Teaching United States History

September has to be the busiest month of the year. New courses, committee meetings, student organizations, campus events, research, writing,...

We'll see you next fall with new conversations and a few new voices.  Stay tuned.

Recently, a panel of distinguished historians and authors discussed how they create American History textbooks.  General agreement?  Studen...

Despite its exciting growth over the past couple of decades, disability history still gets relatively little little space in U.S. h...

Like most Ph.D. students (especially in the humanities), most of my thoughts during the last two years of graduate school centered on one qu...

The title of this post is a little misleading. I'm actually building a course, and have run into some thorny questions. This fall I...

In the spirit of continuing my week of post-conference active learning to stave off end-of-term slacking (theirs AND mine)... here's a...

Hey, I just got back from the OAH last week also, which had two consequences: returning to campus invigorated with a renewed willingness t...

I just got back from the OAH meeting in Atlanta.   It was a great weekend.   One of the panels that I was most excited to attend was the SH...

Today marks 149 years since Abraham Lincoln got shot at the theater, dying the next day from the head wound. So I t...

Today I'm lecturing on revivalism and reform movements in the 1820s-1840s. In preparation for today's discussion, my students read t...

Six weeks ago, my colleague John Marks and I organized and hosted an exciting event at Rice University. “Race and Nati...