Amoebas, Sexual Reproduction, and a History Department
I have spent a significant amount of my life in faculty meetings. Time that might have been spent in meaningful activity. Hours that will never be returned to me. …
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December 2, 2019
Tear Down This Wall! – Decoding K-16
We can be as divided by invisible walls as by those made of stone. They limit our movements and deny us access to all that lies on the other…
November 12, 2019
Dumb Questions?
Readers of the February 2017 edition of The History Teacher must have been surprised to see an article by Leah Shopkow with the title “How Many Sources Do I…
October 16, 2019
Left Hand, Right Hand
In the two decades of my life between kindergarten and completing course work for my Ph.D., I had dedicated teachers from whom I learned a great deal. But I…
September 29, 2019
Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education / The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
The Shame Factories of Academia
The look of utter horror on the faces of my luncheon companions was only visible for an instant, before they reestablished their habitual control over their emotions. But in…
September 9, 2019
Beyond the Autopsy
Several years ago in a workshop in Liverpool, Gregor Novak, the founder of Just-in-Time Teaching, commented that in most courses the final exam is like an autopsy – it…
August 26, 2019
Marx and Metaphors
I am going to say one word to you, and that word will change the entire way that you are looking at the material we are reading for class this…
August 6, 2019
The Abduction of Professor X
Never was the tension between teaching and tenure so visible to me as in those moments, locked in an undergraduate apartment, as the reels of the tape recorder turned, and…
July 22, 2019
A Game of Chess
I have never been very proficient at the art of chess. The one time that I tried to remedy this lack by reading a work on the subject the…
July 8, 2019
Teaching In the Fog of War
The United States has been waged more major wars during my life time, than in any comparable period of American history. I have somehow survived World War II, Korea,…
June 21, 2019