If you want to learn a lot about history teaching, just do what I did on my summer vacation–spend two weeks in a seminar with a group of very talented high school teachers from around the country. I was fortunate enough to host fourteen high school teachers here at CHNM for an NEH Summer Seminar…
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You Have Been Warned
It’s the first day of the semester–always a happy time for me–and particularly because this semester I have two small classes to teach (a luxury for me). Because I’m teaching a MWF schedule and our students generally loathe Fridays, my usually bursting East European survey course (52 students last fall) has only 18 students. I…
How I Learned About the Holocaust
I think it’s safe to say that most American children learn about the Holocaust sometime in late elementary or early middle school (around grades 5-7). And I think it’s also safe to say that for most of them, their first introduction to the Holocaust is via the Diary of Anne Frank. My own experience was…
The End of Western Civilization as We Know It (cont’d)
This is now the sixth post in my extended reflection on how the free economy poses important challenges for American higher education. Thus far I’ve written a lot about the academic aspects of what free means for those of us in post-secondary education, so today I want to turn to the economic aspects of the…