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Category: Pedagogy

Discussion about teach history in the classroom and beyond.

Historiography/Humor/Pedagogy

Grand Centennial Best Opening Vignette Contest!

Posted on January 30, 2019 by C. W. Hayford / 2 Comments

Jonathan’s “On the Opening Vignette” is so fresh and smart that the only response is to turn it into a contest: who can write the best opening...

Academia/Historiography/Pedagogy/Textbooks/Theory

Why Read Wineburg?

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Like a lot of people, I got my copy of Sam Wineburg’s new book Why Study History (When It’s Already on Your Phone) [University of Chicago Press, 201...

Books/Classics/Literature/Pedagogy/Teaching/Translation

Books with “Laozi” on the cover

Posted on October 2, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Konrad called my attention to Paul R. Goldin’s “Those Who Don’t Know Speak: Translations of the Daode Jing by People Who Do Not Know Chinese.”1 As you mig...

Atrocities/China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/Film/Historiography/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Pedagogy/War/昭和

Memory Politics and Memory Drama

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Jordan Sand’s A Year of Memory Politics in East Asia: Looking Back on the “Open Letter in Support of Historians in Japan” is immensely timely: I spent a f...

Culture/martial arts/Memory/Military/Nationalism/Pedagogy/大正/明治/昭和

Reading Note: Oleg Benesch, “Inventing the way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bushido in Modern Japan”

Posted on July 25, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

Before I praise Benesch’s book, a complaint: Oxford UP pricing is absurd. Now that’s not unusual for academic hardbacks, monographs that go to libra...

Academia/Film/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Pedagogy/US-Japan

ASPAC 2014 Abstract: Japanese Historical Process in Anglophone Cinema

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Jonathan Dresner / 8 Comments

It’s that time of year again, when procrastinators do their taxes, spring cleaning, and summer abstract writing in one weekend! My proposed paper for ASPA...

Academia/Books and Articles/Film/Foreign Views/Japan/martial arts/Memory/Pedagogy/幕末/江戸

Turnbull Book on Ako

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

Stephen Turnbull, one of the most prolific and controversial writers on Japanese military history, has written a book on the 47 Samurai incident. The Samurai Ar...

Books and Articles/Cultural/English/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/martial arts/Pedagogy/Popular Culture/US-Japan/江戸

Ninjas at Night, Dragons at Dawn: Magic Tree House does Japanese History

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Mary Pope Osborne’s Magic Tree House series is intended to educate and entertain by taking its protagonists to different times and places, real and mythic...

Academia/English/Foreign Views/globalization/Historiography/Japan/Pedagogy

Syllabus Blogging: Modern Japan and World History

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

It’s been a while since I did some syllabus blogging, but the most interesting course I was going to teach last semester didn’t come through,1 so it...

Academia/Books and Articles/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/Pedagogy

Data Visualization and Data Quality

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

The inestimable Rob MacDougall is running a course on Digital History, and even better, he’s running it more or less publicly! I’m getting all kinds...

Academia/Historiography/Japan/Medieval/Pedagogy/Premodern/Teaching/江戸

Dinner first, then dessert

Posted on January 3, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I was going to post about it here, but Another Damned Medievalist raised the question of how to deal with primary sources in a class where students lack importa...

Academia/Cultural/Historiography/Japan/Pedagogy/江戸

Lines which make me less likely to adopt a world history textbook

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

So, I got a new one in the mail, and I start scanning through, with the usual particular attention to the Japan material, and right there in the “Cultural...

Art/Japan/martial arts/Medieval/Pedagogy

Mystery Circles on Early Armor

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

What is that circular disk which early medieval samurai wear over their swords? Is it a weight, to keep it from flopping around while horseriding? That’s ...

Academia/bibliography/Current/Recent Events/Economic/General/globalization/Historiography/Japan/Nationalism/Pedagogy/Teaching

Adjusting to the new narrative

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

My China-side colleague, Alan Baumler, noted that China seems to have supplanted Japan as the go-to model for economic development. This has, he says, required ...

Academia/English/Historiography/Japan/Pedagogy

Fields and Periodization (yes, again)

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Jeff Vanke, now blogging at The Historical Society’s THS Blog, was looking for some guidance on how to properly divide up the history of the world into fi...

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