Grades 4-8. This unit guide provides a lesson-to-lesson foundation for teaching about primary sources, and how to evaluate and cite sources, do document analysis, and formulate and find answers to a research question.
Archival Education
How To Do Research
Explore Further
Global Engagement
Issues in Philanthropy
“A Reverse Technology Transfer:” The Ford Foundation, Grameen Bank, and Microlending in the US
In the late 20th century, the Ford Foundation’s attempt to translate microlending methods from Bangladesh to the United States revealed false assumptions about poverty, social context, and individual entrepreneurial spirit that undergirded microlending experiments.
New Research
New Research: Chinese Agricultural Science, Race in Brazil, Journalism Philanthropy, and PUMC Campus
This round-up brings together reports on agriculture in China, race relations in Brazil, foundation support for journalism, and the impact of the Japanese occupation on the Peking Union Medical College.
New Research
New Research: Sites of Conscience, Arid Climate Agriculture, African American Dance, and Lincoln Center
This latest edition of our “New Research” series especially highlights the global nature of our archives, citing records from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Trust for Mutual Understanding, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Office of the Messrs. Rockefeller, as well as from the papers of John D. Rockefeller 3rd and Edgar B. Young.