When you think about history, you probably think about dates, events, and other boring information you were forced to memorize in school. Instead, you should think of history as medicine that can be ...

Growing up, English and history were my favorite subjects. But when classrooms were reduced to teachers’ parroted instructions and students were stuck in a rut mostly listening and taking down notes, ...

During the Fall of 2017, the History Department embarked on the History Teaching and Learning Project (HTLP), a two-year department-wide pedagogy project aimed at rethinking and improving ...

Young Indians are not often excited by their country's history, but heritage walks are a way to make learning about the past more interactive while helping to conserve historical sites. India's ...

Penn State provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. History movies, like most movies, have a huge audience in the U.S. Even Disney’s notorious 2004 version of “The Alamo” – a box ...

The problem with learning history in Vietnam isn't about how many years one must study it in school, but about how the subject is taught. My grandfather was a soldier in the Annamite Range. I used to ...