I wanted to get these tweets on record here at the blog. Also, some readers of the blog are not Twitter. I'm not going to go into background, but I encourage you to get up to speed here. Again, I write as a historian who has published six books, taught history for a quarter century at both the high school and college level, have worked with thousands of K-12 teachers through the Gilder-Lehrman Institute, authored a textbook on historical thinking, and currently serve … [Read more...] about What I love about James Sweet’s piece on presentism
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Why the Ph.D is Killing History
Robert Zaretsky, a history professor at the University of Houston, joins the chorus of historians lamenting the way Ph.D students are trained. Â Here is a taste of his essay at The Chronicle of Higher Education: "The Future of History."...Consider the tempo of life in graduate school: It moves at the same glacial pace as did life during the age of Phillip. Still governed by guildlike regulations and socio-professional traditions that our early-modern ancestors would recognize, … [Read more...] about Why the Ph.D is Killing History