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    1. This Spring I’ll be teaching my “backwards survey” of US history, 1848 to the Present, again. Here’s the syllabus: wcm1.web.rice.edu/pdf/hist118sp19.pdf
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    I’ve written before about my past experiments with this way of organizing the survey: wcm1.web.rice.edu/looking-back-on-backwards-survey.html
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      This time around, the “backwards” part, while still the core of the semester, is not the only organizing principle. Inspired by @samwineburg & @SHEG_Stanford, Part 3 uses @AmericanYawp to think “outside the textbook."
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