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historical reading

What I am reading: John Ferling

John Ferling   |  July 25, 2023

Summer is the season for reading, whether re-reading old favorites or finding new ones—on your porch, in a cabin in the woods (bears optional), or at the playground or the beach. Because there have been so many wonderful essays on...

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What I am reading: John Ferling

John Ferling   |  February 17, 2023

I am working on a book on America’s Revolutionary War, so most of my reading of late has focused on that conflict. But I am a voracious and omnivorous reader and I break away from the eighteenth century when possible,...

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Teaching Reading Through Historical Sources

John Fea   |  August 17, 2019

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...

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Sam Wineburg’s Twitter Thread About Wikipedia

John Fea   |  February 21, 2019

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...

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Reading as a Graduate Student

John Fea   |  February 15, 2018

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...

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On the Loaning of Books

John Fea   |  July 17, 2017

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...

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Sam Wineburg on How to Read Like a Historian

John Fea   |  May 9, 2013

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...

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