Some of the greatest conversations I had on the Hour of History Podcast were about the Camino de Santiago. I walked the Camino Ingles in 2018 and look forward to someday returning to Spain to walk additional routes. If you are curious about the Way of St. James, there are tons and tons of resources.… Continue reading The Camino de Santiago
Learning by Listening
Learning a language? Prepping for travel? Just interested in checking out different cultures? A great resource that I use in the classroom is radio.garden which lets you select and listen to radio stations all over the world using a global map. What do you hear? Some observations student have made in the past include the… Continue reading Learning by Listening
To Cook a Bear
I recently read the outstanding novel, To Cook a Bear, written by Mikael Niemi. It is more brutal and gruesome than the books I typically read, but it blends detective mystery around Lars Levi Laestadius, a revivalist pastor leading a movement in the arctic circle in the 1850s. It involved the Sami people who have… Continue reading To Cook a Bear
Black town and White town
Three years ago, I recorded this cities podcast about the de facto and de jure division between Indian and British life in colonial Bengal. We don’t have any formal laws here in the United States that separate towns by origin of birth, but when I run long from Moorestown to Philadelphia I pass through several… Continue reading Black town and White town
Hiroshima and Shinran
Today marks 76 years since the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and killed 100,000+ civilians. It will not be recognized at the olympic games, but a small ceremony will take place in Hiroshima. In New York City, it is possible to see a statue that survived the bombing, just 1.5 miles from… Continue reading Hiroshima and Shinran
John Locke’s Pancakes
As we get closer to the beginning of a new school year I will share some of the resources that I have used to make interesting classes in the past. I will start with the recipe for pancakes written by John Locke. This was collected by Dr. Keith Korcz at the University of Louisiana, who… Continue reading John Locke’s Pancakes
Leaving the PhD
In Fall 2019, I decided to take a leave of absence from my history PhD candidacy to search for a K-12 teaching job. In returning to K-12 education after three years in higher education, I knew how important finding the right school was and I wanted to focus all my resources on my search, which… Continue reading Leaving the PhD
A Year of Running Daily 2020-2021
Although I trained regularly for the last few years, this year I started a running streak. Beginning June 9, 2020, I did not miss a day. I kept my streak through a pandemic, a new job, and a move to a new city. Weather ranged from high humidity heat in Washington, D.C. to freezing-cold and… Continue reading A Year of Running Daily 2020-2021
Archival Images
This year is five years since I got my second masters degree. It makes seven since I started graduate studies. In that time I have been to archives in multiple countries, several states, and a number of different institutions. Some archives resulted in hundreds of photos that I have kept and categorized for future research.… Continue reading Archival Images
The End of Old Shanghai
In my conversation with James Carter, we talked about his new book Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai. It was nice to have a historian of China on the Hour of History Podcast and interesting to learn about China in the 1930s. The Shanghai International Settlement is a fascinating example of twentieth century empire… Continue reading The End of Old Shanghai