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Annotations from the Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources
… archival inquiry, and the results can take many forms! "FAQ Sheets," one such output, are single-page answers to … The page below, related to My Ántonia, is an example of an FAQ Sheet exercise. Not only does this give students the … found in two to three difference sources. Image Student FAQ sheet Of course, with a whole classroom generating FAQs, …
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Annotations from the Archive: Back to School
… Slow dewy mornings give way to airless afternoons spent, if one is lucky, in languid repose in the whispering shade of a … rest of the letter, which is a part of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial collection at the National Willa Cather … And yet Cather's words are so serious that we must remind ourselves of the author: a fifteen year old girl, caught …
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NWCC Launches NEH-Funded Digital Projects
… she notes, is a resource-intensive process but an important one. "The education team here at the NWCC felt strongly … apps on the Cuseum platform. Designed to enhance guided tours for Red Cloud visitors or to stand alone as an abridged tour for Willa Cather fans around the …
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An Evening With Willa Cather
… —a peer of Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Wharton—and one of the most treasured American writers of the early 20th … century. Cather’s groundbreaking fiction ( My Ántonia , One of Ours , The Professor’s House , Death Comes for the …
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Cather Sesquicentennial
… Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are … download the National Willa Cather Center app for virtual tours . Organizations or communities that would like to … House, Red Cloud, NE Nov 8 & Nov 12 — Cather's Santa Fe: A Walking Tour , 1:00-3:30 p.m. MT, Santa Fe, NM Nov 9 — …
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Annotations from the Archives: Armistice Day
… the World War I experience and Cather’s depictions of it in One of Ours . Wherever you went in the United States, it was … and thrift. This issue of Ladies' Home Journal is just one such example from our collections. In One of Ours, …
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Reading Willa Cather
… Cather’s groundbreaking fiction (including O Pioneers! , My Ántonia , One of Ours , The Professor’s House , and Death …
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Annotations from the Archives: The End of an Era for the Chief
… from the first extant Red Cloud Chief, October 9, 1873 Volume I, No. 15, is the first surviving issue of the Red … local history or, in our case, exploring the life of Willa Cather. We know that Willa Cather held a warm place in her … a regular reader of that newspaper. Decades later as Cather Studies were just beginning, it was through those preserved …
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Short Biography of Willa Cather
… . After the publication of her first novel, Alexander’s Bridge , Cather left the magazine to focus full-time on her …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol
… Image Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol Image Willa Cather statue representing Nebraska at National Statuary … said in an interview, “I had searched for books telling about the beauty of the country I loved, its romance, and …
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