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September 11, five years later
Personal recollections Five years ago, I remember heading to class just before 10 on a Tuesday morning and stopping by the gathering of people looking at the monitor that someone had changed to CNN. Some time before, a colleague had knocked on my office door while I was screening the PBS documentary School. She was […]
More on online encyclopedias
Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi has the same question I have about encyclopedias: why still deadtree?
Domesday and depressing news
The Domesday Book is online, a wonderful boon to European history teachers everywhere. And New York teen Kiri Davis has replicated Kenneth Clark’s 1940s doll work in today’s Manhattan, with depressing results. (Jan. 24, 2014 note: You can watch Davis’s short documentary on Vimeo.) I hope it sparks additional discussion about the work of the […]
Educational historiography on Youtube
I’ve taken a few pieces from the historiography of common-school reform, mashed it up a famous pop-culture icon, and ruined it, but for instructional purposes. Oh, yes, and I’ve uploaded it to YouTube. See Version 1 starring Orestes Brownson as well as Version 2 starring Horace Mann (each 73 seconds long). Now, if only someone […]
The historians’ full employment act
ACTA has sent a letter to Arizona Governor Napolitano urging that the state require that undergraduates take history, something that is discussed in an Arizona Republic article today as well as in an ACTA blog entry. As any history department website in Texas will tell you, Texas has a core curriculum, and if I remember […]