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On Top of the World

Jun 27, 2018

Listen in on Dave and Matt's panel and Q&A at the World History Association in Milwaukee, WI!

Your hosts talk history podcasting and the history of this podcast.  Listen in to hear our plans for the future of the show as well as some great question and suggestions (00:29:54) from our lovely studio audience.  

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Jun 10, 2018

Matt and Dave continue their interview with Rick Warner! We discuss the announced halving of the AP World History course and the College Board’s condescending and dismissive attitude to the concerns of teachers and professors.  We talk about the CB Open Forum (you can watch the whole thing, here on our Facebook page)...


Jun 9, 2018

Matt and Dave sit down with World History veteran Rick Warner to discuss the long arc of the field and the AP exam.  The AP exam revision will be discussed in part 2 of the interview.  Rick argues for the centrality of World History as a teaching field and that “World History is invented in the classroom.” We...


Jun 8, 2018

In a surprise announcement last week, the College Board declared they are cutting out the whole first half of the AP World History curriculum (a.k.a. Periods I, II, & III).  The course is now going to be just World History from 1450 CE.

We think this is a truck load of bullshit.  Tune in to find out exactly what kind of...


Jun 8, 2018

The original “Bro-dels” Matt and Dave tackle Jo Guldi and David Armitage’s The History Manifesto.  How should historians respond to the “crisis of the humanities?”  Your hosts discuss Guldi and Armitage’s ideas of “long-termism,” big data, and the need for public-facing scholarship from the perspective...