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

In the wake of the presidential election this month, we’ve seen the emergence of an entire genre of post-mortem analyses, written with the blithe confidence of one determined to not let facts or principle stand in the way of a good “gotcha” moment. Every...

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...