Revival

Ten years ago, I started the Schumanities Blog as a scratch site to capture some ideas-in-progress as a professional historian, casual commentator on modern politics, and emerging hobbyist in the teaching and learning realm.

As decades go, it's probably been about average for anyone at any time, but it's felt very full.

My personal life has been very full and fulfilling, with marriage, kids, and a reasonable social life. I also survived the pandemic, changed jobs and churches a few times, and shifted my interests ever more toward instructional design, as well as scholarship of teaching and learning.

Professionally, I won a teaching award for how I designed a Historiography class, got a very full taste of faith and learning integration by teaching dual-enrolled courses at a Muslim high school, earned a graduate certificate in Instructional Design and Technology, and published a chapter on multipolar power politics for the New Makers of Modern Strategy (Princeton, 2023).

All of this to say that it's been a pretty busy decade, and yet, I still stand by a lot of what I wrote before all of this happened. It's not just that I look back with a certain amount of reverie and agreement with my younger self, but also, as an historian, I think the older posts do set up what I think and hope is coming. So here, I'll label them as prequels.

Going forward, I think I have a lot to comment on, both from my ongoing scholarship and with current events both globally and in American education. I'll do my best to tag appropriately.