Historian Joshua Freeman discusses the strange and poignant experience of teaching his final semester under the pall of COVID.
Category Archive: teaching
Schools are supposed to prize creativity, but Sharon Murchie argues that standardization and poverty stand in the way of freeing all students to be creative.
A wave of wildcat strikes continues to spread across University of California campuses. They began when graduate student-workers […]
Philosopher and librarian Tony Corsentino ponders how you negotiate repugnant views in the classroom — and the courtroom.
Irony prevails when the person formerly in charge of the Empire’s security apparatus, which kidnapped and deported upwards of 2 million people under her reign, is now threatening to fire a bunch of bookworms and science enthusiasts for withholding grades.
I was in my first year or so in a PhD program when I realized something weird. A […]
While it is true that most history professors are somewhere on the left end of the political spectrum, there are a number of problematic assumptions at the heart of the discourse of objectivity that warrant further investigation.
As a new school year begins and I contemplate getting shot, I just hope it doesn’t happen this […]