As the Spring semester is drawing to a close, and me and my students are staggering moving closer to the finish line, I’ve witnessed some serious…
My first post as a Contributor to the Teaching US History blog is up today. In it, I ruminate a bit on our love-hate relationship…
If you watch sports regularly, you’re probably familiar with the concept of “East Coast Bias.” Teams from places New York, Boston, and Washington, DC, can…
Higher Education is in a Crisis. A deep, dark, existential crisis which can only be blamed on its resistance to innovative disruption and its abandonment…
At the beginning of the summer, as I settled into planning for this fall, I made the decision to jettison the traditional research paper assignment–which…
Last fall, I began teaching a section of my department’s Medieval World course, a prospect which made me equal parts nervous and excited, as I…