I’m not looking forward to this, but let’s be honest, I’ll probably end up seeing it anyway. Read More
Month: December 2018
Long-term Goals and Teaching History that Matters
I’ve talked before about the biggest problem I see in my field – that we don’t know what History is and so we don’t know how to teach it. I’ve been thinking recently about how this also hurts the image of History as a field – it just doesn’t seem welcoming, useful, or enjoyable to most people. The first thing most people say to me when I tell them I’m a historian is either Oh I hated history in school, there were too many facts to memorize! or I love history, I’m great at remembering stuff! Isn’t it a huge problem that the popular conception of this field – memorizing facts – actually has nothing to do with it? Read More
Research Progress Notes – Weeks of December 3rd and 10th
I planned to post last week, but I got sidetracked by preparations for this week. Read More
Body After Baby
On being the elephant in the room… Read More
Archives, digital and analog
https://gizmodo.com/when-the-internet-archive-forgets-1830462131
In the digital age, it’s easy to forget that even records have bias. Read More
Cultural appropriation in wellness and the modernization of medieval medicine
https://www.bonappetit.com/story/wellness-influencers-indian-food
Fad wellness is more than just the fashion of health, it’s often the fashion of other cultures. Read More