I’m pleased to announce that my former colleague Matt Romaniello and I will be co-hosting an NEH Summer Seminar for high school teachers here at George Mason University during the last two weeks of July 2008. The seminar–Making Sense of 1989–is designed for high school teachers who want to deepen their understanding of the momentous…
Tag: World History
More Arrests in Cambodia
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) yesterday ordered the arrest of the former Foreign Minister of the Khmer Rouge regime, Ieng Sary, for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity and of his wife, Ieng Thirith (who was Minister for Social Affairs) for Crimes Against Humanity. These arrests seem to mark an intensification…
Which Came First?
One of the most difficult things to teach budding historians is that every single primary source has to be considered from many different angles and perspectives before we can begin to make sense of that source. Of course, we need to know such things as who created it and why, when it was created, and…
Digital Campus Lucky 13
It’s hard to believe it, but Dan, Tom, and I have now been podcasting at Digital Campus for more than half a year. I know this because our 13th episode is up online and since we do one approximately every two weeks, that means it was more than half a year ago that we started….