And not even then. His family admits he’s off, but they couldn’t pinpoint it. Now on to feeling paranoid forever.

Sort of like when you go to the Holocust Museum and you’re given a passport and identification from an individual that was captured and sent to a concentration camp? Only your students use provided sources to write bios about 18th and 19th century immigrants (aka, refugees in the 2000s)? I think it’s great. Let…

I think the point is to have contemporary textual evidence, so for a class that ends in the 1860's time period, texts created post 1860's wouldn’t be referred to. The texts have to be contemporaneous to the time period being studied. I love that, I wish I had been required to refer to those types of sources in history…

No, the class is an Intro to American History class that ends in 1865. I’m already covering the period from the Ice Age to 1865, I don’t also have time in one semester to address 1865 to the present. I don’t assign contemporary sources because I’m teaching a history class, not because they don’t exist. Jeez.