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Teachers and their publics (conference liveblogging!)
I’m in Minneapolis this weekend at the Social Science History Association annual meeting, currently at an early-morning session on teachers and crafting professional identities. (Session details in the full entry.)
Why I’m not a member of the American Historical Association and speech codes
Since October 7th’s Cliopatria blog entry by Ralph Luker about the anti-speech-code resolution he and David Beito are sponsoring for January 2007 meeting of the American Historical Association, I’ve been wondering how to respond. It wasn’t about the resolution itself (about which I’ll talk later) but the fact that I haven’t been an AHA member […]
Preview release of Social Explorer
Definitely head over to Social Explorer, a great historical interactive map site from Andy Beveridge and colleagues at Queens College (CUNY). Right now, it’s in preview mode, but if you want to get census-tract-level maps on a whole host of social data, definitely look at it!
On teaching as a perpetual activity
New Kid on the Hallway’s entry today on watching the (rebroadcast) Eyes on the Prize has me focusing on two thoughts: Wow. This really is evidence of how long the series has been unavailable to too many people. NK’s comments show how much education really is a matter of making sure that information and perspectives […]
Narrators of academic and political life
By Sherman Dorn on October 9, 2006
To new scholars hired into academic jobs: Remember that your colleagues are unreliable narrators. That doesn’t mean that they are necessarily vicious, mean, backstabbing folks (and I hope you don’t run into those types, because they unfortunately exist). I mean that people to whom you look for advice on institutional morays have their own sets […]
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