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The Week in Early American History
Welcome to another of The Junto‘s weekly round-ups of things that caught our eye in the rest of the Internet this week. Find the links after the jump! Continue reading
The Week in Early American History
Thanks to the United States Congress, it’s been a good week for the Founders—or a bad one, depending on your point of view. Continue reading
The Week in Early American History
Happy weekend, all…to the links! Continue reading
The Week in Early American History
In looking at the weeks ahead, I note with some chagrin
That my work remains unfinished though my lectures must begin.
And so instead of planning class, which should engage my time,
I present the Week in History, to YOU! Today! In rhyme!
The Week in Early American History
The semester is in full swing, at least in the United States (hang on, UK readers and Juntoists! It’ll be here before you know it!). And here in New England, after a brutal hot spell midweek, it seems that fall weather has finally arrived. All of which means we’ve got a busy week to review for you. Without further ado, let’s get on with the links!
The Week in Early American History
We’ll start the roundup this week by pointing readers to the recently revamped Teaching United States History blog, which featured a slew of posts over the last seven days. Be sure and check out Ben Wright’s post on teaching students the differences between academic, public and popular history and Blake Ellis’s thoughts on teaching US history in a diverse classroom. Of particular interest to (at least some) readers of The Junto will be Drew Bledsoe’s taxonomy of Civil War history students. Continue reading
The Week in Early American History
It’s not every Sunday that we get to begin this recap with a genuinely fresh proslavery argument. But this week the International Herald Tribune ran a brief column by Humayan Dar, a self-described “Islamic economist” with a PhD from Cambridge. Under the headline, “Modern slavery: how bad is bonded labour,” the essay decried “the negative perception of slavery and bonded labour,” and suggested that a legal forced-labor regime in Pakistan would “work for the mutual benefit of the parties, the employer and the worker and their families.”
The Week in Early American History
There’s a lot to get through this week, so let’s jump right into it. Continue reading
The Week in Early American History
Readers will be pleased to note that blog posts might indeed be worth something—though how much remains up in the air.
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