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Reacting to the Past

#USIH 2021 Teaching Intellectual History Workshop: Reacting to the Past

Since 1998, I’ve been on the faculty of the Honors College at the University of Oklahoma. As students from every major on campus can join the Honors College, my classrooms tend to be very intellectually diverse. Students come to them with very different relationships to history in general and intellectual history in particular. So, since arriving here, I’ve looked for creative ways to teach intellectual history to students who may not otherwise be inclined to study it. Back in 2014, I stumbled upon a reference in a book review to Reacting to the Past, an innovative curriculum that teaches history Read more