Earlier this month I wrote a long post on complexity and revisionism in the doing of history. Over at Milwaukee Independent, historian Heather Cox Richardson discusses the importance of rewriting history. She writes in the context of a recent revisionist...
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Carlo Ginzburg on the Study of History and the Boundaries of His Commitments
Historians know Ginzburg as the founder of the “microhistory” and the author of The Cheese and the Worms.  In a recent interview at Verso Books with Claire Zalc he talks about his career and the current state of the historical...
T.J. Stiles: “America is losing its memory”
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian T.J. Stiles has a great piece at The Washington Post on reduced funding for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). This is a must read. A taste: Every American can go to the National Archives and...
Bringing “Active Learning” Into the Classroom
Last year, as some of you may remember, I taught Pennsylvania History for the first time. At Messiah College, the Pennsylvania History course attracts a cross-section of students–history majors, public history students, and non-history majors seeking a “pluralism” general education...
Mandy McMichael Reports from the Meeting of the American Society of Church History
I am pleased to welcome Mandy McMichael to The Way of Improvement Leads Home family. Â Mandy is Assistant Professor of Religion at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama and a former Grant Wacker student at Duke Divinity School. Â She is working...