The past is present
Students identifying source types often conflate digitally accessed journal or newspaper articles with websites in general. It is important that educators do not take for granted that students understand that the digital sources they are using can often be traced to a physical item.
Working at a public history site is a reminder that no community is monolithic or similar-minded. Even at James Monroe's Highland more localized communities are composed of diverse needs, questions, and missions.
This course traces hip hop culture's emergence and development in the United States and globally from the 1970s to the present. With a strong emphasis on rap music, the course investigates the culture's intersections with local, urban, and regional histories, as well as technology, politics, capitalism, race, gender, sexuality, and class.
For history education in college today, instructors must engage students with humanities research in meaningful ways. This piece outlines the procedure of the project, from recruiting students to engaging them in community-based research, and can be adapted to other topics and locations.
The historian's training prepares them for diverse career paths, but departments must better relate the component skills of historical research to the responsibilities of non-academic professions.
What can history faculty do when a student is interested in a historical subject that is not covered by offerings in the course catalog?
We are always learning new things about the past, and that's good. As we learn more, we are also obligated to share these new discoveries to our public. That is currently what we are doing at James Monroe's Highland: telling new, more truthful stories about a place with a complicated historical and institutional history.
The Business of History syllabus challenges students to merge the often creative, open-ended nature of academic inquiry with the outcomes-oriented and deadline-driven world of business.
Barbie has been breaking barriers for over 60 years—but can she be characterized as a feminist?
The podcast review assignment is an engaging way to teach students basic historical skills while giving them the agency to explore historical topics of their choosing.
Clio and the Contemporary 