BY IAN MILLER When a worn 18th century sampler is laid carefully on a padded table under soft studio lights, it tells more than a story of needle and thread, it presents…
Category: In the Classroom
Essays on connecting Social Studies content and pedagogy in the classroom.
Historical Thinking & Wikipedia Research
It’s the first week of Ancestra! Be sure to get your tickets at https://www.playhousesquare.org/events/detail/ancestra Global Interconnections students have chosen their Wikipedia articles and started the research process. Here are the articles they…
Public Narratives, Theatre, & Wikipedia
Ancestra at Playhouse Square From February 22 through March 3 Ancestra, a play directed by Holly Holsinger (CSU chair of Theatre & Dance), will be staged at Playhouse Square with a sister…
Nov 7: 2022 Map Walk at CSU!
(cross-posted from csuhistory.org) Monday, November 7, 2022 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. CSU Student Center Ballroom 2121 Euclid Avenue, Room SC 311, A-B-C-D It’s that time of year! Dr. Stephen Cory…
CFP: Cleveland Teaching Toolkit
Cleveland Teaching Toolkit Call for Participants Abstract Deadline: June 1, 2020 Essays Due June 30, 2020 Contact: Dr. Shelley Rose (shelley.rose@csuohio.edu) and Dr. Molly Buckley-Marudas (mbuckley67@csuohio.edu) Submit your 250-word (max) abstract here…
Summer 2018, Oral Histories in Retrospective
This summer I tackled two very contentious topics in Cold War history: the El Salvador Civil War and the Vietnam War. For lack of a better term, I dove headfirst into the…
Part III – My Conclusions on El Salvador’s Civil War
This Part III post is the conclusion of my “Oral Histories and the Master Narrative” series. I think many would find it advantageous to list the revelations I have uncovered from my…
The Importance of Oral Histories to the Master Narrative, Part II
In part one of this blog post, I outlined historian Dr. Erik Ching’s book, Stories of Civil War in El Salvador: A Battle over Memory. His book’s premise is that one can…
"Just Google It" Using SHEG Lesson Plans
Oh, those infamous words that we all hear in the classroom. Google is simultaneously making us smarter and lazier. I remember when I first encountered Google’s search engine in the fourth grade….
Lesson Plan: Catalyst for Activism – Frank's Story
When listening to Chris Morris’s interview of Father Bob Begin, Fr. Begin mentioned a story about one of his prior religion students, Frank. Frank’s experience greatly impacted Fr. Begin and his enthusiasm…
