Grades 9-16. This workshop presents selected primary sources from the Rockefeller Foundation holdings at the Rockefeller Archive Center. This is intended for use in facilitating a classroom exercise on the Rockefeller Foundation’s 1933-1945 refugee scholar program. This workshop enables students to imagine and grapple with the difficult choices RF officials had to make in one historical example of how foundation philanthropy has responded to humanitarian crisis.
Archival Education
Refugee Scholars
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Archival Education
Near East Relief Document Analysis Websites
Grades 4 – 8. The following unit engages students with archival material related to Near East Relief. The unit framework, primary sources, and resources can be integrated into classrooms of grades 4-8. Each lesson has student objectives that can be accomplished within 40 minute periods over the course of several weeks. The final project will be…
Archival Education
HIV/AIDS in the 1980s
Grades 10 – Graduate level/Adult education. This audiovisual media literacy educational resource focuses on video media. Videographic materials often communicate messages visually. Articulating precisely how this is done, through both visual and narrative information, requires critical media literacy skills. Through watching and analyzing these videos, students will explain underlying messages and attitudes within the videos.
New Research
New Research: Eugenics Research in China, Malaria Vaccine, Refugee Scholars, Institute of Pacific Relations
For this edition of our monthly series, records from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Office of the Messrs. Rockefeller of the Rockefeller family archives, as well as the papers of John Z. Bowers and Harold H. Loucks have been cited.