For the past couple of weeks I’ve been bothered by American Historical Association President Barbara Weinstein‘s most recent “From the President” column in Perspectives, the monthly newsletter of the AHA, titled “The Case of the Incredible Shrinking Historians?“. In the essay, Weinstein is responding to a piece by Sam Tanenhaus that appeared in The New…
Tag: Peer Review
Transforming Quantitative History?
History bloggers have had a lot to say recently about social networking and what the various applications of this particular aspect of the Web 2.0 world will mean for the history business. I’ve been fairly optimistic about it all, but without a clear vision of how, exactly, social networking might really revolutionize some aspect of…
Historical Thinking Submerged
A second project I want to highlight from my graduate seminar Teaching History in the Digital Age is by Kurt Knoerl. Kurt is the owner and webmaster of the Museum of Underwater Archaeology and one of the PhD students in our program. The Museum exists entirely online, but Kurt has plans to establish a distributed…
Best Practices?
In a couple of earlier posts (1) (2) I described a project I’ve been a consultant to that is examining best practices in the teaching of introductory college courses. We held our final meeting on Monday during which we reviewed the 15 top syllabi (out of something like 115) to determine what elements of “best…