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…
Tag: Historical Thinking
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…
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…
A Flipped Lesson Plan: Vietnam War Protests and Bob Begin
Some stories require a large amount of contextualization. Father Bob Begin’s story of his arrest on the steps of the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist is such a story. There are…
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….
The Importance of Oral Histories to the Master Narrative, Part I
During my initial research this summer on the intricacies of El Salvador’s Civil War, I stumbled upon historian Dr. Erik Ching’s book, Stories of Civil War in El Salvador: A Battle Over Memory. Within its 262…
Daisy Martin @ CSU
Every history and social studies major at Cleveland State University takes HIS 299: Intro to Historical Studies, a gateway course which focuses on the process of historical thinking and the transferable skills …
November 10: Great Lakes Exposition Project Fair
Visit HIS 299 “Intro to Historical Studies” students at the “Cleveland Against the World: #Allin at the Great Lakes Exposition” project fair, November 10, 2016 from 8:30-9:45 am in Michael Schwartz Library….
October 14: Migration Gallery Walk with Beth Noren
Please join us for our first Migration in Global Context public event this fall! On October 14 from 4-6 pm CSU Alum and Westlake High School Master Teacher Beth Noren will lead…
