The past is present
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.
Teaching about historical and public memory should challenge students to think and interpret outside the classroom. This course empowered students to serve as producers of their own sites of memory.
This course explores historical "happenings" and their interpretations after 1945 with a heightened focus on if/how the United States has maintained, strengthened, and perpetuated its image of global excellence.
Many Russian historians have advanced a “colonization but” argument—Russia history is a history of colonization but not the same kind of colonization that the UK, France, and others undertook. The task is to move to a “colonization and” stance. Yes, it was colonization, and we must write histories that confront power with truth.
Clio and the Contemporary 