It is the responsibility of legal historians to help victims of sexual assault by linking the past and present landscapes.
Sexual Violence in American Localities: The Role of the Legal Historian
Game Schedule—After a Long Battle: Congressional Response to the AIDS Epidemic, 1982–1985
See how to schedule and organize a Reacting to the Past Game, with examples from After a Long Battle: Congressional Responses to the AIDS Epidemic, 1982-1985.
History of Illness and Medicine in America: Pandemics—Syllabus
This course surveys the history of illness and medicine in the US with a focus on viral pandemics, the developments of treatments and prevention, and the experiences of patients, families, medical professionals, researchers, activists, and politicians.
Reacting to the Past: Using Historical Games in College Classrooms
Interested in adding a historical game to your history class but don't know where to start? Adding a Reacting to the Past game can be a great way to engage students and delve into specific historical events.
College Level Library Instruction for History Students: Finding and Understanding Periodicals
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.
Engaging Different Communities of Stakeholders at James Monroe’s Highland
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.
The History of Hip-Hop Culture in America—Syllabus
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.
Teaching the History of Chinese Western New York Beyond the Classroom
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.
Legislative & Public Policy Research for Local Government
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.
Reconceptualizing the Independent Study
What can history faculty do when a student is interested in a historical subject that is not covered by offerings in the course catalog?
Clio and the Contemporary 