What Taxes Teach (in that terrible movie Hitch, Kevin James plays an accountant,and when I saw his AICPA mug on his desk I exploded in joyat the movie theater. That was the only good part of the movie. Thanks to the good people at TurboTax, I have once again complied with federal and state law…
Using Blogs with DiscussionsNina McCune After visiting positions at Columbia University and Pratt Institute, Nina McCune has relocated to the deep south to teach Modern American History at Baton Rouge Community College. She is currently writing a book on human and civil rights in interwar America. Her other publications include writings on xenophobic violence and…
National Symbols Now that the patriots won the Revolution, ditched their first government structure, and wrote a new one while wining and dining at George Washington’s expense, the United States must become “a nation” in our class. I asked my students to name all the ways they “know” they’re in the United States each day.…
A quick follow up to our interview with Thomas Kidd. He is also the editor and co-editor of some tremendous primary source collections on religion in the 18th century. He published one of those marvelous Bedford series books on the Great Awakening, which has 36 documents from a range of folks influenced by the Great…
Baylor Professor Thomas Kidd on the revolutionary era Teaching United States History is lucky to have Thomas S. Kidd, associate professor of history at Baylor University, to discuss the era of the Revolution. Tommy is another amazing scholar, the author of a host of books (including one on evangelicals and Islam from the colonial period…
Crafting and Grading the First Assignments Our comrade at last week’s webinar on using blogs to engage students and faculty, Scott Williams just blogged about how he received his first batch of essays to grade for the semester. His “rambling” reflections led me to think about our first assignment and how in the future I…
A Quarter for Your Thoughts on the Quartering Acts For some reason, my San Diego friends in the military always want to tell me about their housing situations. Last weekend helping a family move out of military housing, the wife explained, “We get this much a month, but if Bobby is deployed, then we get…
Goods and the GoodHere is part 2 of our interview with Professor Linford Fisher. He discusses the kinds of primary sources he likes for the classroom and how to integrate commercial history with religious history in the colonial period. I also want to draw your attention to his marvelous historiographical essay on “Colonial Encounters” in…
Religion, Religions, Religious, and Native Americans in Colonial America We are extremely fortunate to have Dr. Linford Fisher, assistant professor of history at Brown University, for a two-part interview on religion in colonial New England. Fisher is one of the finest young scholars in the field of colonial America and Native American religions. His first book The…
Here is an amazing opportunity for our readers who teach in Community Colleges. The Newberry Library in Chicago will host a seminar on religious pluralism with an all-star cast of scholars to lead them, including Diana Eck, Tisa Wenger, and our own Kevin Schultz. Here’s more info: http://www.newberry.org/sites/default/files/calendar-attachments/FullProjectDescription%20d3%20Boggs.pdf
