The H/21 initiative launched in August 2019 with a meeting at SFSU of leading history educators (including veterans of significant world history textbook projects) from around the country. Bob Bain of the University of Michigan delivered the keynote address, which reviewed the long history of incomplete efforts at broad curricular reform and challenged us to…
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History program gets $250,000 gift, envisions bright new future
Donation will fund effort to transform introductory courses According to the American Historical Association, between 2008 and 2017 the number of U.S. college students pursuing history degrees dropped by nearly a third. But San Francisco State University History Department faculty members Trevor Getz and Steve Harris aren’t worried that the history major will soon be…