Barbie has been breaking barriers for over 60 years—but can she be characterized as a feminist?
Barbie Through the Decades: A History of Barbie, Feminism, and the New Barbie Movie
Podcast Response Assignment for the US History Survey
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.
Global Human Rights and Memory in the Public History Classroom
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.
HIST 211: Post-1945 United States Memory and Human Rights—Syllabus
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.
What Does Decolonizing Russian History Mean?: Moving from “Colonization but” to “Colonization and” Frameworks
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.
America in the 1990s—Syllabus
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.
How to Get Students to Read Like Historians with Perusall
For history courses, Perusall is an especially useful tool because it can guide students through different types of sources and modes of reading.
A Beginner’s Guide to the Perusall Assessment
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.
#Scholars4WGA – Why Everyone in Academia Should Support the Writer’s Strike
Scholars need to pay very close attention to how the writer‘s strike unfolds, because we are actually facing the same issues, and are fighting the same enemy: late stage capitalism.
Tips for Preparing for International Research Trips
Foreign research trips can be exciting for graduate students, but once you sit down to plan the trip, that excitement can quickly turn into anxiety. Here are some tips to ensure that you make the most of your time abroad.
Clio and the Contemporary 