Are There Limits to Historical Empathy?

How my students processed a mock trial of Holocaust perpetrators

When it comes to teaching, I’m an inveterate tinkerer. Whether I teach a course every semester, every year, or every two years, I can’t help but tweak some element of every lecture, discussion, and other activity. But whenever I teach my upper-level survey of modern European history, the following sequence of activities has occupied the middle of Novemb…