Category Archives: HIST 134

From Gladiators to MOOCs: Higher Education, Technology, and Social Mobility

I ask my students, “If you were a gladiator, which technology would you prefer: a trident, a net, or a wooden sword?” It is a question I would like you to consider; a question to which I will return. Even before Verus and Priscus entered the Coliseum in AD 80, individuals realized that access to […]