When you're grading AP exams and kids follow the Heimler/Freeman fill-in-the-blank strategies and get a 7/7 for the most boring, but rubrically correct DBQ you've ever read...

In the midst of introducing my favorite reading of the year today & talking about why it's so important because it focuses on what the work of history really is I noticed a number of my students looking concerned.

So I said, don't worry it covers the Haitian Revolution which is on the test....

Love that one - used it since it came out!

Oh ya - this is a very good distinction!!

Makes sense to me!

All this to say man AI just ruins everything.

And finally, did you know wheat went from the Americas to Afroeurasia for the first time as a result of the Columbian Exchange

Apparently France colonized Ethiopia at some point in the 1930s

I think this is supposed to be a map of Africa 🤷‍♂️