Do you want to teach your students how to think historically? Do you want to teach them to read in a deeper way? Do you want to teach them about the past? If your answer to all these questions is...
historical reading
Sam Wineburg’s Twitter Thread About Wikipedia
Some great stuff here from Sam Wineburg: Wikipedia: it’s unreliable, your students should never use it for research, ‘anyone can change it,’ right? Guess what? 1/7 — Sam Wineburg (@samwineburg) February 19, 2019 Professional fact checkers, at the nation’s leading...
Reading as a Graduate Student
Karen Wulf of the Omohundro Institute has a nice post at the Vast Early America blog on “reading” in graduate school. If you are studying for your comps and find yourself awash in a sea of monographs, this piece is...
On the Loaning of Books
Over at U.S. Intellectual History Blog, Robert Greene II has a nice piece on the experience of loaning books to his father. It reminded me of the power of ideas and the importance of making those ideas accessible to people...
Sam Wineburg on How to Read Like a Historian
Sam Wineburg‘s work on historical reading has made it to the cover of the May/June issue of Stanford Magazine. Here is a taste: Designed by the Stanford History Education Group under Professor Sam Wineburg, the website offers 87 flexible lesson...