at Society October 7
- Early Montana TV star presents her story at the Montana Historical Society
- Election adds relevance to Society Veterans' Project
- Examining a Woman's Life in Letters
- Gruber the Guru
- Heritage Project featured at Core of Discovery
- Heritage Project featured in Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory publication
- Historic recipes featured in Montana Historical Society's 2005 calendar
- How you can involve your community in the Veterans History Project
- Learn How Contemporary Artists Paint Historic Events
- LOC Veterans History Project Highlights more Stories of Sacrifice
- Montana Folks brings fun and books to Society
- Montana Historical Society "Pages in History" Book Program Sees Red
- Montana Historical Society Conference Goes to Northwest Montana
- New "Speaking Ill of the Dead" Book Just Released
- New grants from PPL
- Northwest Labs recognizes Corvallis "Classroom without Walls"
- Oral history video available
- Paige rolls out National Education Technology Plan
- PBS invites you to be a history detective
- Radio spots: 90 second history stories
- Raphael Cristy coming to Society to talk Charlie Russell
- Remembering Montana's 1964 Flood
- Restoring the Thomas Francis Meagher Statue
- Roundup Montana Study 2
- Simms Students To Present at the Montana Historical Society
- Society's March Women's History Lectures Offer Powerful Topics and Speakers
- Steering Committee Formed for New Historical Society History Center
- The Montana Heritage Project takes standards to a new level
- Ulm Ranchers Leave Important Memories
- Unusual Photographic Treasures at the Society Illuminated
- What's wrong with NCLB
- Widdicombe presents at Working Waters Institute
Questions
Quotes
Readings
- "Roots and Branches" back in print
- Advice to high school seniors
- All tarted up
- Education and Learning Papers
- Fifth Annual Festival of the Book in Missoula
- Leading students into engagement
- Linking with kindred spirits
- Montana Folks: researching and profiling unique Montanans
- Sizer's new book is out
- Understanding 1910 is key to understanding today, according to William Draves
- Why Johnny Won't Read (Washington Post)
- William Thomas grave along I-90
Rubrics
Stories
Teaching, philosophy
- Community-centered?
- Heroes give gifts
- Is the "boy problem" related to the "underclass"
- Leading students into engagement
- Planners and Searchers
- Reforming school: now what?
- Report on community-based education
- Susag on Student Engagement
- Teachers caught in the muddle
- The death of heroes, the recovery of the heroic
- The Montana Heritage Project takes standards to a new level
- Understanding others is key to narrative intelligence
- What genre is your life?
- What makes "heritage" teaching different from other teaching?
- What's wrong with NCLB
Teaching, tips
Web Site Links
Weblogs
- Categories?
- How to post an article to the Veterans History Project
- How to syndicate your blog
- I wondered what this page was for
- If you get odd characters when using "email this page"
- Instructions for submitting a lesson plan
- Just a question
- Notes before posting student essays on Expression Engine
- Possible Uses for Blogs
- Posts will be public
- Taking student work seriously
- The Future of Expression Engine
- Try Posting
- Tutorials for publishing to the montanaheritageproject website
- Using a free html editor to compose posts without knowing html
- Using the "Entry Status"
- Ways to use blogs in the classroom
Tutorials for Web Publishing
Writing
- "Graduates no more employable than dropouts"
- A narrative approach to teaching
- Beginnings, middles and ends (for writers)
- For students publishing on Heritage Online
- Gillespie on teaching writing
- Heritage Project featured in Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory publication
- How to write a headline for an online article
- Keep it real: writing as a way of managing experience
- Kids flock to online publishing
- Montana Folks: researching and profiling unique Montanans
- Online book for teaching writing mechanics
- Outline for online writing class
- Outline for online writing class
- Prisoners of ideas
- Questions for Close Reading
- Reflection as critical thinking
- Report: National Commission on Writing
- Student writing guidelines
- Students' writing not adequate for college
- Teenagers write better than ever
- The ALERT processes: student research in the digital age
- The death of heroes, the recovery of the heroic
- The Montana Heritage Project takes standards to a new level
- The Real Work: Essays from the Youth Heritage Festival
- The skillful writer
- Trivial vs Substantive Writing
- What is writing for?
- Why teach writing in school
- Words that last
- Writing a feature article