Category Archive: Education

The Massive Missed Opportunity

Tanner Colby wants to use history to rethink liberal orthodoxy on questions of race and racism, but his […]

Incubating Scholarship and Smart Students: Teaching and Publishing at Community Colleges amidst the New Realities of Academia: Best of AHA 2014, Part 4

For Part 1 of ToM AHA 2014 coverage: Bed-Stuy, the Illuminati, and the Importance of Fungus Identification – […]

“City of Achievement”: The Making of the City of South El Monte, 1955-1976

The official seal of the City of South El Monte bears the words “City of Achievement.” Pictured on […]

The War on the War on Poverty in North Carolina

As North Carolina has recently fallen into the hands of the far right, it is worth revisiting where […]

Raging Grannies Battle for the Soul of the New South

America’s partisan political wars have come to North Carolina, as big-money donors have helped bring the most ideologically […]

The Thin End of the Wedge: Faculty House, Columbia University, and the Future of Higher Education in America

While news of the ongoing labor dispute at Columbia University’s Faculty House has gotten out—you can read about […]

Using Science Fiction to Teach History (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Distant Future)

I have been reluctant to use fiction in my courses.  This is despite the fact that my own […]

Californication: Race, Ethnicity, and Unity in Twentieth Century California

In the weeks following the 2012 presidential election, the media greeted Barack Obama’s victory with a slew of […]