History Prof. Mark Carnes and his Reacting to the Past Seminar Featured in The Christian Science Monitor

New York, NY, August 13, 2002-- History Professor Mark Carnes is the inventor of an innovative first-year program in which students take on the persona of characters in history, from politicians in ancient Greece to colonists in a Massachusetts witch trial, with the goal of understanding upheavals in history through the debates of the time. The Christian Science Monitor on Tuesday, Aug. 13 featured an article about a recent seminar on the Reacting to the Past project in which Carnes gave 40 professors and students a training session in the game.

To read the full article in The Christian Science Monitor, click here.

Click here for more information on the first Reacting to the Past training conference held July 22-25, 2002.