No sure who else would be interested in this but it's the kind of stuff I follow. The guy's a professor at Georgetown and he's teaching a course on the history of American Slavery. He's posting sources and reading materials. I like shit like this, last year I watched David Blight's of Yale course on the Civil War on Youtube, about 28 sessions. I read all the reading assignments too. I found out about it when I read Ta Neisha Coates talking about the research he did for his article on reparations.
When I think about how great the internet is supposed to be, I think of shit like this. I can follow along with the class, buy the books from Amazon and then read them all while on my tablet in the comfort of my home. I can then listen to the authors discuss their books on youtube and podcasts. I can quickly reference published reviews of the books to get differing or validating opinions.
Then I think about motherfuckers used the same internet and did similar things to spread rumors that the first African-American President was a socialist Muslim born in Kenya, therefore ineligible to be President. Is it narcissistic to think wise men learn more from fools than fools from wise men?
