My positive response to Sweet's @AHAhistorians column is born out of more than 2 decades of fighting for the discipline of history at a small liberal arts college. My sparring partners are... 1/2 currentpub.com/2022/08/18/the…
administrators and gen ed committees who want to eliminate required history courses and merge history departments with practitioners of other disciplines. If history is just about presentism, I have no argument in these battles. 2/2 currentpub.com/2022/08/18/the… #twitterstorians
I finally got around to reading the twitterstorm about #presentism. Have any of these critics ever taught a methods class? Why is there so little about undergraduate teaching in these critiques of Sweet’s column? #aha #whystudyhistory
How do these critics explain the difference between historical thinking and the thinking associated with other disciplines in order to save their jobs and departments and majors? #aha #presentism
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