MOCHE Munchies - April 2021

Each month, the Missouri Council for History Education will publish “MOCHE Munchies”: brief introductions to online resources and upcoming events related to history education. We hope you’ll browse and imbibe!

WHAT WE’RE READING:

  • Guess what, MOCHE munchers? The last conversation regarding Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Pulitzer Prize- winner Isabel Wilkerson has been postponed. So if you couldn’t make March 30th, you can still attend April 6th. Check the website for the Zoom link here and tell your friends! You don’t need to have attended previous discussions to join us for this one.

  • Got some creative students? The Center of the American West’s series, Historian’s Imagine: Creativity in the Craft is still going strong. This month’s guest is St. Louis’s own, Jenny Price, author of the brand new: Stop Saving the Planet! An Environmentalist Manifesto, which drops April 20,, just in time for Earth Day, y’all.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FORWARD TO:

  • There’s a lot of ways to think about the Earth, and we’re really looking forward to our 4-day summer institute: Common Ground: Farms, Cities, and Food Security During the Great Depression. We’ll pay rural and urban teachers to join us, thanks to generous sponsorship from the Library of Congress. That’s right – we’ll pay you! We included a handy application with this message because we’re thoughtful like that. Apply by April 16, and we’ll set you up for a lovely summer week.  

  • April doesn’t just mean spring time around here, my friends. It also means it’s time for the National Council for History Education Conference! It’s coming up fast -- April 8-11 – and includes some major headliners: Annette Gordon-Reed, Phil Deloria, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and Andrés Reséndez. Here’s the conference at a glance, but you’re going to want to give this online event more than that, we’re sure.

WHAT’S ON THE HORIZON FOR MAY:

  • After NCHE, you’ll be itching to share your own great ideas, we know it. So why not submit a panel for MOCHE’s October conference to be held at the beautiful Federal Reserve building in downtown St. Louis? It’s due May 7th and we attached all the juicy details.

Will Armon