Essential Bibliography What books and articles belong on a short list of essential readings defining history? Marc Bloch, The Historian...

Max Euwe (1901-1981) was a mathematician and the fifth official World Chess Champion. The beginning of his now classic text, The Development...

Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States has few peers among contemporary historical works. With more than 2 million c...

Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy. Attributed to Benjamin Franklin There are plenty of references to beer in Benjamin...

The prescriptions for how to create a more effective high school history course that I discussed this morning in " The American Story...

George Chalich was a high school teacher who inundated the junior class with factoids. I loved the factoids he gave us, but hated the slow p...

(This post began as a response to the first in a series concerning Sam Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts (2001) on Jo...

You’ll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and di...

Jesus is benevolence personified, an example for all men. John Adams How significant was Christianity to the American Revolution? To the ...

"Am I a professor? Then what will I say today? But if I am a teacher, what will they do today?" Lendol Calder, 1370 The New So...