I remember the first time I heard that the history department where I was working on my PhD was going to offer an introductory course called “World History.” Several of us in the TA office had a good chuckle over that one…After all it was hard enough to teach the first or second half of…
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Making the History of 1989
I’m pleased to announce that after more than two years of steady work our project team at CHNM has launched Making the History of 1989: The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. This project offers users hundreds of primary sources on the events of 1989 and the end of the Cold War in Europe, interviews…
AHA Talks January 2008
I recorded two of my talks at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Washington, D.C., January 2008. The first one is the presentation I gave at the pre-conference workshop on the intersection of teaching, research, and new media. The second one was a presentation about the 1989 project that we are working…
Undergraduate research apprenticeship
I just found out today that I’ll have an “apprentice” next semester to help me with writing about June 4, 1989. Ms. Kristin May, one of our brightest undergraduate history majors, will be paid by the University to work as my apprentice with the understanding that she will not only do her own research as…