Showing posts with label Tales Out of School. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tales Out of School. Show all posts
Sunday, July 06, 2014

How to Survive

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Every time I rewatch the trailer for How to Survive a Plague (2012) — and I find it compulsively rewatchable; I keep playing it in the back...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Introduction

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This semester I've been teaching an upper-level history course (called "Contemporary History") which covers the history of thi...
Tuesday, February 04, 2014

"I could hardly be expected to stultify myself by implying that Joan's history in the world ended unhappily with her execution, instead of beginning there"

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Putting together a lecture on Gay Rights in the 1970s (for my class on the history of the US since 1973), I am, of course, including a subst...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Link of the Day

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One of the signs, for me, of a really great piece of internet writing (article, blog post, whatever) is that I find myself googling to try a...
Friday, November 22, 2013

50 Years Ago Today

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Here is a short editor's note from the December 7, 1963 issue of The New Yorker .  As was their custom at the time, it was unsigned; but...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Seven Songs Per Decade: 1970s (Part 1 of 4.5)

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In the spring, I am teaching I brand-new class, on the history of the United States from 1974 - 2014.  I am currently in the process of prep...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Quote of the Day

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Courage, I seemed to think, comes to us in finite quantities, like an inheritance, and by being frugal and stashing it away and letting it ...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

50th Anniversary of March on Washington Link Round-Up

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I'm teaching my seminar on "America in the Sixties" again this semester -- but, sadly, we just began and won't get to the ...
Tuesday, May 07, 2013

American Studies 100: Cover Image Version 2.0

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Since today is the last day of my second run-through of my class American Studies 100: A History of American Culture in 21 Examples , I thou...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Your Grumpy Pedagogical Thought of the Day

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My students are engaging in the Audacity of Adequacy.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Sentences One Finds Oneself Saying During Class

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Federalist 10 is about dealing with threats from the left; Federalist 51 is about dealing with threats from the right. (PS: Yes, I know ...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Good Reading on College Pedagogy (and a few other matters)

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I came across these two essays by Adam Kotsko , and wanted to commend them to anyone working as a teacher in a college-or-later setting as r...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Tidbits, Short Takes and Links

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• Overall, the Obama win feels less like a glorious victory & more like a near-miss car collision that you're thankful to have walk...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Lines Which, I Fear, May Seem To My Students To Apply To the Text They Are Drawn From

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...which they are supposed to have read for today's class: ...in illustrating of any point touching the stirring personages and events...
Monday, September 24, 2012

You gotta FIGHT! For your RIGHT! To --

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So far this semester, I have seen these comparisons made in student papers: Coney Island is like college weekends -- a place to unwind ...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

Syllabus for American Studies 101: Myths and Paradoxes

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Last week, I posted my syllabus for my new course , an introductory course in American Studies; next up, the syllabus for my other new cour...
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Some Worries Date Back Longer Than You Think, Education Edition

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...exemplifying the whole spirit of our big colleges -- their insatiable desire for more students and more funds, their readiness to resort ...
Friday, September 14, 2012

Syllabus for American Studies 100: The History of American Culture

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As I've alluded to, but haven't yet spelled out, this year I'm teaching two introductory-level American studies courses (both th...
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Saturday, July 07, 2012

Lines in Larry Kramer's Seminal Essay "1,112 and Counting..." Which Could Be Written Today About Global Warming

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I'm teaching Larry Kramer's astonishing article, "1,112 and Counting..." , on Monday for part of a unit on AIDS we're ...
Saturday, May 05, 2012

It Seems That There Are Fashions In Student Errors Too

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This spring a fair number of students, from both of my classes, have been repeatedly using the word "advancement" when they just m...