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Maps, Walls, and Digital Public History

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Mills

This coming fall I’m teaching a new course: History of the Appalachian Trail. As envisioned, the class is going to be many things at once (which is likely a structural problem). It is a conventional history of one of America’s longest national parks, it is a chance to introduce students to the basics of digital…

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Back to the Future

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Mills

It’s all but impossible for me to believe it, but 10 years ago this week I wrote my first post in this blog. And, oddly enough, this post is #500. If I were a numerologist I’m sure I could make something of that symmetry. Way back in 2005, that first post was about my attempts…

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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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History Out of Tune

Posted on February 15, 2015February 17, 2015 by Mills

If you are a regular reader of this blog, it’s not news to you that I’ve offered up some critique of the AHA’s Tuning Project. After conversing with some “Tuners” at the recent annual meeting of the AHA in New York, I remain skeptical of the “History Discipline Core” that is the key source document…

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