By Madeline Hsu Several UT history faculty, including Daina Berry, Madeline Hsu, Peniel Joseph, Jeremi Suri, and Provost Maurie McInnis, extend their expertise to K-12 classrooms by teaching for the Pace-GLI Master of Arts in American History, with courses such as “The Lives of the Enslaved” and “American Immigration History.” GLI, or the Gilder Lehrman […]
Teaching Methods
The Anthropocene and Environmental History
By Jesse Ritner If you open a textbook on geology and flip through to the chapter on geological time it will tell you we are currently living in the epoch of the Holocene. The Holocene started approximately 10,000 years before present with the end of the last ice age. However, research by a diverse array […]
Standish Meacham and Multiculturalism in the Public University
By Carson Wright “What are you going to do with your degree?” This one question, asked by well-meaning family members at Thanksgiving dinner and smug strangers over the Internet alike, embodies one of the biggest obstacles to the study of the humanities today: the notion that a college degree’s main purpose should be to serve […]
Responses from Authors of the NAS Report on Teaching US History at UT
Below you will find two responses we received to my blog about the report of the National Association of Scholars on the teaching of US History at UT and TAMU.
From the Editor: On the Report by The National Association of Scholars about US History at UT
This week the National Association of Scholars released a report critical of the ways US History is taught at the University of Texas at Austin and at Texas A & M.
K-12 Teachers at UT to Study US Foreign Policy
Professor Jeremi Suri to Lead K-12 Gilder Lehrman Seminar on American Foreign Policy Since 1898
If you would like to follow along, search for this hashtag on Twitter: #GLI2012
Teaching Texas
This summer, Not Even Past will feature the winners of this year’s Texas History Day, the annual state-wide history fair for students grades 6-12.
An Ode to a High School History Teacher: Or, What 9/11 Means to Me Today
In 2001, I was a junior at the Bronx High School of Science in New York City. On the morning of September 11th, I was sitting in my second period AP US History class, taught by Dr. Melvin Maskin. On days when he was feeling particularly enthusiastic about a lesson, he’d scrawl things like, “The Doc is IN DA HOUSE” on the blackboard. He was always doing things like that: making silly jokes or referencing song lyrics in tests, to get us excited about settling in for a class period of history.