A couple weeks ago, we took up the subject of legalized segregation in the nineteenth-century South. We talked about Jim Crow and how that played out at the time, as well as how the mindset of racism permeated society then and now. We discussed lynching and how it wasn’t just about killing or death, but [...]
I think the hardest thing about writing a dissertation is that it takes so damn long. I know, right? After six and a half years of graduate school, that’s my great revelation: writing a dissertation takes a long time. I’ll be accepting my Nobel Prize any minute now for this great contribution to knowledge. But [...]
As a teacher, and maybe especially as a history teacher, you have to understand that students aren’t going to have the same passion for the subject that you have. They’re not going to retain things. They’re not going to fully grasp everything you’re telling them. Heck, they probably won’t be able to tell you your [...]