Essay #2 Notes – Jonathan Eng As I finished up grading Essay #2 frantically over the Thanksgiving holiday in an effort to have it ready for my students by Friday morning in between spending it with friends and my Black Friday shopping, I spent the weekend reflecting on the quality of the essays while I…
The California American Studies Association annual conference is coming to sunny San Diego. It will be incredible; we will eat street tacos, over-analyze everything, and ride the famous trolley. Hope to hear from you (and please share with your students, graduate students, and colleagues): CALL FOR PAPERS California American Studies Association 2013 Annual Meeting San…
After last week’s lecture on “fright night, antebellum style,” where we examined the new freakiness of pre-Civil War America, I was excited to follow it up with perhaps my favorite lecture: “1830 America”. The lecture gives us some perspective on the development of the United States from the revolutionary era to the rise of the…
The AHA is having a series of round table discussions after the debates. Here is a preview from eminent historian Daniel Rodgers: The “j” word, jobs, was the dominant term in the evening’s debate: how best to encourage their growth and keep them at home. But the more striking word, from the historian’s perspective, was “I.” …
Does anyone have a book they would like to feature here at TUSH.0 or discuss? For instance, I just received an email from Harper about “a riveting narrative history that explores the role of the Sons of Liberty in the American Revolution: DESPERATE SONS: Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, and the Secret Bands of Radicals…
Today’s Post comes from FOB (friend of blog) Matt Moore and his blog: Teaching Beyond the TextbookTeaching the Causes of the American Revolution (as a parent/child fight)A few years ago, I was reading two books at the same time, Gordon Wood’s The Radicalism of the American Revolution and Chip and Dan Heath’s Made to Stick. Both books were…
Anyone teaching US race, segregation, or special needs history … check out this story of Minnesota teacher segregating African American and special needs students.
Here is a link to a blog piece in US religious history on using music in the classroom. This gets me thinking, what songs do folks use for the pre-Civil War era? I use Star-Spangled Banner, Yellow Rose of Texas, and slave spirituals. Any good ideas?
I’m not a witch at all — witches are old and ugly Caitlin Wion is a graduate student at San Diego State University writing a thesis on Louisa May Alcott. I do not think I could have been more excited when I saw The Salem Witch Trials in Hist; I had to plan a discussion around it.…
Tona J. Hangen I recently wrote about the “SkillBuilder” assignment I use in the survey class – which is a recurring, low-stakes 2-page primary source analysis exercise. Each time one is graded, I return it to the students with all their previous comments plus the new ones, so they can track progress throughout the semester. I have…
