The Tattooed Professor – History, Teaching, and Technology with a Cust...

There are so many urgent—one could argue, dire—issues which members of the community of historians face. The ongoing right-wing war against public and higher education has intensified to the point where even the idea of teaching history honestly is a...

For a long time, I’ve been moving in the direction of ungrading. I’ve long known that grades, traditionally-defined and used, don’t reflect actual learning, and indeed often get in the way of said learning. Moreover, they harden structures of inequality...

It’s been fifteen months since I’ve updated this blog, and yet the tut-tutting discourse around so-called “trigger warnings” is still with us. And, like almost every other entry in this tedious genre, the latest iteration plays all the hits: willful...

What’s your college or university doing about the fall semester?
This question seems more urgent now then ever, given how Dr. Anthony Fauci told a Senate committee today that he is profoundly worried about the nationwide trends regarding the covid-19 virus. “We are now having 40-plus thousand new cases a day. I would...