The death of the 100-year old former president Jimmy Carter on December 29, 2024, has occasioned much reflection on his remarkable life, career, and decades of public service. In that spirit, I’d like to share a happy memory of a…
Happy New Year! Or, How I Spent My Summer Vacation (Archive Post)
(originally posted at Juvenile Instructor 5/18/2013) This post is part of my occasional postings that try to make academia’s processes more transparent, especially to benefit prospective & junior faculty. So this public service announcement brought to you by the merrie…
New Ways to Read Old Books (Archive Post)
Doing some housecleaning in Summer 2018, to simplify the navigation and site map, so I’m archiving some old content into blog posts. (Originally from 5/30/2015; links may not be active) Workshop, “New Ways to Read Old Books: New Strategies for…
Got Mormon Women? (Archive Post)
Doing some housecleaning in Summer 2018, to simplify the navigation and site map, so I’m archiving some old content into blog posts. (Originally from 3/15/2012; links may not be active) This page was assembled for a presentation on the history…
Tech Tools for Academic Success (Archive Post)
Doing some housecleaning in Summer 2018, to simplify the navigation and site map, so I’m archiving some old content into blog posts. (Originally from 2014; links may not be active) Resources for Worcester State Honors student workshop, “Tech Tools for…
Teaching with Archival Material (Archive Post)
Doing some housecleaning in Summer 2018, to simplify the navigation and site map, so I’m archiving some old content into blog posts. (Archived from May/June 2012; links may no longer be active) This page is created for a NERCOMP session,…
Digital History in My Classrooms (Archive Post)
Doing some housecleaning in Summer 2018, to simplify the navigation and site map, so I’m archiving some old content into blog posts. (Archived from October 2009; links may no longer be active) On October 17, 2009 I presented a paper…
You Can Never Go Home Again, But If You Do, You Might Pick Up Some Tips
Usually pre-semester dreams are full of dread and stress, but this morning I woke up feeling like I might actually have gotten something good from my brain’s nocturnal wanderings. At the risk of subjecting myself to armchair psychotherapy by revealing…
Intro to Film Studies: A Guest Lecturing Day
I have just begun a semester-long sabbatical (huzzah!) and so I suddenly have a great deal more discretionary time, including, let’s hope, for blogging now and then. As a breather from my hitting the books, I had the very cheerful…
Building a Hypothesis: A Teaching Exercise
[Cross-posted to Teaching United States History] In the spirit of continuing my week of post-conference active learning to stave off end-of-term slacking (theirs AND mine)… here’s another one that worked especially well this past week. I should explain – many of my…