Teaching

United States History Since 1865, Honors

University of North Texas
Fall 2025

Out of Many: U.S. History to 1877

This course offers a survey of social, political, economic and cultural transformations in American history, from European colonization through Reconstruction. Central themes include interactions between people across nation, race, gender, and class lines; establishment and growth of political systems; the development of slavery and race; social movements; sectional tensions; and vast changes in transportation and the economy. Although primarily focused on the geographic region which became the modern-day United States, the course also considers the U.S. as part of a global system of exchange. This helps students see how American events are connected to broader international developments. In addition to studying historical content, this course will introduce students to the methods used in the discipline of history. Students will learn how to analyze historical primary sources, read critically, contextualize information, make inferences, consider alternative perspectives, and construct arguments. Finally, this course will help students draw lessons from the past which inform contemporary issues and decision making for the future.

Southern Methodist University, Spring 2025

Digital History: Uncovering Early America

This course teaches students to use digital tools and methods to discover new insights about early American history. We will focus on people, events, and sources from the colonial era, the American Revolution, and the
early American Republic. The class will prioritize doing history—teaching the fundamentals of digital technology by applying them to practical historical problems. Over the course of the semester, students will learn how to find, use, verify, interpret, and analyze historical primary sources online, while also putting them in context with secondary scholarly sources. Students will also discover how digital tools can be used to ask new questions, build historical arguments, analyze datasets, create visualizations, construct digital maps, and present visual and textural work effectively online. By completing a series of small digital projects— culminating in an online visualization essay at the end of the semester—students will gain valuable digital and historical thinking skills and a greater understanding of the early American past.

Southern Methodist University, Spring 2024

The Digital Past: Early America

In this course, which satisfies the University’s IT requirement, you will use digital tools to study the past. The historical focus of this course will be early American history, including the colonial era, American Revolution, and early American Republic. The class will prioritize doing history—teaching the fundamentals of information technology by applying them to practical historical problems. Over the course of the semester you will learn how to find, use, verify, interpret and analyze historical primary sources online, while also putting them in context with secondary scholarly sources. You will also discover how digital tools can be used to ask new questions, build historical arguments, analyze datasets, create visualizations, and present visual and textural work effectively online. By completing a series of small digital projects, you will not only gain valuable digital skills, but also historical thinking skills—two skill sets which will be valuable for your university work, and in your future career. 

George Mason University, Summer 2021