MOCHE Munchies - January 2021

Each month, the Missouri Council for History Education will publish “MOCHE Munchies”: brief introductions to online resources and upcoming events related to history education. We hope you’ll browse and imbibe!

WHAT WE’RE READING

All the things! It’s been a break full of catching up with our favorite authors and historians.

  • We’re also getting started on this semester’s book for the MOCHE History Education Community, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Pulitzer Prize- winner Isabel Wilkerson. We’ll be meeting on Tuesday, January 26th for our first discussion. Check the website for the registration link here and tell your friends!

  • A nice companion piece to Wilkerson’s book is this timeline of African American history compiled by historian Stefan Bradley, formerly of Saint Louis University.

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING AND LISTENING TO

  • There’s so much in the Teaching Tolerance podcast that we can’t stop/won’t stop. Our new favorite is The Mind Online, which addresses how we absorb and assess the information that we and our students discover online.

  • These interviews about Ullysses S. Grant, y’all! If you’re finishing up the American Civil War and launching into Reconstruction, this is what you need. Short, lively, and everything from the 15th amendment to Hispanic participation in the Civil War to health and medicine in the nineteenth century (ahem, timely).

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FORWARD TO

Getting back into the classroom groove and seeing our students and…

  • All the panels at the virtual American Historical Association conference throughout January! With presentations from Yale historian Annette Gordon-Reed to New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and panel topics ranging from ethics in the Middle East to China’s economy to American religion and settler colonialism, there’s something for EVERYONE. Calendar and Zoom registration links are here.

  • In addition to sponsoring our annual conference, the Missouri Humanities Council is up to all sorts of good things. Among them is this discussion with the authors of The Upswing: How Americans Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again on January 14th. The discussion is open to the public. More information here. MHC members can also participate in the #ShowMeCivilityChallenge, and we could all use a little more civility in 2021, don’t you think?

Will Armon