A Great Book I am Reading (A NYT Review)

I found The Age of American Unreason published in the New York Times Review of Books. I am really excited about this work and more than curious to see why historians are calling it the completion of intellectual thought unfinished by the late Richard Hofstadter. His The American Political Tradition is one of his most [...]

School Leadership

The unfortunate reality of modern day schools can be found in their leadership approach. A number of schools have placed great emphasis on campus leadership. This leadership can be found among both faculty and students. Two local Houston private schools that have made leadership a focus are that of Houston Christian and the Second Baptist [...]

Thinking CAC #1

Teaching at CAC was a great experience for me; it allowed me to grow and take on a  leadership role among the faculty. It is true that when I first arrived on campus, I was not the most popular teacher. My classes were too tough; I graded to rigidly. According to one student’s evaluation of [...]

Recent Teaching Visit and Atlantic History

 
 

Cover Illustration: By the eighteenth century, the Atlantic Ocean was crisscrossed by trade routes between Europe and the Americas. Ships traveled these sea lanes carrying everything from cargo to slaves to new forms of political thought. The connections between Britain and North America have been well studied, but less attention has been paid to the [...]

Thoughts on Genocide by Chris Tutunjian

Chris Tutunjian is a sophomore student at Houston Christian High School; he is currently enrolled in Advanced Placement World History, a course taught by my department head Christine Metoyer. Chris offers an interesting analysis into the 20th century problem of Social Darwinism. I have closed the comment box on this post, but ask that many [...]

Academic Memberships

Above: Copy of the American Historical Review
One of the benefits that come with academic organizational memberships are plentiful:

You receive quarterly academic journals that contain a host of articles, book reviews, and field updates. At times I feel guilty for bypassing the articles and reading the reviews; it is impossible to read every book published. And [...]

Finals

This is a partial re-post for students who are about to start freaking out about finals that start this week. It has been a number of years since I finished undergraduate and graduate school. And, even longer since high school; however, I do believe that I am qualified to give some advice on surviving [...]

A Christian Democrat by Dillon Sorensen

Dillon Sorensen is a 10th grader and frequent contributer to The Proletarian; feel free to leave a comment for him regarding the post. Here is a previous post by Mr. Sorensen.
I attend a private Christian high school in Houston – creatively named Houston Christian High School. At HCHS, most of the students are white, wealthy, [...]

Went to the Barbershop Today

When one engages in a discussion about the various typologies that are defined by physical characteristics, one cannot pass on the obvious: physical shape, hair texture, nose, and facial structure. The period historians have assigned with the title Enlightenment gave rise to a new form of racial categorizations: Negroids, Mongoloids, and Caucasoid were assigned to [...]

“Just Say No”

Growing up in my circles as a teen was tough at times; I had respect for the drug dealers and gang bangers that would tell me to go home, or suggest that I not show up in a particular area at a particular time. I have seen my share of stuff; once, right after I [...]

Coat Style

Above: Carson with Fellow student Emily Driscoll
Emily who is one of many students on my favorite list, asked to try on my trench coat; it is clearly too large for her. I thought why not; it is not like you get to sport coats in Houston all that often. Better yet, I was recently talking [...]

Thinking Boston

Above: Carson in the final meters of a road race.
I have not blogged much on my training. Because it is going so well, I have decided to make an attempt at qualifying for 2009 Boston; sure, I will need to shave 40 minutes off my current marathon time, but I am feeling very confident. I [...]

Sad News in the European History Community

 It is a sad moment in the academic community: Bruce Adams, a friend and colleague to many of us died of a brain tumor; we did not know Bruce was sick until he decided not to attend the Advanced Placement European history reading in Fort Collins this past June.
I was able to recover from my [...]

Teaching Great Students #4

Only in a Carson run course can this happen: I show up to class two minutes late to discover my advanced students on the table praying in protest that I do not hand them an assignment. Again, I do have a great students. If this is the extent of the crap I get from them, I will [...]

Affirmative Action Part I: The Courts by Jaylon Williams

Jaylon, who teaches at a northern university has contributed the first of three pieces on the topic of affirmative action; I will voice my support for AA more in my next piece on the state of Texas 10% rule and the demise of AA. Jaylon has drafted or sent pieces to The Proletarian in the [...]