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Credits

Funding Credits

The original project is made possible through generous grants and in-kind support from AmeriCorps and was completed when Heritage Johnstown was known as the Johnstown Area Heritage Association, or JAHA. The 2023 update of these materials is made possible by EITC funding.

Teachers’ Guide Production Credits

Project Director

Richard Burkert, Executive Director, Johnstown Area Heritage Association

Project Coordinators

  • Danielle Miller, Museum Educator
  • Emily Ruby, Historian

Historical Content Research

  • Dan Ingram, Curator, Johnstown Area Heritage Association
  • Richard Burkert, Executive Director, Johnstown Area Heritage Association
  • Emily Ruby, Historian

Curriculum Design and Development

Susan K. Donley, Learning Design

Web and Graphic Design

Susan K. Donley, Learning Design

2023 update: Prime Design Solutions

Thanks to the following for permission to reprint previously copyrighted material in the production of this Teachers’ Guide:

Gibbs-Smith Publishers for excerpts from Pennsylvania, Our Home textbook, ©2005

Susan K. Donley for rights to “Reading a Photograph” and “Oral History: Asking the Right Questions” exercises in the “Tools” section.

Excerpts from Victor Heiser and Nathan Shappee

Photographs by:

United States Postal Service, John Henry postage stamp

Joe Magarac painting