Jonathan Ablard participated in a panel on teaching at the 2014 American Historical Association meeting, in Washington, D.C.
The panel, "Disruptive Pedagogies: Reimagining Classroom-Based Approaches to Student Learning" was sponsored by the AHA Teaching Division. Dr. Ablard shared a variety of assignments, including "fictional history" projects, that he developed in his course "From Sugar to Oil: Commodities in the Americas."
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20140118113235122