Like Chris Gehrz, I am starting to stress about the Fall semester. I am teaching the U.S. Survey course to 180 students in a 790 seat recital hall. (We will have ten smaller weekly seminars in other socially distanced classrooms)....
We’ve all gone to a history lecture and said WOW, “I could listen to that speaker all day.” Who are your favorite history lecturers? I am not referring as much to classroom teachers as I am people who can hold...
For the last few years I have been honored to serve as an Organization of American Historians (OAH) Distinguished Lecturer. Â You can learn more about the Distinguished Lectureship Program, and see a list of other lecturers, here. In the wake...
Get up to speed here. Burstein‘s post is titled “How to write an essay about teaching that will not be published in the NYT, Chronicle, IHE, or anywhere else.” From “The Little Professor” blog: 1) There are many pedagogical techniques....
Is the lecture dead?  Not according to Molly Worthen, the University of North Carolina history professor and the author of Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism.  In today’s New York Times she defends the lecture.  Here is...
I am currently working with the tech people and my academic dean at Messiah College to put together a mini- iTunes class tentatively titled “An Introduction to Everyday Life in Early America.” The course will mostly focus on eighteenth-century evangelicalism,...
