Japanese anime comes in a plethora of genres, from romance to horror to slice of life. Many series are purely fictional and entirely original, but there are also many cartoons that borrow from actual historical events to make them more relevant. Some series are factual narratives of history, while others center around a specific historical […]
Month: May 2021
Florida education proposal targets efforts to ‘brainwash’ students into historic events
TALLAHASSEE – A proposed rule that will be evaluated by the State Board of Education aims to control how history is taught in Florida classrooms and not allow teachers to “brainwash” students, in the part of what state education commissioner Richard Corcoran has called a “constant, vigilant struggle.” The proposed rule is intended to put […]
Video Games Shape How Americans Understand Historical Events
LAWRENCE – Esports participants have recently become seen as true athletes. Now other video game players are apparently aspiring historians. This is one of the claims in an article titled “Deep Play? Video games and historical imagination. “Historians should take historical video games more seriously as a way to understand how audiences construct their knowledge […]
Video games shape the way Americans understand historical events
LAWRENCE – Esports participants have recently come to be seen as true athletes. Now other video game players are apparently budding historians. This is one of the claims of an article titled “Deep game? Video games and historical imagination. âHistorians should take historical video games more seriously to understand how the public constructs their knowledge […]