Conference to Classroom
We’ve had a bit of a hiatus on blog posts, as well a bit of a break in the class... Continue reading →
Writing for Aunt Marilyn: Involving Students in Public Humanities
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
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!
So, the students have entered, in at least partial form, 338 articles as of now. Thanks to Paper Machines, we... Continue reading →
Midterm day – or, what do you do when you’re giving an exam?
Midterm day is here. This means two things. The first is that I get to find out if the students have... Continue reading →
A different answer to the same question…
Different people answer the same question in different ways. Thank heavens, because that’s what makes teaching interesting. Matthew Cressler at the... Continue reading →
Telling old stories
In class yesterday we covered the background necessary to give us a common vocabulary to talk about Christianity in American history.... Continue reading →