The First 100 Days of Trump 2.0: A Foreign Policy Assessment

The first 100 days of President Trump's second term marks a departure from established US foreign policy, focusing on dismantling international aid and agreements. His administration’s actions, including cuts to USAID and skepticism toward NATO, jeopardize global partnerships. Trump's approach favors unilateralism and transactional relations over multilateral cooperation, risking America's leadership and security in an increasingly authoritarian world.

April 30, 2025 1

“To Root Against Your Country”: Crisis, Dissent, and Patriotism Under Nixon and Trump

While the realities of 2025 are in some ways unprecedented, Americans have felt this way before. The history of the late 1960s–early 1970s—assassinations, the Vietnam War, the Nixon presidency—reminds us that previous generations pushed back against what felt like insurmountable challenges.

April 30, 2025 1

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.

June 24, 2024 1

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.

June 24, 2024 2

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.

June 24, 2024 2

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.

October 16, 2023 0

Barbie Through the Decades: A History of Barbie, Feminism, and the New Barbie Movie

Barbie has been breaking barriers for over 60 years—but can she be characterized as a feminist?

August 10, 2023 1

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.

June 26, 2023 0

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.

June 26, 2023 1

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.

June 14, 2023 0

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