Over at Public Books, Princeton historian Kevin Kruse interviews Grand View University (Des Moines, Iowa) historian Kevin Gannon, author of the recent Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto. Some of you may remember that Gannon, aka “The Tattooed Prof,” talked about his teaching...
Historians on Twitter have caught the attention of The New Yorker. Check out Lizzie Widdicombe’s piece “The Twitterstorians Trying to De-Trumpify U.S. History.” It covers a Twitterstorians reception at the recent meeting of the American Historical Association in New York...
Sarah Bond of the University of Iowa History Department and Kevin Gannon (aka “The Tattooed Prof”) of the Grandview University History Department help junior faculty decide if they should write for public audiences. I am glad to see the reference...
Do you have an on-campus interview coming up? Most likely you will be required to teach a class. History teaching guru Kevin Gannon, aka @thetattooedprof, offers some tips as you prepare your demonstration. Here is a taste: Plan to use...
Megan Jones of The Pingry School offers one more post from the floor of the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago. In this post, Megan reflects on her last day of the conference with a nod to the book exhibit and a...
Episode 26 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast will drop this weekend. You can find it here or at your favorite podcatcher, including ITunes, Stitcher, and Player FM. In this episode we will return to an old staple...
Things are really shaping up for Season 4 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast. Last week we dropped our first episode of Season 4. Author Kelly J. Baker joined us to talk about white supremacy, race, the KKK,...
