History 2222 is a workshop in the art and craft of the historian.
My students engage in the big questions that have driven our discipline for thousands of years, and the challenges and opportunities we face today.
On our last day together they work in small teams to write a "rant," modelled after a famous Canadian beer commercial, about what it means to them to be historians.
Their final assignment is subtitled "On Being Neil deGrasse Tyson," and they have to write a blog post assessing both the accuracy and the sheer entertainment value of a movie, book, tv show, web series or video game that is set in a real time and place.
History 2222 is a workshop in the art and craft of the historian.
My students engage in the big questions that have driven our discipline for thousands of years, and the challenges and opportunities we face today.
On our last day together they work in small teams to write a "rant," modelled after a famous Canadian beer commercial, about what it means to them to be historians.
Their final assignment is subtitled "On Being Neil deGrasse Tyson," and they have to write a blog post assessing both the accuracy and the sheer entertainment value of a movie, book, tv show, web series or video game that is set in a real time and place.
smcmanusWe are historians
We are researchers
We are interpreters
We are storytellers
We are proud nerds
We don’t do math
We don’t know every date
We are not judges of the past
And no we don’t know why there are so many editions of Chicago
Yes we like Churchill, no he doesn’t need ten movies
We can be sociable and awkward
We can see multiple stories
We are historians and proud of it.
So I’m a history major, you may ask - what are you going to do with that? - are you planning on going into Ed? I’m not a radical left wing I don’t plan on working at a museum Not all History is Ancien
I am a historian I do contribute to society, more than just research I do care about people I am not a know it all Tweed does not represent my fashion sense I am not a socially awkward nerd I have see
I am a historian, but I am not boring I like tequila Tuesdays and drinking beer I read more than documentaries and historical texts I study history for myself to prepare for what’s coming, to learn fr