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      • HSTY 111 U.S. History to Reconstruction (Fall 2021)
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          • Unit 1 Colonial Newspapers Exercise
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      • HSTY 120 American Lives (Spring 2021)
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          • Unit 2: Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum America
          • Unit 3: The First American?
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        • Unit 2: Warriors Don’t Cry Essay
      • HSTY 225 Historiography (Fall 2021)
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      • HSTY 304 The American Revolution (Spring 2021)
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          • Public History Site Visit
          • Stamp Act Twitter Commemoration
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      • HSTY 306 The Early American Republic (Spring 2020)
        • Early United States Elections Project
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      • HSTY 345 Networks and Empires
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      • HSTY 360 Media and Communications in American History (Fall 2019)
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          • Digital Newspapers Project
          • Final Exam
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      • HSTY 450 The Seminar (Fall 2020)
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      • Creating the News (Spring 2011)
      • Revolutionary America (Fall 2010)
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Tag: writing

writing

Novelty and Historical Arguments

10 Aug 2017
I’ve spent much of this summer working on revising my book manuscript based on readers’ reports (huzzah!), which has meant lots of editing, re-reading, new reading to catch up on…
writing

The History of My Own Writing

6 Jul 2016
Over the weekend, I spent some time re-reading my book manuscript on print media and the American Revolution, which was based on my Ph.D. dissertation. Comments came back from the…
writing

Model Writers

1 Jun 2016
Based on an endorsement by Liz Covart, I've been reading Roy Peter Clark's How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times. It's a guide to brief writing (defined as…
Post Office

Post Office Update #1

10 Mar 201610 Mar 2016
In a post a few weeks ago, I half-promised that I might write more frequent updates about my current research project. Inspired by John Fea's updates on his book on…
Professional

Making the Academic-Public Audience Transition

11 Feb 2016
Over the past few weeks a group of historians whom I respect deeply have been debating and discussing the advantages and drawbacks of writing for academic and popular audiences (the…
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