Tag Archives: Teaching
Bethel Goes “Over There”
This morning let me leave Bethel’s past for a moment and look to a small part of Bethel’s future, as it connects to one of the wars we’re studying… This coming January, my colleague Sam Mulberry and I will take a group of Bethel students to Europe for a three-week course on the history of World […]
Digital History as “Nonargument” and “Preargument” Scholarship
“Has the digital revolution transformed how we write about the past?”, ask Kristen Nawrotzki and Jack Dougherty, editors of Writing History in the Digital Age. “Have new technologies changed our essential work-craft as scholars and the way in which we think, teach, author, and publish?” Their book itself exemplifies how digital technologies may reshape publishing: it […]
Introductions: World War I and World War II
While this project is a collaboration with Fletcher — indeed, it’s probably the most collaborative research project I’ve ever attempted — we’ll each take primary responsibility for two of the four wars in Bethel’s past century of warfare. Fletcher will handle the more recent history, focusing on the Vietnam War and the War on Terror. Which leaves me with […]
Bethel at War 1914 - 2014 