Today I led students through some primary source readings about a lynching in our town in 1884. Then I gave them a map and let them work out that it was two blocks from campus. Then we walked there--and talked about hard #publichistory. A powerful day. #twitterstorians 2/ I wrote a couple of blog posts as I was researching the lynching, here is the first one which links to the second: northwesthistory.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-lync…

Was looking for something else and found this interesting newspaper article about a Carlisle Indian School grad who got in some trouble in Chicago in 1910. It occurs to me that the flood of digitized papers would makes new Carlisle grads research possible. newspapers.com/clip/71903629/… 2/ ...and I am down the Newspapers rabbit hole, this time searching for mentions of Carlisle in Washington state papers. First find, this 1910 condemnation of Indian boarding schools. Heartwrenching description of a Native woman whose child was kidnapped. newspapers.com/clip/71904732/…

1/ Anyone else have colleagues designing online classes who are not only making themselves a bunch of work but creating shitty classes? Here is my quick and dirty advice that you could have used last week: 2/ First, find a free online textbook. It doesn't have to be perfect. This is the core of your course. Use a print textbook only if you must.

1/ In response to some recent request, a quick thread about how I teach with my smartphone app and website for local history, @SpokaneHistoric. 2/ First of all. I did not invent Spokane Historical, it runs on @Curatescape, developed by @urbanhumanist and @ebellempire at Cleveland State University. Thanks, friends!