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I am not sure about all of you, but mid-semester is rough for me.  I am exhausted, my students are tired, and I find the Fall semester particularly difficult because of the holiday season. A few...

http://www.teachingushistory.co/2019/11/traveling-far-and-away-in-american-history-using-a-movie-to-tackle-the-mid-semester-slump.html

Teaching United States History is gearing up for another academic year with new contributors and new conversations. Stay tuned for more about what we teach, how we do it, and why.

http://www.teachingushistory.co/2018/08/back-soon.html

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the...

http://www.teachingushistory.co/2017/12/agency-counterfactuals-and-utopias-of-past-time.html

Every semester I try something new in the classroom. Sometimes this may involve adding activities such as the fish bowl, working in the archives, or having students write on the board to generate...

http://www.teachingushistory.co/2017/12/mixtape-assignment-in-the-classroom.html

Last month I described how portions of individual class meetings in my American Civil War Era graduate colloquium are dedicated to the art of professional writing. Students are required each week...

http://www.teachingushistory.co/2015/11/peer-review-and-the-graduate-colloquium.html

This is the first year in a while that I haven’t been in front of a classroom or leading a discussion section (how fast does one become rusty at teaching?). Still, I find myself thinking a lot ...

http://www.teachingushistory.co/2015/09/wondering-the-other-75-of-history-education.html

Last spring, I taught two courses that attracted a lot of STEM students. History of medicine always holds appeal for future doctors and my death in America course drew more aspiring engineers and...

http://www.teachingushistory.co/2015/09/teaching-writing-to-stem-students.html

The clock is the real ruler of the history survey. One can begin a semester with a million different goals that involve deconstructing narratives, incorporating historiography, or flipping the cl...

http://www.teachingushistory.co/2015/04/the-end-days-are-nigh-where-to-end-the-us-survey.html

The first two and a half weeks of a semester are the stuff that dreams are made of – attentive students eager to learn and teachers excited to teach. A sense of hope prevails amongst students a...

http://www.teachingushistory.co/2015/02/when-semester-fatigue-sets-in-and-what-i-do-about-it.html

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

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