The past is present
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.
This course traces the history of the United States during the 1990s. It pays particular attention to the politics of the era, as well as the cultural texts (songs, films, and other phenomena) that both reflected and shaped the period.
For history courses, Perusall is an especially useful tool because it can guide students through different types of sources and modes of reading.
Perusall is an online social annotation tool that aims to increase student engagement with course materials. Here is a quick guide to setting up your course with a discussion of assignment options and some suggestions for how to help students make the most of it.
Clio and the Contemporary 