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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
9/14/2020
Remote Reflections: Twice the Work and Half the Fun
by Walter L. Buenger
Online teaching is indeed twice the work, especially for a first-timer.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
4/27/2020
What Do Final Exams Mean During a Pandemic?
History professors Kevin Gannon and Christopher Jones are among the faculty members who share ways to make final exams or projects meaningful learning experiences at the end of a difficult semester.
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SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
4/24/2020
Video Killed the Teaching Star: Remote Learning and the Death of Charisma
by Jonathan Zimmerman
The history of experiments in teaching students through television should tell us remote learning won't replace in-person classes.
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3/12/2020
Updated 4/13: Historians Talk Teaching Online
Historians share tips on how to move classes online (for emergency reasons or otherwise).
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3/1/2020
For the love of history, let’s teach it better.
by Laura Redford
Let’s show students that studying the past is far more than memorizing. It can be thrilling, and can help them make more sense of the world in which they live.
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SOURCE: Time
1/31/20
How Black Lives Matter Is Changing What Students Learn During Black History Month
What started locally in Seattle in 2016, inspired by a federal investigation into the higher rate of suspensions of black students compared to their white peers, has grown into a nationwide organizing effort.
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SOURCE: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
2/1/20
The challenge of teaching black history: sifting truth, myth, bias
Featuring Morehouse College history professor Frederick Knight.
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
1/29/20
Amanda Seligman: Growing Into Teaching Career Diversity for Historians
by Amanda Seligman
Teaching Career Diversity undid my ancient assumption that a PhD in the humanities should lead to a professorship.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
1/23/20
What Happens When You Give Students Control of the Syllabus?
Featuring Leslie Lindenauer, a history professor at Western Connecticut State University.
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SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
1/21/20
Rethinking How We Train Historians
by Rita Chin
What if we designed a graduate course that accounted for the conditions of the job market and history as a discipline? What if we taught students how to undertake the work of historical scholarship in a collaborative manner that more closely resembles the way labor is organized in today’s society, both inside and outside of academia?
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SOURCE: Yes! Magazine
1/9/20
How Educators Are Rethinking The Way They Teach Immigration History
Feauting quotes from historian Greg Grandin.
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SOURCE: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
1/5/20
The Role of History Educators in a Time of Crisis: Building Bridges Between Historians and K-12 History Teachers
by Sari Beth Rosenberg
Updates and insight from a panel at the American Historical Association.
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SOURCE: Roger Williams University News
Tweeting from the Past: History Course Uses Social Media to Bring Research to Life
Associate Professor of History Autumn Quezada-Grant brings history into the modern age with a course assignment to create social media accounts for famous figures.
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12/1/2019
Losing Sight of Jefferson and Falling into Plato
by M. Andrew Holowchak
Socratic Styled Teaching in Twenty-First Century American Classrooms
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SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
11/14/19
Using Digital History in the Classroom
New to digital history? These three steps may help you incorporate #DigHist into your classroom.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
11/11/19
Black Perspectives Publishes Online Forum: "Researching, Teaching, and Embodying the Black Diaspora"
by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Crystal Moten
An introduction to the online forum and a list of the articles published as part of it so far.
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SOURCE: EdSurge
11/4/19
The Problem With How We Teach History
by Rachel Burstein
Students are still often building up to what they have been told is true, rather than finding truth on their own.
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SOURCE: BU Today
10/15/19
Historian Andrew David Teaching Impeachment during an Impeachment Inquiry
Andrew David pivots his lecture to teach about American presidential history as it unfolds.
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SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
10/7/19
American Historical Association Announces 2019 Prize Winners
Dozens of historians will be recognized for their exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects.
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SOURCE: The Orange County Register
9/19/19
Eric Gonzaba Uses T-shirts, address books to explore LGBTQ history
by Susan Gill Vardon
Dr. Gonzaba is excited about finding ways to involve his students in a project he has been working on since 2014 — Wearing Gay History, an award-winning digital mapping project that explores the global history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people through T-shirts.
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