The Lepers in Our Heads
The Lepers in Our Heads Chris Momany, Adrian College Have you come here for forgiveness? Have you come to raise the dead? Have you come here to play Jesus To the Lepers in your head? Bono/U2 It is a...
Thoughts on Teaching: Why Modern Slavery Belongs in a History of Slavery
“Thoughts on Teaching: Why Modern Slavery Belongs in a History of Slavery” By Dr. Sara Lampert, University of South Dakota It was drizzling, threatening to rain, but that stopped no one. Students streamed across the quad to the coyote...
Abolitionists Unfrozen
In today’s guest post, just in time for the fall semester, David N. Gellman shares a writing assignment he uses to help students think about connections and disconnects between abolitionism in the past and the present. If all the...
Putting the Contemporary into a Comparative Slavery Course
In this guest post, Christopher Olsen, professor and chair in the history department at Indiana State University, shares his experiences with bringing contemporary slavery into the history classroom. Please share your own thoughts in the comments! Nearly twenty years...