Teaching Citations
Teaching the value of citation and the role in plays in making sense of the world is easier than choosing to require MLA or Chicago or deciding how many points proper citation format is worth.
The Great Halloween Hoax is back from the dead, again.
Hooking student attention with a story of a prank using new technology is too easy to pass up because it can lead them into a lesson on historical evidence and historiography
University of South Carolina’s Choice to Ignore the Past
What lessons can be found in a routine announcement from a college athletics department?
The Devil in the Documents
Even a children’s book can show you how edited quotes out of context can change your understanding of the past. It’s easy to check
The Laws of the History Universe
Did you ever think about the difference between the history you know and the history you teach? But what about the history you don’t know?
Leaving the plantation to learn more about it
There’s a lot you can learn when you search an image in a textbook. It took only a couple of minutes and good searching to get from a picture to letters written to the owner when in was originally built
Answering a DBQ or Doing History?
Can you evaluate the extent to which the United States “developed a national identity” between 1800 and 1855? If you think that’s tough – try it with the few documents the College Board gives you. Good luck!
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