Socialism’s Return, in The Nation
In my debut in The Nation‘s Books & the Arts section, I have an essay based on a reading of Bernie Sanders’s two campaign books and two volumes of essays by the left-wing […]
Category Archives: United States
The Soundtrack of the U.S. Survey
This post was published at Teaching U.S. history blog on November 23, 2016, but has been updated here with some new entries. Like many other professors do, I’ve integrated good deal […]
Syllabus Spring 2017: U.S. history survey, since 1865
History 1302 History of the United States since 1865 Professor Patrick Iber Spring 2017 / Tuesday & Thursday 10:30-11:50AM Physical Science 208 Course description and […]
Whoopee cushions in the Memory Palace: On Comedy and the History Curriculum
My final post for Teaching United States history: In 2012, a study of news habits revealed that those who watched the partisan outlets Fox or MSNBC were actually less informed […]
How can we get the most out of small group discussion in large classes?
My latest post for the Teaching United States history blog is up. One of the perennial challenges of the U.S. history survey is that its classes tend to be large. […]
How can we use response software to generate discussion in large classes?
My latest for the Teaching United States History blog: As I’ve written previously, I’ve structured my survey this semester around publicly available primary documents and “clicker” software. This software allows […]
On the dilemma of quoting racial slurs in lecture
My second post for the Teaching United States history group is up. Here it is: Part of teaching the history of the United States is teaching the history of ideologies […]
