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Chosen to Help Improve History Teaching in the Profession

admin — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:28:21 +0000

November 28, 2012
Teaching and Learning History: Teagle Foundation to Support a New AHA Initiative

By Julia Brookins

What are the best practices for teaching history to undergrads? How can history departments better work with teaching and learning centers at their institutions? What does a graduate student in history need to know about the [...]

Q&A with UTEP’s Centennial Director

admin — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 23:53:59 +0000

The University of Texas at El Paso turns 100 years old in 2014 and will mark the occasion with an epic celebration.

Keith Erekson’s job is to make sure the party goes off without a hitch. Although wrapping a century of history into a yearlong celebration is daunting, he may be the perfect person to [...]

Politics and the History Curriculum Now Available

admin — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:14:03 +0000

Politics and the History Curriculum
The Struggle over Standards in Texas and the Nation
Edited By Keith A. Erekson

“What’s the matter with Texas? Outsiders too often dismiss it as an overgrown and ignorant child, shrouded in right-wing politics and fundamentalist religion. But that view is itself a gross caricature, as [...]

Everybody’s History Now Available

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:35:36 +0000

BOOK ALERT from the UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS

Everybody’s History: Indiana’s Lincoln Inquiry and the Quest to Reclaim a President’s Past

By Keith A. Erekson

A volume in the series Public History in Historical Perspective

$26.95 paperback, 264 pages, 12 black-and-white illus., ISBN 978-1-55849-915-7

http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/everybodys-history

To place orders: Hopkins Fulfillment [...]