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Does Playfulness Crowd Out Rigor?

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Mills

If you’ve been a reader of what I’ve been writing about teaching and learning the past several years you’ll know that I’ve been arguing that historians should make room for a more playful approach to the past in the undergraduate history curriculum. I’ve never argued that playful teaching and learning should be the only way…

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Improving the Past

Posted on January 21, 2014January 21, 2014 by Mills

This semester I’m offering a new course, Improving the Past [syllabus], that is another attempt on my part to capitalize on what we’ve learned from recent research about how young people use digital media. Last year I wrote a series of posts I called The History Curriculum in 2023 in which I argued that within…

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Clio, Eight Years On

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Mills

Way back in 2005 (about 4o Internet years), I taught our intro to digital history for graduate students, the first of two required courses for our PhD students and these days a requirement for our MA students in Art History. Then, for a variety of reasons having mostly to do with a sojourn in administration,…

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I Just Want to Move Some Shit

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Mills

One of the ways I clear my head on the weekends is by doing trail maintenance for the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club in the Prince William Forest Park. There is nothing like getting down and dirty with a chainsaw, a Pulaski, or a McLeod, to help you forget for a minute that you have so…

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