Professional Resources
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A Dot Matrix
Charles S. Young | Jan 12, 2018
Napoleon admired the dangerous chances soldiers took for bits of ribbon. I get students to take risk... -
Are We Giving Students Something Worthwhile to Talk About?
David A. Gerber | Jan 12, 2018
I struggled for years to stimulate classroom discussion in undergraduate courses, and mostly was uns... -
Writing on the Wall
Antoinette Burton | Jan 6, 2018
If you have any doubts about the vibrancy of historical curiosity among our undergraduate majors nat... -
Discussion and Debate: What Works in Undergraduate Teaching
Mary Beth Norton | Jan 1, 2018
My first presidential column is a contribution to this month’s examination of undergraduate teaching... -
The “Third Resource”: Managing Mental Illness in Academe
Mark Grimsley | Nov 1, 2017
About one in five Americans has some form of mental illness, and this sobering figure includes acade... -
A Mind of One’s Own: Promoting Mental Health among Grad Students
Lauren N. Haslem and Jennifer L. Foray | Nov 1, 2017
Recent years have seen the proliferation of detailed and often pained first-person accounts of gradu... -
Major Renovations
Brian Domitrovic | Nov 1, 2017
How can history departments win majors and influence parents? -
Paper Plans
Elizabeth Elliott | Nov 1, 2017
The opening of classified Soviet archives following the demise of the USSR in 1991 resulted in an av... -
One Short Week in Denver
Blanca Drapeau | Oct 19, 2017
There we were. A small group of Californian undergrads, winter layers piled over our business casual... -
Historians and the Technologies of Research
Robert B. Townsend | Oct 1, 2017
Editor's Note: This article is the first of a two-part series analyzing historians’ use of digital t...
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