Last January was the 40th anniversary, capture of the U.S.S. Pueblo – as commemorated then on Ed Darrell’s blog.
More recently, Ed’s added a post on the continuing repercussions of that event, even reaching to last week’s negotiated agreement between North Korea and the Bush administration over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.
This new post includes a [...]
Category Archives: history
The Pueblo, me, and Washington, DC
July 2, 2008 – 11:10 pm
¿ against teaching the controversies (or “strengths and weaknesses”) ?
June 10, 2008 – 2:16 pm
While the ridicule is well deserved, I want to take exception to something possibly implied in Curmudgeon’s response, where he says that “High school students don’t know how to reach ‘their own conclusions’ about science. That’s why they’re in school! That’s why we call them students! “
high school student finds conservative bias
April 28, 2008 – 1:35 pm
added May 2, 2008
For links to other posts on LaClair, see this post on the Five Public Opinions blog. Click here for a transcript of his acceptance speech for the FFRF 2007 Thomas Jefferson Student Activist Award, and click here for an audio recording of the speech.
In a new (April 27, 2008) Op-Ed piece in [...]
history, social memory, identity
December 30, 2007 – 3:54 pm
An inquiry posted on the xmca list asks for bibliographic references to help a student who
… wants to study how memories of significant events (in this case events during the period of political violence here during the 80s) are transmitted between the generation that experienced them and the generation following. He also would [...]
“World-class” standards for Florida?
April 27, 2007 – 5:21 pm
thanks to Michael Berson of the University of Southern Florida for this item:
http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBK5AH201F.html
The spin on Social Studies is interesting; but there’s a lot more emphasis in this article, at least, on education in World Languages – for which the rationale appears to be exclusively commercial.
Kenneth Burke on the unending conversation
February 14, 2007 – 11:00 am
In The Philosophy of Literary Form (three pages linked here), Kenneth Burke writes
In equating “dramatic” with “dialectic,” we automatically have also our perspective for the analysis of history, which is a “dramatic” process, involving dialectical oppositions. (p. 109)
We might consider how this also applies to the analysis of curriculum. Burke writes:
Howard Zinn on BookTV (video online)
February 4, 2007 – 11:50 am
On BookTV Howard Zinn talks about themes in his new book, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress. His talk includes comments that are relevant to the attack on Zinn by Lynne Cheney (discussed earlier here).
Zimmerman on Historians and the Public
December 13, 2006 – 11:03 am
Zimmerman to fellow historians: If we really want to improve historical understanding in this country, we’ll create new venues—and new incentives—for public engagement and instruction. Or we can continue to speak exclusively with each other, acting shocked—shocked!—when nobody else understands us.
