T-Pain Against the Machine: How Mid-2000s Hip Hop Can Inspire College Students to Skip the AI and Find Their Own Voice

T-Pain’s stunning, stripped-down vocal performance on the Tiny Desk version of “Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin’)” makes it clear that he’s got the organic vocal chops to “sound good” without any digital assistance. Through T-Pain's example, students see that we must first know what our own voices are capable of to then explore what technology might do to expand, enhance, or embellish our creative endeavors.

September 2, 2025 0

Presenting at your First Undergraduate Academic Conference: A Guide FOR Students BY Students

Presenting original research at an academic conference is a major achievement for undergraduate students. Take some advice from undergrads who have not only survived their first academic conference, but thrived.

July 12, 2025 2

10 Tips for Building Community in Your History Department—and Getting the Credit You Deserve

Student leaders of University of Richmond’s Phi Alpha Theta (PAT) chapter with the author at the chapter’s induction ceremony, 2024

Community building among students is not only worth the time and effort, but also—with a little finesse—can be done efficiently and leveraged strategically for tenure, promotion, and merit raises.

March 26, 2025 0

Historians Should Learn To Code

Historians need coding skills to enhance research capabilities and critically engage with digital technologies shaping the modern world.

October 31, 2024 0

The Student Becomes the Teacher: Tips and Advice for Your First Semester as a TA

New to TAing? Learn how to prep your first class, lead discussion, and find the support you need to make it through.

August 27, 2024 1

Call for Papers | History Beyond the Classroom: Undergraduate Mentorship in the 2020s

We invite innovative instructors who teach history beyond the conventions of the classroom and meet the challenges of the moment to contribute to the "History Beyond the Classroom" series .

August 24, 2024 0

Undergraduate Publication Mentoring

If you teach a class in which students write a research paper, give undergraduate publication mentoring a try.

August 7, 2024 0

A Global History of Lies: Rumors, Conspiracy Theories, and Hoaxes–Syllabus

"A Global History of Lies" starts in the present. We consider how a confluence of technological, economic, political and social forces has reshaped the contours and possibilities of misinformation and disinformation and their role in the development of rumors, conspiracy theories, and hoaxes. We then trace the arc of conspiratorial thinking and rumors from the sixteenth century through the era of Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro, Orban, and Erdogan.

July 3, 2024 2

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

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