Ludica: Table of Contents

Playing slavery in the new edition of Struggle of Empires

Bibliography of academic work on emancipation and abolitionism in the Atlantic world

Lectures on Reconstruction (1861-1877)

Pax Exasperation

Scrambling over Africa

Description of play for Pax Emancipation

Skepticism in (and of) the Enlightenment (Pax Emancipation)

“Mechanics” versus “architecture”

The origins of slavery in Pax Emancipation

Some responses on Pax Em

Thoughts on Pax Emancipation's footnotes, 17-19

Thoughts on Pax Emancipation's footnotes, 9-16

Thoughts on Pax Emancipation's footnotes, 1-8

How boardgames engage history I

Heroic Escapees mod for Freedom: The Underground Railroad

Ludica video: Scholars take on GMT's Falling Sky: The Gallic Revolt Against Caesar

Essay prompts for Liberty or Death F18

An introduction to boardgames for educators

Another student review of Founding Fathers (2010, des. Christian Leonhard, Jason Matthews)

A student's review of Founding Fathers (2010, des. Christian Leonhard, Jason Matthews)

A student's review of Liberty or Death

Guest post: "Pawns of Manifest Destiny: Native-American Agency and Visibility in History Based Tabletop Games"

A historian's take on Freedom: The Underground Railroad

Video impressions of our boardgames course

Essay prompts for Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection

Essay prompts for Colonial: Europe's Empires Overseas

Syllabus (final draft)

Lab sessions

Game analysis assignment

Treasures from the Paul Fink Transportation Game Collection, Osher Map Library, U. of S. Maine

Podcast interview: Every night is game night

Fascinating Fascism, part II: Train [18 May 2017]

Fascinating Fascism, part I: Secret Hitler [11 May 2017]

Why do we argue over games with socially difficult themes? (Part 2 of 2) [25 April 2017]

Why do we argue over games with socially difficult themes? (Part 1 of 2) [25 April 2017]

On Freedom: The Underground Railroad [19 April 2017]

Interview with Brian Mayer, designer of Freedom: The Underground Railroad [19 April 2017]

Prospectus [27 April 2017]

Games selected for my history course [8 April 2017]

Selected readings [2 April 2017]

Proposal for a history course built around tabletop games [2 April 2017]

Seriously – boardgames? Yes, seriously.