How History as Mystery Reveals Historical Thinking: A Look at Two Accounts of Finding Typhoid Mary

While the words clue, evidence, and detective might not be the first words you associate with history, the idea of history as a mystery to be solved by historian-detectives has a substantial and lively past. That is because the analogy of a historian to a detective solving a mystery is a strong one. Both historians and detectives try to answer the same question: What happened? Both work with evidence from the past to create a plausible narrative using only fragments left behind. Both engage in inferencing as a means of learning from evidence. Both are problem solvers. In this article, we look at the implications of the history-mystery analogy for educators and young readers. We argue that presenting history as mystery provides a window on historical thinking that enables readers to consider what it means to do history. That means we must consider history as an investigative process that is much more than simply remembering or chronicling past events or drawing on the words of past authorities. To do this, we first look at how historians and educators have explored the history-mystery analogy in the past. Second, we focus on establishing a lens for reading historical nonfiction mysteries with children that is based on the concepts associated with historical thinking. Third, we apply these concepts to two accounts of finding typhoid Mary -accounts that emphasize the history-mystery analogy. We conclude by making specific suggestions for using history mysteries in the classroom

DataCite Implementation Recommendations: A Report of the DataCite Task Force

This is a task force report outlining recommendations for the University of Michigan Library regarding investment in DataCite tools and policies.DataCite (http://datacite.org/) is a non-profit, international consortium whose members collaboratively address challenges of making data visible and accessible. In the United States, DataCite is represented by three organizations: the California Digital Library (CDL), the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), and the Purdue University Libraries. As an addition to the growing network of services around data in the library, the University of Michigan Library has joined DataCite as a client through the Member or Allocator Agency, Purdue University Libraries. Purdue uses California Digital Library’s EZID service (http://n2t.net/ezid) to offer DataCite Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs).http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/100249/1/DataCiteTaskForceReport.pdf-

Impact of Rheumatic Musculoskeletal Disease on Psychological Development in Adolescents and Young Adults

Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) undergo significant physiological and psychological transformations. When developmental milestones are combined with additional challenges of growing up with a chronic rheumatic musculoskeletal disease (RMD), it can increase AYA's susceptibility to psychological problems. Emotional issues in adolescence can often persist into adulthood and negatively impact future health, social, and work outcomes. This chapter summarises psychological challenges for AYAs and recommends ways for healthcare professionals (HCPs) to promote mental wellbeing in AYAs with RMD