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Tag: popular history
An Angry History of Science, Part 1: The Greeks didn’t invent science and all we got was their lousy math
A friend recently asked me how to explain to a group of normal, reasonable people that the ancient Greeks didn’t invent science Read More
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
Robin Writes 