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It’s a little surprising, perhaps, but the National Weather Service has some really great historical material on its website: Memorial Web Page for the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane The Great New England Hurricane of 1938 From the Department of “It’s really more interesting than it sounds”–John Baldwin, The Government of Philip Augustus: Foundations of French Royal […]

This week's conversation on Historically Thinking is with Nick Proctor, Professor of History at Simpson College. We discuss "Reacting to the Past," the game-based pedagogy that was featured in Episode 16 in a conversation with its creator Mark Carnes. Nick has written or cowritten four "Reacting" games, and is on the "Reacting to the Past" editorial board. If you're interested in games, or teaching, or history, you'll find something interesting in this conversation.

Note: You've never heard this before, but it's an old conversation, recorded a year and a half ago and then never released. What's old can sometimes be just like new.

For Further Investigation

Nick Proctor's bio on the Simpson College website

Nicholas W. Proctor, Bathed in Blood: Hunting and Mastery in the Old South

Nicholas W. Proctor and Margaret Storey, Kentucky, 1861: Loyalty, State, and Nation

Reacting to the Past: the website

Reacting at the University of Oregon

 

This week’s conversation on Historically Thinking is with Nick Proctor, Professor of History at Simpson College. We discuss “Reacting to the Past,” the game-based pedagogy that was featured in Episode 16 in a conversation with its creator Mark Carnes. Nick has written or cowritten four “Reacting” games, and is on the “Reacting to the […]

A few links for the curious… The Empress Matilda (pictured on the left): more from the Dangerous Woman Project The New York Times covers the Straw Hat Riots Thomas Macdonough’s shipyard in Vergennes, VT Lake Champlain Maritime Museum Bernard Bailyn at Amazon William Cronon at Amazon

 

A few links for the curious...

* The Empress Matilda (pictured on the left): more from the Dangerous Woman Project

* The New York Times covers the Straw Hat Riots

* Thomas Macdonough's shipyard in Vergennes, VT

* Lake Champlain Maritime Museum

* Bernard Bailyn at Amazon

* William Cronon at Amazon

Conversations about historical knowledge and how we achieve it

Conversations about historical knowledge and how we achieve it