How to Discuss a Book for History
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.
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.
What would happen if historians made their research notes public? What would it look like to make our notebooks "open source"?
An essay I wrote in 2012 about my plans to teach a US history survey backwards, starting in the present and moving back to 1848.
A nerdy description of how I used Pandoc and Markdown to write an entire book in plain text.
Some tips for users of the Mutt email client, written in 2012.