George Mason University and the Center for History and New Media will host a celebration of Roy Rosenzweig’s life on December 9 at the GMU Law School in Arlington, Virginia. If you are able to attend, please do. If not, please go to the website we’ve created and leave your own memories of Roy.
Spend Two Weeks With Us Next Summer
I’m pleased to announce that my former colleague Matt Romaniello and I will be co-hosting an NEH Summer Seminar for high school teachers here at George Mason University during the last two weeks of July 2008. The seminar–Making Sense of 1989–is designed for high school teachers who want to deepen their understanding of the momentous…
More Arrests in Cambodia
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) yesterday ordered the arrest of the former Foreign Minister of the Khmer Rouge regime, Ieng Sary, for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity and of his wife, Ieng Thirith (who was Minister for Social Affairs) for Crimes Against Humanity. These arrests seem to mark an intensification…
Saving YouTube Video for Teaching
I’ve already written a couple of posts about how YouTube videos can be very useful teaching resources. But there are two potential problems with relying on videos from such a website. The first is that as teachers we have no control over whether those videos will be available when we want them next time around….