Following the reveal of my students’ hoaxes from this semester, Yoni Appelbaum, a correspondent for The Atlantic, wrote a very interesting piece on the course itself and the lessons we can learn for why the 2008 hoax was more successful (seemingly) than the 2012 hoaxes. Appelbaum’s piece focuses on the strength or weakness of various…
Serial Killers, Beer, and Lies About the Past
The semester being all but over, it is time to reveal the work of my students in the course Lying About the Past that I taught this semester here at George Mason University. Because my course was larger this time around, the class split into two hoax teams, each of which perpetrated their own historical…
Global Perspectives on Digital History
Today, my colleagues Peter Haber, Jan Hodel, and I (along with the indispensable help of Dan Ludington) are pleased to announce the launch of Global Perspectives on Digital History, the latest of the PressForward publications from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. Like Digital Humanities Now, Global Perspectives on Digital History aggregates and…
Milo Minderbinder University?
Back in March 2008 I wrote a long series of posts (6 posts, around 4,000 words) that considered just how the emerging free economy on the Internet might change what we are doing in higher education. The focus of that series was largely the general education curriculum, but what I wrote had, I think, larger…