History 419: Digital History and Archival Practices

 Phillip Payne and Dennis Frank are offering History 419: Digital History and Archival Practices next fall. If you like getting your hands dirty doing original archival work on the history of St. Bonaventure University, creating any number of cool digital products this is the class for you. We've made podcasts, maps, web pages and much more in the past.

Push for more history and civics education

History is an excellent way to understand civics, not only the nuts and bolts of government but the difficulties and nuances of democracy and republican governments. We've got a lot of classes that cover this.  Here is a story from the Washington Post about an initiative to teach more civics and history, and to do a better job teaching them.