World History
If you think about it, biographers and historians have a huge impact on history. Case in point is McCullogh's book about Truman, that no one considered first rate until the biography. Another example is how Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote about Lincoln's cabinet which many compared to Obama after taking on Clinton. Of course this is important to history teachers as these books often end up as one liners in our textbooks and essential knowledge guides.
All of this makes me wonder how historians do it with thousands of pages of notes. It was one thing to write my book completely online as it is only 150 pages, but what about much longer ones. One day last spring I stumbled on Erik Larson's blog (as I was reading Dead Wake; he also is well known for Devil in the White City) and asked him how he does it. Initially he told me he was too tired from his book tour, but as you can see here, he finally settled down and wrote a very detailed answer - in case you are interested.
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World History
How to Write a Book and Influence History
All of this makes me wonder how historians do it with thousands of pages of notes. It was one thing to write my book completely online as it is only 150 pages, but what about much longer ones. One day last spring I stumbled on Erik Larson's blog (as I was reading Dead Wake; he also is well known for Devil in the White City) and asked him how he does it. Initially he told me he was too tired from his book tour, but as you can see here, he finally settled down and wrote a very detailed answer - in case you are interested.
- Causes Of Us Entering Wwi Lesson Plan
I am engrossed in Erik Laroson's new book Dead Wake which looks at the last voyage of the Lusitania including the view from U20, which sunk it as well as the decoders who knew that there was a great possibility that the Lusitania was going to be...
- More Ideas For Good Learning
This presentation adds to the posts I have done on the book, How We Learn. It repeats the thought that we learn best when we have breaks. Indeed the technique Barbara Oakley mentions is 25 minutes of focused attention (no texting, looking...
- Free Online Ancient World Civ Etextbook
We are in our fifth year of using an online textbook with our students and so it never ceases to amaze me that Pearson still isn't ready for prime time. Every year at this point, when everyone is logging in their books, they can't handle...
- Citations Made Easy
I will probably be referring to this a few times several weeks ago I signed a contract with Corwin Books to write a book (paper and digital will be available). After three months draft #1 is almost done (yeah!). But one tool that has been...
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Facebook just bought Push Pop which is a tablet and smart phone e-book producer which pushes the boundaries of what an e-book is. One of the reasons I have been a huge proponent of students using e-books is because of the amazingly quick changes...