For the first time in six years I’m going to try something substantially new in my Western Civ course. The last time I re-wrote the course was in 1999 when I reconfigured it as part of my Carnegie Foundation research project (please excuse the ugly frames…it was 1999 and frames were way cool). In those…
History Blog Awards
At last week’s American Historical Association annual meeting the Cliopatria Awards for the best history blogs were announced. Winners are listed below. Check them out. Best Individual Blog: Mark Grimsley’s Blog Them Out of the Stone Age Best Group Blog: K. M. Lawson, Jonathan Dresner, and others, at Frog in a Well Best New Blog:…
The Future of the Course (continued)
What do you want to do when you graduate from college? That question, more than any other, drives our students’ choices about academic majors. They want jobs and even if they don’t know, exactly, which job (or career) they want, they know they want a job when they graduate. Sure, they also want to be…
The Future of the Course
This past Thursday on the Diane Rehm Show on WAMU (88.5 FM) Walter Mossberg, personal technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal made several very interesting points about the future of television that are germaine to the college course. Mossberg pointed out that TiVo, and now Apple’s delivery of individual television shows via iTunes, has…