UCF\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 UCF 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":"UCF\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 UCF 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