When I go to record a lecture for my online or hybrid courses, I always feel a bit…unflashy. I think that’s because I’ve become an avid listener of podcasts, which offer much more engaging conversations and reconstructions of historical events and moments than I am able to provide with my PowerPoints and screencasts. Perhaps I’m…
This post describes the materials found in the archive of historian Roland Marchand, including one example of an incorporation of one of his documentary source problems.
Last semester I went back to basics. My previous offering of Postwar America (1945-present) had been an experiment with a theme of interrogating decades. After this one-time experiment, which was fun but ended up being a lot of extra work both for me and the students, I decided to go back to a traditional lecture-discussion…
