Teaching

See my blog posts on teaching at the Teaching U.S. History website.

Teaching Techniques:

Writing by Formula

Teaching with Music

Selected Course Materials:

(links probably need updating…)

Media and American Politics

• Syllabus Spring 2020

Nazism and American Culture

• Syllabus Spring 2017

U.S. Economic History

• 2017 Spring HIST ECON Syllabus

America Meets the Modern, 1920-1945

• 2015 Fall HIST 3700 Syllabus
• Spring 2013
• 2013 Spring Honors Seminar on America in Depression and World War II with focus on media and culture.

US II, 1877-present

• Spring 2021 online
• Spring 2020 online
• 2017 Spring HIST1500 Syllabus
• Hybrid, Fall 2016
• Fall 2014: hybrid with thematic title, “Power, Politics, and Pop Culture”
• Spring 2012

Postwar America, 1945-present

• US Since 1968 Syllabus Fall 2019
• Syllabus Fall 2017 America in the Nuclear Age: 1945-1968
• Spring 2016 Syllabus online
• Spring 2015
• 1990s Project Overview: from Fall 2014 course that featured an experimental structure around decades, with research project on the 1990s
• Spring 2012
• hist3120spring2015syllabus-2

American Studies: the 1980s

•  Fall 2014 AMST 1800 Syllabus (occasionally team taught with Ben Railton)