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Tag: History of History Teaching

History on Thin Ice?

Posted on December 14, 2012December 14, 2012 by Mills

In his Opinionator blog at the New York Times yesterday, Timothy Egan argues that “history, the formal teaching and telling of it, has never been more troubled.” According to Egan, the twin forces of educators caving in to corporate demands to phase out the liberal arts and what he calls the “circular firing squad of academics…

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Remix History

Posted on May 26, 2011May 26, 2011 by Mills

An essay of mine on the ways that students are beginning to play with history using digital media, “But Mine’s Better”: Teaching History in a Remix Culture has just appeared in the May 2011 issue of The History Teacher (44/3: 369-378), and is the featured article on the journal’s website page for the new edition….

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The Future of History

Posted on November 25, 2009January 7, 2015 by Mills

I’ve been spending a lot of time of late clearing out the house my parents lived in from 1965-2009 and among the many, many boxes of junk in the attic I found some old folders of mine from (shudder) high school. Among the many things I found was an editorial I had clipped from the…

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Irony of Ironies

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Mills

This semester I am teaching my graduate course — Teaching and Learning History in the Digital Age — and on our first night of the semester we had what my older son would call “a fail.” In this case, it was a “classroom fail.” Why? Because the room to which we were assigned was not…

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