May 11, 2021Is Clubhouse being manipulated by a disinformation campaign?Extremists and hostile actors are inflaming antisemitism on the app Foreign influence campaigns against the U.S. follow familiar patterns: Find a wedge issue that pits Americans against each other Exploit and inflame the issue with incendiary social media content Get Americans to spread it, either in solidarity or in outrage …Clubhouse5 min read
May 3, 2021How I’m launching a cryptocurrency to support public historyDecentralized finance is here. Let’s use it to support history. TL;DR — I’ve launched $JASON coin on the Rally network. It’s a real cryptocurrency, which means it can be exchanged for other currencies like Bitcoin or US Dollars. The currency will be used to support public historians and history communicators…Cryptocurrency4 min read
Feb 14, 2021Is Clubhouse the Future of Public History?The answer is, ‘Yes.’ At least, partially. I joined Clubhouse in August 2020 when the app had only several thousand users. Within a few days, I was struck by the appetite for historical knowledge in the conversations I joined. So, I began the first history-focused conversation series on the platform…Clubhouse5 min read
Sep 3, 2018THE STORY SHE NEVER TOLDMy grandmother never wanted to talk about the Holocaust. After her death, we vowed to do just that. My grandmother once told her neighbor the following story: She was on a train during the war, and a woman was seated across from her. After staring her down for a few…Holocaust22 min read
Published in Hindsights·Nov 3, 2017CAN AN ORAL HISTORY BE ‘FAKE NEWS’?In hindsight: Some critics have insisted that a veterans’ oral history project gives veterans free reign to misrepresent their military service. But these arguments fail to grasp the essence of oral history. by Jason Steinhauer In June 2013, President Barack Obama signed into law the Stolen Valor Act of 2013. …Veterans5 min read
Published in Hindsights·Sep 22, 2017THE CASE FOR HISTORICAL LITERACYIn hindsight: We need media literacy as we consume and create media by the terabyte. But we also need historical literacy. And the two are increasingly intertwined. On the morning of Sept. 1, 2017, a Twitter user tweeted that tearing down Confederate monuments dishonors blacks who fought for the South…Civil War5 min read
