History education develops transferable skills and competencies, including critical rationality, design and implementation, persuasive communication, creative analysis, and collaboration. These skills align with professional and civic success, emphasizing the value of history beyond academic content.
Read MoreJoin Ray Haberski and Jason M. Kelly as they converse with veterans, active service members, citizens, and scholars about the ways that the experience of war has shaped and been shaped by Americans’ concepts of justice.
Read MoreThere are many different ways to introduce students to historiography. One of my primary tools is a "Historiography Worksheet." The purpose of the Historiography Worksheet is threefold. First, it teaches students about the complexities of historiography--as both a practice and a field of study. Second, it provides a framework for classroom discussion. Third, it offers students a standardized note-taking format that helps students develop their skills analyzing and synthesizing historical arguments.
Read MoreIt must be that time of year again. Politicians on the right are lining up to censor history— specifically, what texts can be used in the classroom. And, once again, they’re pulling out their copies of Howard Zinn, shaking them in the air, and decrying writers who challenge their triumphalist versions of U.S. history. This time it’s the president—a person who, I can say with relative confidence, has never read more than a few pull quotes from the book.
Read MoreThis essay, “The COVID-19 Oral History Project: Some Preliminary Notes from the Field” reflects on C19OH as a rapid response oral history project – how the research team conceived and implemented it, both in the field and in the classroom, and how they continue to transform it in response to practical concerns and ethical frameworks.
Read MoreFuture Remains and A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things are valuable, critical contributions to the literature on the Anthropocene—a literature that has become increasingly vast over recent years…
Read MoreThis essay offers a brief history of the commons and protest through the story of Kennington Common, relating it to contemporary debates over the Occupy Movement and the rights of assembly and protest.
Read MoreToday's episode is the second of a two-part series on correlation and causation. You can listen to them as standalone episodes, but I think that they do a good job at reinforcing each other.
Read MoreThis episode introduces the term historiography and explains its centrality to the practice of history.
Read MorePracticing History is a podcast devoted to a broad approach to studying history — from research to teaching to methodology to theory. Practicing History is particularly interested in the manifold ways that humans make their history. As such, it is concerned not only with how professionals construct histories but how we all make history anew every day – through retelling and reimagining it and by the very fact that we are ourselves historical actors.
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