Jeremiah McCall

Jeremiah McCall has a Ph.D. in Greco-Roman history and authored The Cavalry of the Roman Republic and Sword of Rome: A Biography of Marcellus. He teaches history at Cincinnati Country Day School. A researcher and experimenter on the effective use of historical simulation games in education, McCall wrote Gaming the Past: Using Video Games to Teach Secondary History in 2011, the first teachers’ guidebook to effectively teaching with simulation games.

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Historical Simulations as Problem Spaces: Criticism and Classroom Use

Part I: Historical Simulations as Problem Spaces: Some Guidelines for Criticism

The concept of problem space is a highly useful tool for studying historical simulations, teaching history, and using the former to help in the latter.

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