Dimitri seems unimpressed with the recent biography of Charles Russell Lowell by Carol Bundy. I am about half-way through the book and although I was going to wait until I finished it now seems to be an opportune moment to make a few points. I agree with Dimitri and other reviewers that a big problem [...]

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A Classroom Surprise

My AP classes are now reading about the Progressive Era. The period from roughly 1880 to 1914 is one of those quagmires that I never feel completely comfortable teaching. It’s become much easier over the last two years, but I still don’t have the confidence that I feel when I am teaching the colonial and [...]

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Dear Carol Bundy: What Was Left Out

A Classroom Surprise

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