Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½\u2019s Public History Center in Sanford rang in the first day of Seminole County schools Monday and hosted an open house for the community.<\/p>\n
The old-time school bell in the 1902 building\u00a0was rung by associate professor Rosalind Beiler, director of the Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ center, and Walt Griffin, Seminole County\u2019s school superintendent, to symbolize the beginning of the new school year and the collaboration of the two organizations.<\/p>\n
To reinforce the Public History Center\u2019s goal of involving the community, Beiler quoted Benjamin Franklin: \u201cTell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” The center provides hands-on educational experiences for students of all ages, serves as a research site connecting local history to global events, and promotes opportunities for learning through workshops and interactive programming.<\/p>\n
The center was just awarded a grant to show four documentaries and hold discussion forums about civil rights in America. The first film, \u201cFreedom Riders,\u201d won an Emmy in 2012 and will be shown 1 p.m. Nov. 2.<\/p>\n
Dates will be set later for \u201cThe Abolitionists,\u201d \u201cSlavery by Another Name\u201d and \u201cThe Loving Story.\u201d \u201cThe Loving Story\u201d and \u201cThe Abolitionists\u201d have been nominated for Emmys this year.<\/p>\n
The films are part of Created Equal: America\u2019s Civil Rights Struggle, a partnership initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½\u2019s Public History Center in Sanford rang in the first day of Seminole County schools Monday and hosted an open house for the community. The old-time school bell in the 1902 building\u00a0was rung by associate professor Rosalind Beiler, director of the Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ center, and Walt Griffin, Seminole County\u2019s school superintendent, to symbolize the beginning of the new school year and…","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":51815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[2545,6749,8308],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-51814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","category-community","tag-jose-fernandez","tag-rosalind-beiler","tag-walt-griffin"],"yoast_head":"\n