Every few months, higher education is witness to a curious ritual where one’s stance on particular pedagogical issues assumes an affect of Calvinist-style salvation or…
There are two articles in the most recent issue of the American Historical Association’s Perspectives on History that clearly demonstrate that we academic historians have failed-consistently…
Making the rounds on Twitter today was a letter from the University of Chicago (more specifically, the Dean of Students) to the incoming students of…
Every summer, I take time to reflect on the academic year that was. The classes I taught, the workshops I either facilitated or attended, what…
Early last fall, I wrote about my plans to add a fairly elaborate blogging component to my upper-level Latin American history course. This semester-long blogging…
THIS JUST IN: Distracted students are distracted! Also: sometimes there are things that distract students! And we all know what to do with things that…