MakingHistory

Dan Allosso
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MakingHistory

Making History is the top-level thing I do, as a historian, teacher, and writer. I create content, based on either original primary research or to present the findings of other historians to my students. This channel will cover several topics (arranged in playlists) such as note-taking, research, and writing tools and techniques, history I'm teaching at Bemidji State University, research and writing projects I'm working on, Open Education techniques and resources I'm creating, and reflections on the ways that history helps us understand our current world.

  1. SEP 14

    Braiding Sweetgrass, Meeting 1

    First meeting to discuss Robin Wall Kimmerer's book, Braiding Sweetgrass. I was much more impressed with the quality of both the writing and the ideas than I had expected to be. We cover most of the first section in this talk and spend some time on the themes of gifts, thankfulness, subjectivity, wild strawberries, and nut trees.

    2h 1m

  2. SEP 12

    The Science of Reading, Meeting #6

    This is the final meeting of the discussion of Adrian John’s book, which we had on August 31st.

    2h 2m

  3. AUG 26

    Modern World History Introduction

    MakingHistory

    36 min

  4. AUG 26

    US History 2, Chapter 1

    The first unit of my Fall 2024 US History 2 course, titled "Capital and Labor".

    1h 2m

  5. AUG 8

    1875-Proposed Intervention in Cuba

    Primary Source Excerpt

    9 min

  6. AUG 3

    Science of Reading Meeting #2

    We discuss the first and second chapters of Adrian Johns’ recent book. Some of the topics include the late-19th-century panic over the exhausting effects of “unnatural” reading and neurasthenia, other technologies (of both acquiring knowledge and making notes) and their advantages and disadvantages, saccades and thought, the strange misuse of the incorrect theory or recapitulation, and the general weirdness of how close reading science was to eugenics and social Darwinism.

    1h 54m

  7. AUG 3

    The Science of Reading, Meeting #3

    In this talk we cover the third and fourth chapters of Adrians Johns' book. The things that stood out to me were more about the social importance of reading rather than the research technologies and data collected. There was a profound anxiety that an American public that wasn't literate would not be up to the challenges of the 20th century. There's an explicit connection here to Mortimer Adler's idea of the Great Books helping people prepare to be better citizens, and Johns actually mentions Adler in Chapter 4. To watch a video of this conversation, visit https://open.substack.com/pub/danallosso/p/science-of-reading-meeting-3?r=i937&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

    1h 38m

  8. JUL 20

    The Science of Reading, Meeting 1

    After a couple weeks break while I moved into my apartment in Saint Paul, the Saturday Book Club reconvened to begin discussing Adrian Johns’ 2023 book, The Science of Reading: Information, Media & Mind in Modern America. Although I had originally been a bit skeptical, I’m enjoying this book. We discussed languages and reading, the particularity of the reading experience, a bit of book history, the fact that this was a COVID book, Jacques Barzun, Eric Weinstein, Richard Dawkins, Thomas Kuhn, Michio Kaku, and the problem of creating collegiality in a remote and increasingly asynchronous learning environment.

    2h 10m
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Making History is the top-level thing I do, as a historian, teacher, and writer. I create content, based on either original primary research or to present the findings of other historians to my students. This channel will cover several topics (arranged in playlists) such as note-taking, research, and writing tools and techniques, history I'm teaching at Bemidji State University, research and writing projects I'm working on, Open Education techniques and resources I'm creating, and reflections on the ways that history helps us understand our current world.

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  • Creator
    Dan Allosso
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    323
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Dan Allosso
  • Show Website
    MakingHistory

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