Old Is The New New

Last week I had the pleasure of taking part in a terrific two-day symposium on playing with, making, and teaching history, hosted by Kevin Kee and funded by The History Education Network (THEN/HIER). The Twitter hashtag was #pastplay, although as I remarked at the time, we were often too busy playing to tweedle. The first [...]

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History is too important to take seriously.

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Timothy Burke on old weird eugenics.

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Ignore what I said yesterday about the Hobbesian waltz of the A-list and the long tail. Network! Tweet! Work the room!

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Survey: History undergraduates at Oxford more sexually active than any other undergraduate major.

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Good news comes in threes.

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Suffering from Turkel withdrawal? Bill takes part in the Day of Digital History with a day in his awesome life.  I have a quick cameo, spoiling his lunch. (The orange shirt was an experiment, btw, and minutes after that photo I got a haircut.)

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Canadian wise men discover the secret of pottery: deconstructing the Civilization tech tree.

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Toasting the essential digital history blog.

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Sweet: Mills Kelly’s why-didn’t-I-think-of-that class on historical hoaxes has completed, and come clean on, their promised hoax.

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