Work in Progress Instead of a European discovery of a new world, we might better consider it as a sudden and harsh encounter between two ...

As a student, I railed against textbooks and lectures. I wanted primary sources, strong monographs, discussion and debate. In addition to le...

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...

"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...