Here’s a question that is both not very serious and not very serious at the same time. Can I bring myself to include a picture of “the Hoff” in the database of sources we are developing for the 1989 project? It is, after all, an artifact of the Cold War, just as much as the…
Tag: World History
Wiki history–a good object lesson
I’ve been writing a good bit this year about the Wikipedia as a tool for history students and teachers. Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m more sanguine than many about the possibilities of wiki-history and that I don’t dismiss the Wikipedia outright as is fashionable to do these days. This is not…
Ending Geographic Illiteracy in our Lifetime
One of the most common complaints I hear from history educators about our students is that they are so geographically illiterate. What, exactly, is meant by “illiterate” is certainly in the eyes of the beholder, but the point is well taken that our students often display a lower level of geographic literacy than we would…
1989 Online
This past week I got the news from the National Endowment for the Humanities that our grant application to create a major website on the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe was accepted. The project, Making the History of 1989. Sources and Narratives on the Fall of Communism, will be the latest installment in our…