When I was in High School I read a book called Only Begotten Daughter, a work of speculative fiction published…
(By Michael) Introduction I want to talk about teaching history using Wikipedia, but not in the way I believe the…
“Why are you studying the history of the Kazakhs?” I have heard this question many times and it deserves a…
First, a digression: several centuries ago, the English language was quite a different beast. I love to look through the…
I’m hoping to share more translations, but in the meantime I wanted to put together some words to articulate an…
The history of the Republic of Kazakhstan is one born of the history of the Soviet Union, itself one steeped…
Here’s a thought – let’s use the family as a model for teaching history. I’m speaking as a citizen of…
National history stumbles when it perceives its subject as a population defined by membership in a specific group to the…
I’ve nearly finished my preparations for the PhD qualifying exams in Russian History. My dissertation proposal is, I believe, about…
In this post I will offer a few lighthearted challenges some common concepts and ideologies that I have encountered during…
