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Facebook Instagram Twitter UCLA » College » Social Sciences History Public History Initiative About What We Do National Center for History in the Schools Educating Ourselves for Justice Black Public History: A Bibliography Who We Are Contact Exhibitions Living through the Great Plague of London LA Neighborhood Project Poverty in the Popular Imagination: Britain 1300-1900 Covid 19: Making History Current Projects Food Connects Us Getting Involved HistoryCorps Internships Public History Courses at UCLA NCHS Bookstore SearchThe Public History Initiative University of California, Los Angeles Apply for HistoryCorps! Our next intake will be for Fall Quarter 2024. If you are a junior or senior history major, you might consider pursuing an internship. HistoryCorps is the history department’s internship program. We place students with community partners throughout LA, including museums, archives and K-12 schools. Opportunities are available every quarter. See the HistoryCorps page for more information. Applications for fall will open in June, during fall enrollment. The Public History Initiative trains undergraduate students to be active participants in researching and communicating history. Through hands-on internships, research-focused courses, and collaboration with community partners, students learn to communicate with broad audiences and apply their historical knowledge outside of the university. We produce cutting-edge public history. Our work focuses on evidence-based and community-informed research and outreach. We contribute to history education. Through the National Center for History in the Schools, we collaborate with K-12 educators to get the most recent history research into school classrooms. History in our community Previous Next Community Partnership We collaborate with community partners. We have partnerships with cultural institutions, community organizations, and advocacy groups throughout the Los Angeles region. These partnerships are integral to our work in training students and in producing high quality, inclusive public histories. Our latest evidence-based, community-informed project, Food Connects Us,” comes from our collaboration with the UCLA History Geography Project and Los Angeles-based La Plaza de Cultura y Artes. The result of our partnership is a week-long dive into the labor and lives of essential farmworkers- understanding the history of farm-to-table” through anything from cooking demonstrations to protest artwork. For access to the videos and activities of the event, click here . HistoryCorps Our HistoryCorps program places undergraduate history students in credit-earning internships in museums, schools, cultural institutions and community organizations in the Los Angeles region. Our internships focus on preparing our students and future historians to conduct research and engage the community with a hands-on approach to practicing active evidence-based and community-informed historiographical work. Current Courses The initiative offers internships and courses to allow undergraduate students to be active agents in collecting and analyzing history and historiographical methods. We offer a variety of concentrated courses from migrant publics and political power to collecting community history for students to engage in an area or issue-specific histories. For a list of current and past courses, visit here . NCHS The National Center for History in the Schools (NCHS) , a division of the PHI, seeks to enliven the teaching of history at the university and K-12 level through publication and professional development resources and collaboration with educators. Click here to visit our bookstore. Faculty-led, Student-Fueled Projects We work at the forefront of public history research and communication. Our research is both local and international. Recent projects include LA Neighborhoods , created through our HIST 148 course that looks to rediscover the histories of lost” neighborhoods of Los Angeles and their residents. We are training our undergraduates to conduct active historiographical practices while creating forms of publicly accessible content. Taking a history from the bottom-up perspective challenges our students and the public to resituate their understanding of history using an unbiased lens. Other current projects include: imagining archives and the long history of essential work in California. Interesting links Here are some interesting links for you! Enjoy your stay :) Pages 1. Chronological Thinking 1. Chronological Thinking 2. Historical Comprehension 3. Historical Analysis and Interpretation 4. Historical Research Capabilities 5. Historical Issues-Analysis and Decision-Making BLM Situation Bookstore Contact Covid 19: Making History Current Projects Developing Standards in Grades K-4 Food Connects Us Historical Reflections on the George Floyd Protests. By Ian Price History Standards Homepage How to create a successful application How to enroll in History 195 Internship Application Internship Sites LA Neighborhood Project Living through the Great Plague of London Moving Forward Overview Poverty in the British Popular Imagination Preface Significance of History for the Educated Citizen There’s a Reason Why COVID-19 Is Killing Black and Brown Americans: It’s Called Racism United States Era 1 Use It Don’t Waste It: Vital Lessons of the Covid-19 Pandemic & Navigating Our New Normal” What We Do Who We Are World History Era 1 World History Era 2 World History Era 3 World History Era 4 World History Era 5 World History Era 6 World History Era 7 World History Era 8 World History Era 9 World History Resources 1. Chronological Thinking About this project Definition of Standards Historical Thinking Standards HistoryCorps Internships Significance of History for the Educated Citizen Topic 1 United States Era 2 2. Historical Comprehension 2. Historical Comprehension Criteria for the Development of Standards Historical Thinking Standards National Center for History in the Schools Public History Courses at UCLA Structural Racism and Public Health Topic 2 United States History Content Standards 3. Historical Analysis and Interpretation 3. Historical Analysis and Interpretation A Global Pandemic Developing Standards Topic 3 Topical Organization United States Era 3 World History Content Standards 4. Historical Research Capabilities 4. Historical Research Capabilities Climate Change Content Standards for K-4 Historical Understanding Meet Our Interns Standards FAQ Topic 4 United States Era 4 5. Historical Issues 5. 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