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The History Curriculum in 2023 (Making)

Posted on January 2, 2013January 4, 2013 by Mills

When my sons were young I spent a fair amount of time in their elementary school helping with this and that. More than once I wondered why it was that an elementary school had a science lab, but not a “history lab”? When I watched the children in the science lab what I saw was…

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The History Curriculum in 2023

Posted on January 1, 2013January 4, 2013 by Mills

In my last post I argued that if we don’t start making some substantial changes to the history curriculum, we’ll be in a world of trouble before too much longer. I’m not a fan of those who simply predict doom without offering possible solutions. Now that the semester is over and I have more than…

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Improving the Past

Posted on January 21, 2014January 21, 2014 by Mills

This semester I’m offering a new course, Improving the Past [syllabus], that is another attempt on my part to capitalize on what we’ve learned from recent research about how young people use digital media. Last year I wrote a series of posts I called The History Curriculum in 2023 in which I argued that within…

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Teaching Digital History: Beyond Tech Support

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Mills

I taught my first “digital humanities” course in the spring of 1998 when I was a visiting assistant professor at Grinnell College. My students created a “virtual archive” of primary sources, building a website that made it easy (in 1998 terms) to access the sources they placed in the archive. They wrestled with such things…

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