teaching
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Podcasts as Pedagogy, AHA 2020
I participated in a panel on teaching with podcasts at the 2020 annual meeting of the American Historical Association in New York. You can read more about the assignment at Teaching US History, where I wrote about it in some depth a few years ago, and check out the actual assignment sheet here in case […]
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What do the people who teach college get paid?
You may have run across a spreadsheet collecting salary information for adjuncts, full-time NTTs, and tenure-track faculty. If it’s this spreadsheet, then it was started by me, and I’m the one who’s maintaining it. It began to track the salaries of adjunct and full-time NTT faculty, but has recently expanded to include salaries for tenure-track […]
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Teaching and learning when you’re “locked out”
Becky Nicolaides’ recent piece in Perspectives on being a scholar who is “locked out” of research access is a must-read. Rather than simply contrasting those with university affiliations and those without, she draws on a 2017 AHA study to explore a variety of experiences that will resonate with many of us who have spent time […]
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Civics 101 in History 130 & 131
My friend Virginia introduced me to the New Hampshire Public Radio-produced podcast Civics 101 earlier this year. She was on the board of NHPR and rightly-proud of their new venture. I’ve enjoyed listening to host Virginia Prescott (a different Virginia) interview a different guest each week – including many professors – on topics like “Party Whips,” […]
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Un-collapsing history
Rethinking the appropriate balance of that similar-yet-different tension that is central to doing history.
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can’t leave well enough alone
Last summer I wrote that I was going to try to come up with new projects for my US I and US II survey courses. I did, and they were…fine. But they weren’t spectacular. So I’m trying something new again, while trying to rejigger one of the things I did last semester for use this […]
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Women’s history commonplace blog drafts
As I mentioned last week, my women’s history students are creating blogs inspired by commonplace books. This project not only requires them to produce public writing, but to make the draft stage public. To that end, they have had to put up draft versions of all the contextualized quotes they want to examine, and they are […]
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Commonplacing women’s history
I wrote earlier this summer about my use of commonplace books in my women’s history class, and about how I hoped to turn that practice into a project for the class. Well… My students have each chosen a theme to explore, and are busy selecting and contextualizing passages from primary and secondary sources. By the end […]
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Teaching Resolutions Fall 2016
Talk less, listen more – My classrooms are all discussion based, with no lectures, but you know how it is…you get really excited to talk about what you thought was cool in the readings, or you want to tell them this other contextual information that will totally blow their minds, or you end up re-teaching by […]
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“Rules for Wives”
This list of Good Housekeeping’s 1955 “Good House Wife’s Guide” has been getting a lot of attention on ye ol’intertubes. What are those guidelines? 1.) Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal ready, on time for his return. This is a way of letting him know that you […]
