I’ve gotten quite a bit done over the past few weeks, including a very rough draft of my essay on the demobilization of the Army of Northern Virginia which will [...]
Today my AP classes started Reconstruction. I always enjoy teaching this section of U.S. History and given that we are using a text by Eric Foner, my students get the [...]
One of this blog’s readers recently emailed some thoughts about the conference that Mark Grimsley is organizing at Ohio State. Given that I am in the middle of a blog [...]
It happens every year in at least one of my classes and usually around the time of Reconstruction. One of my students comments or asks a question that reveals a [...]
This week I will be teaching Reconstruction. I am putting primary documents together, slides, and segments of movies, including Birth of a Nation and Gone With The Wind. We will [...]
