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As a professor of history, I am generally more inclined to show film clips from documentaries (occasionally showing one in its entirety) than I am to show feature films. My favorites for women’s history courses are A Midwife’s Tale, The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, and No más Bebés. For my U.S. History… Continue reading Film and Digital Storytelling for History Classrooms

I reviewed the historical drama, “Iron Jawed Angels,” a 2004 HBO Films production directed by Katja Von Garnier. The film tells the story of suffrage radicals Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and Lucy Burns (Frances O’Connor) and their role in the fight for the 19th Amendment.  This is a story I teach, and many students report… Continue reading “Iron Jawed Angels”: A Review for Instructors

Research Update I have read the introductory essay by Sally Miller in Pacific Historian about her Stockton immigration project. In addition to the ten essays that were published in Pacific Historian in 1980-81, Miller organized a conference and three seminars concerning Stockton immigrant women.[1] I have also begun to write a bibliography of important readings… Continue reading “We Also Built Stockton”: Project Update 1

My project is a digital collection of oral history interviews completed in the 1980s of Stockton immigrant women accompanied by teaching tools. I aim to align my project with the core competencies and learning outcomes outlined by the American Historical Association’s (AHA) Tuning Project (2016). The project works to bring historians together “to spell out… Continue reading The AHA Tuning Project and the “We Also Built Stockton” Website

Historical thinking–examining primary sources, contextualizing and corroborating them, and forming interpretive narratives–has been a staple of the historical profession since Herodotus and Thucydides debated sources. What has shifted is the concern over how history is taught and how we assess student learning, particularly to young people who will not be historians themselves.  This contest over… Continue reading Elements at the Heart of History Teaching

My project will be a digital collection with teaching tools for my US Women’s History class. I am inspired by the Bracero History Archive, which collects and makes available oral histories and artifacts about the Bracero program. In the early 1980s, Sally Miller, Professor of History at University of the Pacific, and her students interviewed… Continue reading We Also Built Stockton: Experiences of Immigrant Women in Stockton, California

In this blog, I pose three questions that I hope to answer in Teaching and Learning History in the Digital Age. These are questions that I grapple with every year when I teach the U.S. survey to non-history majors, many of whom will never take another history class. Below, I discuss several key concepts about… Continue reading Historical Thinking: Key Concepts

I am a historian of U.S. women and girls with a growing interest in digital humanities. I am a Professor of History at the University of the Pacific (UOP) in Stockton, California. I serve as Chair of the History Department and as a member of UOP’s Gender Studies Board. Over the last two semesters, I… Continue reading Introductory Blog Post for Teaching and Learning History in the Digital Age

In HIST 694: Digital Public History at George Mason University, I have learned more about the work of doing public history online. The course is rooted in understanding the purpose and practice of public history and it explores methods for doing public history in digital spaces. I especially learned about the foundations of the field,… Continue reading Digital Public History: A Reflection