There are so many urgent—one could argue, dire—issues which members of the community of historians face. The ongoing right-wing war against public and higher education…
For a long time, I’ve been moving in the direction of ungrading. I’ve long known that grades, traditionally-defined and used, don’t reflect actual learning, and…
It’s been fifteen months since I’ve updated this blog, and yet the tut-tutting discourse around so-called “trigger warnings” is still with us. And, like almost…
What’s your college or university doing about the fall semester? This question seems more urgent now then ever, given how Dr. Anthony Fauci told a…
I was recently a guest on the Tea For Teaching podcast, and we had a great time talking about my new book, Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto,…
History is a lot of things, but perhaps nothing so much as the practice of organized forgetting. No matter what methods historians use to research,…