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Professor of History
Northern Virginia Community College
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Russian Orthodox Church Domes |
The Great War: Materials site includes the following:
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Digital Experiments with Historical Maps (a few recent, online map experiments including Slatington Past and Present) |
Experiments with Data Visualizations (some older projects using Google Charts and some newer projects using Tableau Public)
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Some assorted scholarly papers and remarks. My most recent paper is "The Changing Face of Higher Education: Northern Virginia Community College and the Corporatization of Higher Education."
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| Some recent and continuing projects |
| HIS 218 Introduction to Digital History: an online course that introduces new technology for teaching and learning about history, designed especially for our Public History and Historic Preservation certificate program |
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| Some older history projects |
| Historical Memory: History as experienced and remembered by students and their families (an online archival database) |
| Northern Virginia Digital History Archive: An experimental digital history archive to document the history of Northern Virginia in the past fifty years |
| A Cultural History of the Last Fifty Years: An Interpretative Personal Timeline |
| Rock's 25 Greatest Albums: 1965 to 1985 from someone who lived with this music |
| Comparing World War II Experiences in the French and American Armies |
| Amadou Hampâté Bâ and the Uncertain Fortunes of French West Africa |
| Pramoedya Ananta Toer: Critic of the Dutch Colonial World and Decolonization in Indonesia |
| Studying Russian History and Culture (Reflections by scholars on their study of Russian history and culture) |
| The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles: The Remaking of Europe in 1919 |
| Historians I have Known aka What It Takes to Become a Historian, or Famous Historians I Have Known |
| Geography of Russia |
| Russian History Course Documents for HIS 241 (History of Russia I) and HIS 242 (History of Russia II) |
| The Holocaust in Poland (a collaborative presentation with Professor Andrew Wise) |
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| Social media |
| Digital Experiments in Teaching History: An old blog where I used to sometimes post about my teaching with technology experiments |
| Russian History blog: An even older blog where I now rarely post to support my Russian history courses |
| Blog for NOVA's Public History and Historic Preservation Certificate Program |
| NOVA's Public History and Historic Preservation Program on Facebook |
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| Wikipedia contributions |
| Sergei Grigoryevich Stroganov |
| Hamilton, Virginia |
| Beaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Company |
| Albertus L. Meyers Bridge |
| Northern Lehigh School District |
| Samuel Henry Kress |
| Hermann L. Weber (Magicpedia entry) |
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| Some teaching projects on which I am no longer actively working |
| My Chancellor's Commonwealth Professorship grant project (a two-year effort to rethink the teaching of our history survey courses) |
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| Some media projects/experiments |
| History Videos: Igorcat's Channel: My YouTube channel with videos for my history courses |
| ItunesU for Northern Virginia Community College formerly had some audio and video for my history courses. |
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| Some teaching projects on which I am no longer actively working |
| Achieving the Dream and HIS 101 at Northern Virginia Community College: Our initiative for the History of Western Civilization I survey course at the Loudoun campus and at the Extended Learning Institute |
| The New Web Design Center: Thoughts on Website Design |
| Project Pedagogy: Ideas for Better Teaching, A Loudoun Campus Resource for Adjunct (and full-time) Instructors (a second edition with Jennifer Lerner) |
| Advancing the Humanities through Technology at Community Colleges: A National Education Project Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities |
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| Some older experimental digital projects |
| The Poetry Corner (with short stories too!) |
| My online Art Gallery |
| An Office Tour (You may view a short Quicktime video (7.6M) about my campus office). |
| An Office Panorama (If your computer is equipped with Quicktime, you can view my campus office from a "virtual reality" perspective). |
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| Some projects that have disappeared from the web |
| The Loudoun Digital Humanities Project: Our initiative for the History of Western Civilization I survey course at the Loudoun campus and at the Extended Learning Institute (website no longer available) |
| The Humanities in the Twenty-First Century: A faculty humanities workshop at Northern Virginia Community College funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (website no longer available) |
| Teaching the Humanities in a World Wide Web Environment: A National Endowment for the Humanities Focus Grant, Spring 1998 (website no longer available) |
| Globalizing Regional Studies: Crossing Intellectual, Institutional and International Borders, Strengthening Area Studies through World History (website somewhat available) |
| Dogwood Project: An Experimental Virtual Learning Environment at Northern Virginia Community College (website no longer available) |
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| Links to some of my more recent presentations. |
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My online and campus courses and some teaching resources are located on my college page. |