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Thinking Globally to Deep Dive Locally

The Knowledge Travels team is always thinking about new Study-in-Residence courses. This blog is, basically, our sketchpad of ideas. This website features our A Tale of Two Cities course, but we have many more in the works! We would love to work with you to adapt any of these to your class, or bring us an idea we can custom design for you!

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The Best and Worst of Times? A Tale of Two Cities

Stephen Himes

Jun 27, 2022
1 min

The Best and Worst of Times? A Tale of Two Cities

The pictures on this site are from Knowledge Travels' last pre-pandemic venture, A Tale of Two Cites. This course is the perfect AP or...

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What is the Nature of Genius? Handel's Creation of "Messiah"

Stephen Himes

Jun 27, 2022
1 min

What is the Nature of Genius? Handel's Creation of "Messiah"

Another course I've been planning for years! This course is centered on how Georg Friedrich Handel came to create his famous Messiah,...

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The Suffragettes: How They Won Votes For Women

Stephen Himes

Jun 27, 2022
1 min

The Suffragettes: How They Won Votes For Women

This course will deep-dive into the intersection of feminism and the modern labour movement by tracing the origins of the Suffragettes...

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What is Frankenstein's Monster? Unearthing the World of Mary Shelley

Stephen Himes

Jun 27, 2022
2 min

What is Frankenstein's Monster? Unearthing the World of Mary Shelley

I have been developing this course for years, which is the perfect AP Lit + STEM + History interdisciplinary trip. Frankenstein is one...

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Victor Hugo *Is* France

Stephen Himes

Jun 27, 2022
1 min

Victor Hugo *Is* France

Post-Napoleon, no figure looms larger over the development of modern France than Victor Hugo. More than just the author of Les...

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Emilie du Chatelet: The Forgotten Genius of France's Scientific Enlightenment

Stephen Himes

Jun 27, 2022
1 min

Emilie du Chatelet: The Forgotten Genius of France's Scientific Enlightenment

For most of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Emilie du Chatelet was remembered as nothing more than "Voltaire's Mistress." Voltaire himself...

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From Hamilton to *Hamilton*: The role of musical theater in historical memory

Stephen Himes

Jun 27, 2022
1 min

From Hamilton to *Hamilton*: The role of musical theater in historical memory

Hamilton is perhaps the artistic landmark in the last decade of American art forms. So much so that its lines are quoted by...

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The Boston Massacre: What Can We Learn About the Role of Protest in American Democracy?

Stephen Himes

Jun 24, 2022
1 min

The Boston Massacre: What Can We Learn About the Role of Protest in American Democracy?

This idea has been in development for five years, but we couldn't launch because of COVID-19. I have met with the Massachusetts...

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