SocialChange101.org

Nico Slate (Carnegie Mellon University)

This video describes the online historical project SocialChange101.org, which is a free, open access, online course on the history of social movements and social change. It also is a free workshop series aimed at high school students. It is an example of how open access web courses can provide the means to educate and inspire a wide range of people across the globe.

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SocialChange101.org.

July 3, 2019. Digital History, Digital Pedagogy, Digital Public History

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Nico Slate (Carnegie Mellon University)

Nico Slate is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. His research and teaching focus on the history of social movements in the United States and India. He is the author of four books: Lord Cornwallis Is Dead: The Struggle for Democracy in the United States and India (Harvard University Press in 2019); Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind (University of Washington Press, 2019); The Prism of Race: W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson and the Colored World of Cedric Dover (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); and Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India (Harvard University Press, 2012).