Episode 149 - Alastair Kocho-Williams on Teaching History through Wargames

Beyond Solitaire

This week on the podcast, Alastair Kocho-Williams (@akochowi), a professor at Clarkson University, drops by to discuss how he's using wargames and game design to teach history to his students.
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