Environmental History and the U.S. Survey Course
As April to turns to May and the Earth’s day, week, and month recede, I…
Browsing: Teaching
Teaching American History in Qatar
Residing outside the United States provides a host of opportunities and challenges for an American…
‘I lie to them’: Food History as Labor History in the Classroom
When I decided to start teaching a class on the history of food in 2013…
National History Day Interviews—Encouraging Our Youngest Historians
Across the country middle school and high school students are learning about the historical process…
Teaching Ancient America
Most survey-level American history classes cover one of two periods: the first concluding somewhere in…
Why Students Don’t Know Anything about Reconstruction: Three Modern Myths
Since the late 1990s, I have been teaching courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction.…
Demonstrating the Value of History
David Trowbridge (Ph.D. Kansas, 2008) is an associate professor in the Department of History at…
Using Our Training to Understand the Decline in History Enrollments
As historians, we are uniquely trained to analyze why History enrollments are down, and thus, to…
The Trump Challenge
When I was in college, my professors regularly declared President Ronald Reagan “insane,” “irrational,” “dangerous,”…
Using Objects in Teaching
I am the Curator of Programs and Education at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology. Because…