Month: July 2007
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Brief analysis of the stories that two World War I stereoptic cards tell. The first shows dashing military formations, mounted and on foot. The second shows human remains in a muddy trench.
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The following post originally appeared on my old history blog, Clio and Me, on this date. When I went to the student coffee shop on Friday, the student at the cash register guessed my order before I could tell him what I wanted. I remarked that I had had similar…
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This following post originally appeared on my old history blog, Clio and Me, on this date. I was looking through Friedrich DĂĽrrenmatt’s The Physicists, a play I have used a few times in a survey course on modern Europe. In the back of the English translation by James Kirkup are…
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The following piece first appeared on my former teaching blog, History Survey, on this date, then moved to Clio and Me, before landing here. Do partisan politics have a place in the classroom? No. On the other hand, in a history class it is hard, even impossible to discuss many…
