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Teaching History and STEM of Trans-Atlantic Slave Voyages

Slave Voyages Database Analysis Social History developed as a historiographical force in the 1960s and 1970s. It involves looking at hum...

AHA Article: Professional Skills, Historical Thinking Supplement

Greetings! I have had a few requests for additional information regarding my Microsoft Teams classroom column at the AHA Perspectives Dai...

Book Review: A Historian's view of Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

Interested in reading African/Arab literature? Thinking about books for your students to read in a World History or World Lit class? Want...

Sensual Empires: Britain and America in India and the Philippines, Book Review of Empire of the Sens

The five senses helps us navigate nature but, according to historian Andrew J. Rotter, they can also help us construct an empire. Rotter ...

American Council of Learned Societies Fellow 2020

I am honored to be receive this support from the ACLS, which will help me work on my second book tentatively titled The Affinity of War: ...

Book Review of John Lewis's March, Volume 3

Graphic novels have reinvented the way that we approach the past. Here is a review of Lewis's graphic memoirs about his experiences in th...

Breaking Lincoln's Promise

Here is the Op-ed I wrote for the History News Network on how President Trump's comments about soldiers at Aisne-Marne cemetery being "su...

Death at the Edges of Empire Reviewed in Wall Street Journal

My book was reviewed by Randall Fuller in the Wall Street Journal over the Memorial Day Weekend. Professor Fuller, who is the Herman Melv...

Death at the Edges of Empire made it to the Best New American Civil War Books

I'm happy to announce that my book, "Death at the Edges of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Natio...

An Inverted Odyssey: Homer's Greeks in the First World War, A Film Review of 1917

Sam Mendes’s film, 1917, situates the first world war in the canon of western civilization. Less about history, 1917 seeks to capture the...

Death at the Edges of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation

Americans, since the time of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, have developed a collective memory of empire that could be hidden, p...

Book Trailer

This is the trailer for my book Death at the Edges of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation, 186...

The Affinity of War: Traveling Memory, the War Dead, and the American Empire in France.

Memories travel. When people tour or go on pilgrimages they share their memories with those they come into contact. People who can afford...

Mnemosyne Atlas Digital Guided Tour

Panel 8 of the Mnemosyne Atlas, "The Labor of Empire: Discovering and Producing Imperial Knowledge," is a prototype of the project for de...

History But Not Memory

Monuments are historical and memorial but not in the way that most people think. Monuments are historical but do not represent history. T...

Film Review of The Photographer of Mauthausen

A historian's review of the Netflix film The Photographer of Mauthausen. This film tells the story of Francisco Boix, a Spanish/Catalan...

Why Study History?

What do Actor/Comedian Steve Carell, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and Republican Presidential Candidate, Carly Fiorina, and Supreme Cour...

Pizza, PechaKucha, and Pedagogy

https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/february-2015/pizza-pechakucha-and-pedagogy

Incorporating the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds into the US History Survey

https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/november-2015/incorporating-the-atlantic-and-pacific-worl...

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