HIST 120… Fall 2017 Book Orders 15 May 201715 May 2017 Below are the required texts for my courses for the upcoming semester. For students, please note that these texts will be on reserve at Whittemore Library, and that I do…
HSTA 306… HSTA 306: Response to Baptist 31 Mar 2017 For historians, a book review is an opportunity both to assess the quality of a historical work and to place the author’s argument in conversation with other scholarship. At its…
Commentary… Focusing While Commuting 23 Jun 201623 Jun 2016 As an early Americanist, the Omohundro Institute's annual conference is always high on my list of events to attend each summer (and more so now that I work for the…
Commentary… Public Education and Private Access 12 May 2016 On Monday of this week I found out that I'm going to need to change many of the research assignments I use in my courses-. For years, the Boston Public Library has provided…
Commentary… What If My Voice Doesn’t Matter? 26 Feb 201625 Feb 2016 This week at my university, faculty across campus have been conducting a teach-in relating our subjects to the Black Lives Matter movement as a way to facilitate discussion and conversation…
Teaching Spring 2016 Courses 18 Jan 2016 The "spring" semester begins tomorrow, so it's high time my syllabi are done and put to bed. Here's what I'll be teaching: HIST 151 U.S. History to Reconstruction It's the first half…
HIST 120… Over-Identification and the History of the Present 3 Jan 2016 Having recently finished teaching a course on autobiographies and memoirs, I took a break during the holidays ... to read multiple memoirs. Oh well. One of them came on the…
HSTA 304… Perfectly Practical Tips for Using Twitter 17 Sep 201518 Sep 2015 Jointly authored by Liz Covart and Joseph Adelman. Twitter is a deceptively simple tool. With just 140 characters to work with, it can seem at times like it takes barely any work…
HSTA 304… Accessing the Early American Imprints Database 9 Sep 201518 Sep 2015 What follows is a rudimentary guide to how to access the Early American Imprints database, with a brief background on what it is and the steps to take to find…
Teaching Fall 2015 Courses 26 Aug 2015 The semester is still a few days away here in Massachusetts, which means that I'm just finishing up syllabi as I watch my friends talk about their first class meetings on campuses far…