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Does History Belong in Universities?

Christmas Music Takes Us Out of Time

Merry Christmas

Take a Gander at Our Glossary

Reading List for Chapter 1: On Generation and Corruption

Academic Alliances

À la Mode and Démodé

The Purposes of Plagiarism

Reading Forward

Be Grateful for What You Can Throw Away

"I'm Just Not A Math Person!"

Self-Education in an Age of Large Language Models

Self-Directed Tutorials

Tutorials at the Wilhelmstein

Crêpe and Croissant

Bonhomme, Bonne Femme, and Bonhomie

The Republic of England

Education for Responsible Living

The Effect of a Lecture

"Know When to Fold 'Em"

Don't Send Your Kids To College

Build a Brighter Word-Hoard

Life-Long Language Learning

The Trainer

Punctuated Reading

The Two Faces of History

Policy on Comments

The Awful German Language is not so Awful After All

Surf City Syndrome

Aide-Mémoire and Amuse-Bouche

A Short History of Lecture Notes

The Value of Lecture Notes

Making History More "Replicable"

Kiss Me Goodnight, Sergeants Major

A Lecture Against Lecturing

Avant la Lettre and Après la Lettre

A Little Love for Lifelong Language Learners

Affinage, Affineur, and Amandine

Intelligence and Conformity

Chanteuse and Chartreuse

Chinoiserie and Contretemps

Café au Lait and Cabernet Sauvignon

What Makes the Gray Zones Gray?

Does School Make People Arrogant?

Amour Propre and Au Courant

Do Podcasts Depend Upon the Academy?

Stock Your Synonyms

I Say "Lootenant," You Say 'Leftenant'

The Problem of Picayune Correction

Can YouTube Save Us from the Harvard Curse?

Beau Geste and Bête Noire

Feel Free to Contradict Yourself

Dealing with a Difficult Text

Watch Your P's and Coups (Encore)

Tenets and Tenants

Minds on Fire

Peak and Pique

The Gamma and the Wall of Text

A Tale of Two Battle-Axes

Narrative Logistics

The Paradox of Civics Initiatives

Henry Adams Remembers His Years at Harvard College

What Shall We Do With The Midwits?

Tools for Translators

Putting Plastic People in Your Infographics

Podcasts about the Anglo-Saxons

Word Herd: A Polyglot Approach to Expanding Your Vocabulary

Drawing with Presentation Programs

Drawing with Presentation Programs

Advice for Young Men

What Will Become of Universities?

When Does History Start?

Extra Muros Has Returned

The Ancient World

Extra Muros will return on 18 August 2023

Learning Tips from Elizabeth Filips

How Smart Are College Graduates?

Making the Most of Wikipedia

Lunch with John Boyd

College, Class, and Christmas

Study Tips from 1782

Thugs and Miracles

History of the Germans

The Great Mistake of Mary Tyler Moore

Mice and Lice and Language

Make Friends With Philology

"Hacking" College

Should You Get a PhD?

Complements and Compliments

The Achilles Heel of Artificial Intelligence

The Noxious Weed of Wokery Thrives in the Groves of Academic Specialization

Lessons Make Us Lazy

Is College Worth the Cost?

Some Thoughts about Community Colleges

The Education of the Enlightened Soldier

Treat a Topic Like a Movie

Add Texture to Your Graphics

Dress Up Your Memes

The Alloglot Advantage

Professors Presume That They Know How to Teach

Holly and Ivy

Singular Vision

Vibrant Verbs That You Can Use

The American Revolution

The Shape of the Study of History

Trailblazers

The Mandarin Moment

Cultivating Humility

The Strongest Part of a Book is the Middle

Academic Fraud: The Case of Francesca Gino

The Case for Memorizing Poetry

Do Examinations Promote Learning?

Glossary

Editors Helped Me Improve My Writing

The Best Jobs for Autodidacts

Why I Pull My Punches

Revoice! Paraphrasing Will Help You Learn

The History of England Podcast

Poetry and Pathos

Textbooks

Chatting (GPI) Without Cheating

Good Books Forbear

Kin But Not Twins

Learn a Thousand Words in a Minute

Deeper than DIE

Zinsser Wrote Well

How to Buy Books

Continuous and Continual

Create a Companion

Things I Learned This Week

A Lesson from Lego

Writing Well

You Don't Have to Agree with a Book

Thank You!

Your First Foreign Language

Pronunciation

The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship

How to Read

Active Verbs

Musical Theater

Active Learning for Autodidacts

Parallel Texts

The Power of Cognates

Create a Portfolio

Plato to NATO

Skeptical Reading

College and Class

Interactive Public Speaking

Mind the Gap

Pictorial Preparation

Old Reviews of Older Books

Download Often, Download Early

How people use their foreign language skills

Desperate Housewives

The Science of Learning

Put the Ear-Worm to Work

Yet another reason to study foreign languages

The Autodidact

Pseudo-Professional Programs

Learning Math on Your Own

Eighteen wheels, and a dozen lectures

Professors and Performers

Signal Your Smarts