Looking Back on the Backwards Survey
An essay from 2015 reflecting on lessons I learned from teaching a US history survey course backwards.
An essay from 2015 reflecting on lessons I learned from teaching a US history survey course backwards.
A narrative rubric designed to help students assess their own progress towards proficiency in historical thinking.
How and why I created a Twitter bot, Every3Minutes, that attempts to convey the horrors of the domestic slave trade in the antebellum US.
These are the prepared remarks for my talk at the 2014 OAH Annual Meeting in Atlanta, originally entitled Refugeed Slaves and the Confederate Rehearsal for Reconstruction.
Tips for students on how to discuss a book they have read for a history course. Intended to be read alongside my post on reading.
This post, drawn from a larger project on slavery and its aftermath in Texas, explores the question of how many enslaved people were forcibly brought to Texas during the Civil War.