Historical Perspectives.
Applied to Today.
History is a set of skills: a means of analysis, a way of unlocking problems, and a way of presenting ideas. These skills underline what we at the Circa Project do in our work as professional historians. These same skills also motivate our Circa programs.
Here at the Circa Project, we teach students the skills of history. We move beyond memorizing people and dates to focus on the critical thinking, close analysis, and clear argumentation required for a discipline that extracts as much as possible from the fragments of the past to discover stories that still speak to us today.
We make these skills engaging to students by structuring our skill-based lessons around powerful historical case studies. And we empower students to use these skills to conduct historical research themselves.
Join the Circa Project today, and come find a new perspective on the past.
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Colleen Anderson, PhD
FOUNDER
colleen@circaproject.com
Dr. Anderson is a professional historian and educator. She holds a PhD in modern history from Harvard University. She also holds degrees from Notre Dame and the University of St Andrews (UK).
Dr. Anderson has taught at Harvard and Stanford. At Harvard, she was awarded the prestigious Bok Certificate of Distinction and Excellence in Teaching every semester that she taught.
Dr. Anderson started the Circa Project to give high school students the skills they need to be successful in her college seminars. She also wants to empower students to research historical questions themselves—history is far more captivating when you can research it yourself. Dr. Anderson believes that history is a powerful discipline with skills that resonate across academic and real-world experiences—students just need to be introduced to its methods so that they can succeed on their own.
