It’s ironic (or maybe just sad) that in this, the week when we remember the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and Dachau, today’s Washington Post included a story about how the Culpeper County, Virginia public schools decided to stop assigning the full version of The Diary of Anne Frank because “a parent complained…
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New Resources for Diplomatic History
The Office of the Historian of the State Department of the United States has recently updated their website to make it much more user friendly. For the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon-Ford administrations, one can now search through the documents of the Foreign Relations of the United States series either through a search box, a map,…
The Real #1
Forget about the University of Alabama — the real number one out there turns out to be…me. Who knew? It turns out that a fellow blogger, writing at Do It Yourself Scholar, decided that the podcasts of my lectures from my course Nationalism in Eastern Europe (last given in the fall of 2007) were the…
Why Assessment Gets a Bad Name
Regular readers of this blog will know that I am actually quite supportive of the whole idea of assessment in higher education. I am convinced that we need authentic forms of longitudinal assessment of learning in all of our programs, especially undergraduate programs, that provide us some sort of reasonable picture of whether our students…