US II
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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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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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When Exactly Was America Great? Darn good question.
Interviews with Americans from eight states on this election-themed question Source: When Exactly Was America Great? – The Atlantic – The Atlantic This little video is an amazing window into views of the American past. Fascinating to see the periods of time chosen by the people interviewed, and extra fascinating to see how they restate […]
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Thinking about teaching 5a: new project for the surveys
As I mentioned yesterday, I want to revise the projects my students do in both of my U.S. survey classes and my U.S. women’s history class, all of which I’ll be teaching in the fall. For my U.S. surveys, I’ve done two major projects over time. I’ve most often taught U.S. I, and in it, I often […]
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Thinking about teaching 5: priorities, people
So, it’s almost the end of June, the point where academics (at least those on a semester system) go “OMG school starts two months from now what have I been doing with my life?!” I had big dreams about fixing/changing my courses for the fall, and now’s the point where we get real about what’s […]
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Textbooks and the Civil Rights Movement – Lawyers, Guns & Money : Lawyers, Guns & Money
As I discussed in the Black Power post from a couple of days ago, the civil rights movement has no real start or end. It’s an ongoing series of struggles. The Civil Rights Movement we think of as having primarily existed between 1954 and 1965 is really just a moment where the black freedom struggle […]
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Thinking about teaching 3
Having outlined my basic structure for my U.S. survey courses, let’s get down to it. What do I like and not like about how my courses work? (This is long, maybe take a break for a cup of tea in the middle.) The lessons: I love that the “flipped” structure allows us the time to […]
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Thinking about teaching 1
As I mentioned earlier, I want to use this space to think about teaching, from course structure to reading selection to classroom management and approaches. This first post, and several subsequent posts, will be to establish the current structures of my courses, what I like, and what I don’t like. My classes are (if my […]
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It’s not even past
A useful reminder that things we study that can seem so antiquated to young students are within the living memory and experience of lots of people. 55 yrs ago today on the Freedom Rides, we were beaten by a mob in Montgomery. A crate was smashed over my head. pic.twitter.com/Abk5iF8U8Z — John Lewis (@repjohnlewis) May 20, 2016
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Morley Safer reports from Vietnam in 1965
Saw this floating around Twitter after the news of Morley Safer’s death, and I’m considering working portions of it into our discussion of Vietnam (and longer-term discussion of the media) in US II this fall. Check out the interview with Maj. Charles Beckwith at 6:38. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDJwgp0vCeg
