Teaching and Learning of History

Topics

• What Even Is “History”? The past, historical accounts, and why we teach history.
• How Do We Know Anything? Primary sources, inquiry, and historical thinking concepts.
• The History of Modern History or: How Postmodernism Ruins Everything? Historical interpretation, bias, objectivity, and postmodernism.
• Thinking Like Someone Who Is Dead. Historical empathy, presentism, context, and moral judgment.
• History Is Written by the Victors? Propaganda, national narratives, textbooks, and curriculum disputes.
• EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG I. Historical myths, misconceptions, and legitimate revision.
• EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG II. Pseudohistory, conspiracy, denialism, and manufactured doubt.
• It’s Hollywood, Baby! Film and television: accuracy, entertainment, and historical understanding.
• The Documentary Is Telling You a Story Too. Editing, narration, archival footage, and authority.
• History in Public: Remembering, Repairing, Arguing. Museums, monuments, historical injustices, and debates over redress.