Since we’re famous here at TUSH.0 … we get contacted all the time. Some want to sell their products online; others hope we’ll mention their book. And then sometimes we get neat new resource information that could perhaps help us teach better. Here is one from findthedata.org. They collect, collate, and display various information about…
The Whitewashing of Civil War America There are so many more reasons to feel sick about Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter – both the film and the novel. The take home message to me (and again, I have yet to see the movie) is that it presents American history in such a way that whites have…
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter failed at the box office. I haven’t seen the movie (I’ll rent it for $1.31, unless redbox’s prices jump again), but I did read the novel. In part, I grabbed it because a group of junior high and high school teachers told me their students were reading it. I enjoyed Wicked,…
Today we celebrate. TUSH.0 has been named the 47th best blog ever created. Hooray for us!!! (and by ever created, I mean on US history and by some online college blog we don’t know much about) http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2012/07/02/the-50-best-american-history-blogs/
I only caught George Marsden’s interest once. As an undergraduate hoping to get accepted into Notre Dame’s graduate program in history, I met with Professor Marsden to discuss my research on Dwight Moody’s revivals. As I explained my love of studying history, I told him of how I put my hands directly on the microfilm…
What do you think of student evaluations? And, perhaps more importantly, what do you do with them. I’ve heard of a number of responses to student evaluations, including: ignoring them: they’re not a good measure of teaching effectiveness reading them for trends in what students like and dislike mocking the students for not “getting” what…
When I ran into Daniel Tosh’s marketing crew in New York City (none of us is sure which came first tosh.0 or tush.0; that chicken and egg debate will probably never be answered) and left with 400 “Tosh.5.29” wrist bands for my gigantic course in the fall, I started thinking seriously about how I want…
There’s a lot to celebrate these days: a certain co-editor of TUSH.0 received tenure some seniors are graduating I had lunch with Pamela Klassen yesterday, an amazing scholar of religion and friend of the blog Gregory P. Downs just published a new essay in the American Historical Review. Ten years from now, I’m guessing that…
Well, the semester is officially ending here in San Diego. We’ve had a run ride this academic year – reading insights from wonderful scholars like Matthew Bowman, Jennifer Graber, Thomas Kidd, Amy Murrell Taylor (who, by the way, is on her way to the great state and university of Kentucky), Anthony Kaye, Linford Fisher (who,…
Voting in 1867Harper’s Weekly We’re about finished with the semester, and my students are now writing either on how much the Civil War and Reconstruction changed life for African Americans or on the influence of slavery on US society in the decades before the war. I use these assignments for a number of reasons, but…
