Teaching How Historians Work: Introducing the #AHRSyllabus Project

AHA Session 246
Saturday, January 6, 2024: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Continental Ballroom 4 (Hilton Union Square, Ballroom)
Chair:
Kathleen M. Hilliard, Iowa State University
Papers:
Violence, Power, and American History in Video Games
Tore C. Olsson, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Teaching Things: Material Culture in the History Classroom
Sarah Jones Weicksel, American Historical Association
Crowdsourcing History: Documenting the 1977 National Women’s Conference
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, University of California, Irvine
Teaching Historiography: Holocaust Testimonies and US Reconstruction
Aya Marczyk, Yale University; Abby Reisman, University of Pennsylvania
Comment:
Mark Philip Bradley, University of Chicago and American Historical Review

Session Abstract

This panel introduces the #AHRSyllabus Project, a new initiative in the American Historical Review that brings teaching into the pages of the journal for the first time. This collaborative and collective syllabus is designed to help teachers and students look "under the hood" at how historians in the early twenty-first century do the work of history. Each issue of the AHR will feature one or two teaching modules that foreground innovative uses of historical method in the classroom. The panel offers a preview of forthcoming #AHRSyllabus modules, including teaching with material culture; historical gaming in the classroom; making crowd-sourced collective biographies informed by feminist pedagogies and digital mapping; and innovative approaches to teaching historiography. Designed as a hands-on session we will also engage the audience on the issues and topics they would like to see developed in future #AHRSyllabus modules.
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