This is for APWH and APEH (and seminar, I suppose you guys can show up too). By popular request I have been asked to do my Rasputin lecture via Zoom. I’ll have some book recs and documentary suggestions as well. I hope to see you guys there! Please sign into the waiting room using your […]
April 22, 2020
We’ll just slide right into Stalin from Lenin before heading westward to see how Europe is coping with the post-WWI fallout (spoiler: it’s not well). I’m not going to reinvent the wheel here, so I’d like for you guys to see the assignment that I posted on Monday for APWH on Stalin and his propaganda. […]
April 22, 2020
As an introduction, please view the following Crash Courses: World War II marks the near-midpoint of the 20th Century with one of the most atrocious periods in World History. It’s almost unfathomable to us today what a strain on resources, lives, and economies a total war like WWII was, but even deeper than that, it […]
April 21, 2020
Just a reminder, we’ll be discussing the War Poets and Art from last week, so bring your favorite pieces (or their titles, so I can share them with everyone). Topic: APEH Zoom Time: Apr 21, 2020 01:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/95935085506?pwd=c3lyWU85VkRxdTlVQ1BmUE9PUkd6Zz09 Meeting ID: 959 3508 5506 Password: 088696
April 21, 2020
Log in to AP Classroom and get to practicing. As a reminder, two new ones will be posted on Tuesday. Also, when you log in to AP Classroom, double check and see if there’s a practice FRQ section set up by the College Board. Some folks in the history classes have been reporting this – […]
April 21, 2020
Oscar Wilde is one of my favorite authors and also the man who has come up with more of my favorite quotes than anyone else in the world (“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken” is my fave). His books are always a good time, and his most famous one – The Picture of Dorian […]
April 20, 2020
A reminder: we’ll have a Zoom meeting tomorrow on the art and poetry of WWI. Vladimir Lenin’s rise to power was part German subterfuge and part horrific lies about Peace, Land, and Bread. For today, please view the second part of The Russian Revolution in Color. https://dailymotion.com/video/x7ln2i0 After you have completed viewing it, read this […]
April 22, 2020
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