I’m pleased to announce that after more than two years of steady work our project team at CHNM has launched Making the History of 1989: The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. This project offers users hundreds of primary sources on the events of 1989 and the end of the Cold War in Europe, interviews…
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Want to Learn About History Teaching?
If you want to learn a lot about history teaching, just do what I did on my summer vacation–spend two weeks in a seminar with a group of very talented high school teachers from around the country. I was fortunate enough to host fourteen high school teachers here at CHNM for an NEH Summer Seminar…
You Have Been Warned
It’s the first day of the semester–always a happy time for me–and particularly because this semester I have two small classes to teach (a luxury for me). Because I’m teaching a MWF schedule and our students generally loathe Fridays, my usually bursting East European survey course (52 students last fall) has only 18 students. I…
Why Georgia is not Czechoslovakia
Because August 20-21 was the 40th anniversary of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, the news media and a number of politicians (especially the U.S. Secretary of State) have been having a field day comparing the events of 1968 to those of 2008 in Georgia. These kinds of historical comparisons are almost always a problem…