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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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‘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...
