“Hamilton” on Broadway According to Ester Bloom, a writer at The Atlantic, Americans love historical stories, films, narratives, and plays that meet their personal and political needs. She is right. This is why Sam Wineburg called historical thinking an “unnatural”...
I have been teaching Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave in my United States history survey course for fifteen years. It is the most teachable primary source I have ever encountered. Nearly every time I teach this...
I am sure that this will not be our last post on 12 Years a Slave. The movie is getting positive reviews, both from film critics and the historical community. Over at the Pietist Schoolman, Chris Gehrz suggests that 12 Years a...
I give a hearty amen to Beth’s complaint about the lack of good historical movies on the colonial mid-Atlantic. I would love to see a film that centered, for example, around the life of Conrad Wieser. Or how about A...
