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Professor Tore Olsson Makes History Cool Again

Professor Tore Olsson Makes History Cool Again

Update: 2024-08-12
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When he started playing video game “Red Dead Redemption 2”, (which has sold over 64 million copies) Professor Tore Olsson from the University of Tennessee was inspired to use the game's setting in the American West to inspire his students and provoke a conversation about the real history of this romanticized era. And his curriculum has been a wild success.

Tore explains how even though the game isn’t perfectly historically accurate, it does raise themes and ideas that are critical to a real understanding of a critical period in American history.



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Professor Tore Olsson Makes History Cool Again

Professor Tore Olsson Makes History Cool Again

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