Perspectives on History
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Article: Course Design
The Unessay: A Creative and Audience-Focused Assignment
Perspectives on History
Derek’s
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When you give students their choice of medium to make an evidence-based argument, you can be delightfully surprised by what they produce!
Critics of the way historians teach and interact with the public have boomed in the past decade, in large part because history majors in colleges and universities have been on the decline for some time. This downward trajectory has forced historians to rethink how they present their work, what kinds of audiences they reach, and ultimately how they train the next generation of historians. The unessay is just one step in rethinking what a history education means, and it’s a powerful tool to get students to think through the future of the discipline with us.