Part Three of Four By Samantha Cutrara I mean … even if you thought, you wished, you prayed (in whatever way that meant to you. As R. Eric Thomas says, maybe your church...

Part Two of Four By Samantha Cutrara I mean … even if you thought, you wished, you prayed (in whatever way that meant to you. As R. Eric Thomas says, maybe your church is...

Part One of Four By Samantha Cutrara I mean … even if you thought, you wished, you prayed (in whatever way that meant to you. As R. Eric Thomas says, maybe your church is...

Previously published on the website Things I Am Fonds Of – Highlighting Archivists and Their Work on August 9, 2017 By Emily Lonie  Exciting archival publishing...

By Lindsay Gibson On May 27, 2020 I wrote the following tweet about using simulations to teach history, and was surprised when it sparked conversations, arguments, and...

By Danielle Kinsey I grew impatient with discussions of authority in the classroom years ago. It was all the rage when I was in grad school, where (not having taught very...

Melissa Salrin Head, Special Collections and Rare Books, Simon Fraser University For historians, time spent in the archives with primary sources is vital.  For students of...

By Danielle Kinsey People are coming to the “acceptance” phase of finding out that their Fall semesters are going to be online. I’ve been teaching an entirely online...

For the first time ever, The Councilor: A Journal of the Social Studies will be publishing a special issue that will bring academic articles in conversation with reflections...

So many of our colleagues have discussed, advised, and reflected on the expectations, limits, and ongoing concerns of emergency remote teaching. Because of this, it hasn’t...

By Gerjan Altenburg              The late American historian of religions, Jonathan Z. Smith stressed the importance of setting up good comparisons in assigned...

In November 2018, the Washington Post published a story with the headline, “Historians: What Kids Should Be Learning in School Right Now.” In asking this important...