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    End of the Semester, end of the blog, and Hamilton

    posted on May 3, 2016 by Katherine Carte | No comments

    As every semester does, this one has come to an end. Students are writing their take home exams, professors are... Continue reading →

    Historical Analogies

    posted on April 19, 2016 by Katherine Carte | Comments Off on Historical Analogies

    Today I was very pleased to read Lin Fisher’s great article over at Vox about the perils of historical analogies.... Continue reading →

    Conference to Classroom

    posted on April 11, 2016 by Katherine Carte | No comments

    We’ve had a bit of a hiatus on blog posts, as well a bit of a break in the class... Continue reading →

    Outlining Religion and the American Revolution

    posted on April 2, 2016 by Katherine Carte | No comments

    Since I started working on the subject of religion and the American Revolution, the central question has been: “what does that... Continue reading →

    Everything Old is New Again (sort of)

    posted on March 30, 2016 by Katherine Carte | No comments

    For class yesterday we read Edmund Morgan’s classic article, “Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox.” The article is forty-three years... Continue reading →

    Writing for Aunt Marilyn: Involving Students in Public Humanities

    posted on March 25, 2016 by Katherine Carte | No comments

    In class today, I gave students my regular spiel about writing for their Aunt Marilyn. The gender and name of this... Continue reading →

    Notes from the week after Spring Break, or, Challenges of a Digital Humanities History Classroom 

    posted on March 18, 2016 by Katherine Carte | No comments

    We’re half way through our shared project of transcribing newspaper articles from the revolutionary era so we can analyze them... Continue reading →

    Getting ready to clean some data!

    posted on March 15, 2016 by Katherine Carte | No comments

    So, the students have entered, in at least partial form, 338 articles as of now.  Thanks to Paper Machines, we... Continue reading →

    Principles, principles, principles

    posted on March 8, 2016 by Katherine Carte | No comments

    I have been a bit surprised, in this chaotic, fascinating, maddening, terrifying election cycle, how infrequently the principles of the... Continue reading →

    Timeless topics

    posted on February 29, 2016 by Katherine Carte | No comments

    And we’re off!  Students have selected topics, related to religion and the American Revolution, that they will be researching in... Continue reading →

    Keywords for religion and the American Revolution

    posted on February 24, 2016 by Katherine Carte | No comments

    We’re starting part II of the semester: building a shared database about religion and the American Revolution using a group... Continue reading →

    Midterm day – or, what do you do when you’re giving an exam?

    posted on February 18, 2016 by Katherine Carte | No comments

    Midterm day is here.  This means two things.  The first is that I get to find out if the students have... Continue reading →

    Evangelicals? or how current events, class, and my writing on the American Revolution intertwine…

    posted on February 11, 2016 by Katherine Carte | No comments

    So we’re up to religion and the revolution!  In other words, I’m home and we’re going to linger here for... Continue reading →

    Thomas Kidd and Marco Rubio

    posted on February 10, 2016 by Katherine Carte | No comments

    Many thanks to Jessica Parr, who saw yesterday’s post and forwarded the tidbit that Thomas Kidd is serving as an advisor... Continue reading →

    Religious Liberty

    posted on February 9, 2016 by Katherine Carte | No comments

    Today in class we’re going to be discussing one of my least favorite subjects: religious liberty.  It’s my least favorite... Continue reading →

    Politics and history

    posted on February 2, 2016 by Katherine Carte | No comments

    Wonderful post at Flat Hill analyzing Politifact’s checking of historical statements.  Lots of meat here for our project later this... Continue reading →

    A different answer to the same question…

    posted on February 2, 2016 by Katherine Carte | No comments

    Different people answer the same question in different ways.  Thank heavens, because that’s what makes teaching interesting.  Matthew Cressler at the... Continue reading →

    Columbus and intellectual certainty

    posted on January 28, 2016 by Katherine Carte | No comments

    It’s widely known that Columbus made a lot of mistakes.  Not just moral mistakes, but practical ones.  He was not,... Continue reading →

    Telling old stories

    posted on January 22, 2016 by Katherine Carte | No comments

    In class yesterday we covered the background necessary to give us a common vocabulary to talk about Christianity in American history.... Continue reading →

    Thoughts on Star Wars and Christianity in Early America

    posted on January 21, 2016 by Katherine Carte | No comments

    As a get-to-know-you exercise in class today, I asked students to say whether they’d seen The Force Awakens over the holiday.... Continue reading →

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