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History professors and technology: Why can’t we be friends?

  • Post author:Jonathan Rees
  • Post published:May 17, 2016
  • Post category:History/Teaching/Technology
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A few days ago, blogger and podcaster extraordinaire John Fea  artfully summarized an AHA Perspectives piece about why the number of history majors has dropped nationwide: 1. The 2008 recession…

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My manifesto (at least for this year).

  • Post author:Jonathan Rees
  • Post published:January 26, 2016
  • Post category:History/Technology/Writing
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This morning, Hybrid Pedagogy published an essay that I've been working on for almost a year now. It started life as a blog post here. Then I took it to…

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He lost me at “scale.”

  • Post author:Jonathan Rees
  • Post published:July 14, 2015
  • Post category:Digital Humanities/History/Labor History/Online Courses/Teaching
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I don't know the historian Steve Mintz, but I do know he's a pioneer in putting all kinds of historical resources online.  This means he was doing what we now…

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In which I repeatedly namecheck Disney’s “Frozen.”

  • Post author:Jonathan Rees
  • Post published:March 10, 2015
  • Post category:History/Refrigeration
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Apparently, the still relatively new website "We're History" is doing very, very well.  I got asked to produce this article as a result of telling my editor there, Heather Cox…

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But The Man CAN bust our music.

  • Post author:Jonathan Rees
  • Post published:January 12, 2015
  • Post category:Adjuncts/Labor History/Music/Teaching/Technology
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As a comparatively old person, I think in albums. No song from the second side of "Abbey Road" sounds right to me unless the whole thing is played in order.…

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“How a Massachusetts man invented the global ice market”

  • Post author:Jonathan Rees
  • Post published:December 19, 2014
  • Post category:History/Refrigeration Nation
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With a title like that, it should surprise you not at all that I get quoted in this Boston Globe story. In fact, the reporter did a good enough job…

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We’re History.

  • Post author:Jonathan Rees
  • Post published:October 27, 2014
  • Post category:History/Personal/Refrigeration
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We're History is basically the successor site to the dearly departed blog of the Historical Society. However, Heather Cox Richardson (who is not the only mastermind of this thing, but…

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“Nothing is over until we decide it is!”

  • Post author:Jonathan Rees
  • Post published:September 2, 2014
  • Post category:Labor History/MOOCs
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This afternoon, I got into a Twitter conversation with Mike Caulfield: https://twitter.com/holden/status/506894579757359104 Read the whole exchange and it may look like an argument, but I've actually met Mike before so…

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