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How This Professor Made History Class Cool Again

By Amelia Benavides-Colón

Tore Olsson, Associate Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies, uses the video game Red Dead Redemption to teach his class “Red Dead History: Exploring America’s Violent Past Through the Hit Video Games” inside a Humanities and Social Sciences building classroom on March 29, 2023.

Steven Bridges, University of Tennessee
Tore Olsson uses the video game Red Dead Redemption to teach his class.
Tore Olsson used a wildly popular video game to get students talking about industrialization, racial integration, and other key themes of late-19th- and early-20th-century America.

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