Professor KC Johnson, of Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate School, kicks off Uncomfortable Learning at Williams College with a talk on how history education has changed in the past few decades. History departments have traded a focus on rigorous, document based research on the military, diplomacy, and grand figures for an emphasis on race, class and gender. Professor Johnson explains how many of those trends have developed, the impact of those changes, and what can be done to improve universities and better prepare students.