Awaken HistoryEducators & studentsHistory talks back.
Awaken History is our education product. A student reads a short primer written from inside the figure's own frame of reference, then sits down with that person, by voice or by typing, and has to defend what they think. The figure asks what they mean and will not let a vague answer stand.
Visit Awaken History ↗Read, then talk
The primer sets the scene: what the figure knew, and what they had not seen yet. The conversation comes afterward, to deepen the reading, never to stand in for it.
It comes back to class
Every conversation ends with a prep card: the line a student wants to open discussion with, and a short reflection. The teacher walks in knowing where the class got stuck and which questions split the room.
Any subject with people in it
It is a format, not a syllabus. An educator opens a class, writes the readings, casts the figures, and sets the arc a conversation has to travel.
In pilot with courses at Columbia.
Elsewhere
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Whether you run a museum, teach a class, make things for an audience, or just love this stuff, we'd like to hear from you.