Shit I Have to Teach in Twenty Minutes

S1/E21 The Early Ottoman Empire with Alan Mikhail

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2512015/fan_mail/new] Eric and Rob sit down with Dr. Alan Mikhail [https://history.yale.edu/people/alan-mikhail] to discuss teaching the early Ottoman Empire.   Dr. Mikhail is the Chance Family Professor of History at Yale University. His fields of interest include the Middle East, the Early Modern Muslim World, the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Early Modern History, Environmental History and the History of Medicine. He is the author of many award winning books including God’s Shadow:  Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World which won the Gold Medal in World History and was long listed for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence.  Dr. Mikhail notes several important concepts that should be considered when teaching the early Ottoman empire.  First, teachers should note the longevity of the Ottoman Empire.  Also, its location between Europe, Asia, and Africa placed it at the center of trade and communication for all those regions, giving it a significant influence on the histories of its neighbors.  The empire was led by one dynasty, and the politics of succession were often filled with intrigue as various members of the Harem conspired to place their son on the throne.  He concludes by discussing the importance of Sultan Selim who is often overshadowed in history books by his son, Suileman, but who doubled the size of the empire through conquest in a short but consequential reign.   Lesson Plans and resources: The “Creating a Timeline of the Early Ottoman Empire” [https://bit.ly/4eB0dGB] lesson can be found at https://bit.ly/4eB0dGB The “Who's calling Whom Magnificent" [https://bit.ly/4eIyh2g] lesson can be found at https://bit.ly/4eIyh2g Credits Opening theme music, “Bossa Bossa,” created by Clare Howard www.clarehoward.com [http://www.clarehoward.com]  Music supported by the National Council for History Education www.ncheteach.org [http://www.ncheteach.org] Transition theme music, “The Clock is Ticking,” created by Emily Hahn. Logo artwork created by Jessica Goldman. Shit I Have to Teach in 20 Minutes is produced by Eric Hahn and Rob Good.  Audio and video editing by Sebastian Rosales. Email us at historyintwenty@gmail.com [historyintwenty@gmail.com] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@historyintwenty Instagram:historyintwenty

S1/E20 The Age of Jackson with Christina Snyder

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2512015/fan_mail/new] Dr. Chrisitina Snyder [https://history.la.psu.edu/directory/christina-snyder/] sits down with Eric and Rob to discuss ways to teach about the Age of Jackson.   Dr. Snyder is the McCabe Greer Professor of History at Penn State University.  She is an historian of colonialism, race, and slavery, with a focus on North America from the pre-contact era through the late nineteenth century.  Christina shares ideas from her award winning book, Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson, which uses a diverse community in Kentucky as a microcosm to demonstrate the profound changes of the era.  She notes that while it is important to discuss the violent nature of Indian removal, teachers should also stress the survival and perseverance of Native people, particularly through their embrace of education.  Similarly, while US history is often marked by violent events, teachers can also explore the efforts of people to work out solutions for peaceful coexistence which was central to why many of the Native students attended Choctaw Academy at Great Crossings.  Finally, this community, which was populated by white settlers, free and enslaved African Americans, and Native Americans who spoke many indigenous as well as European languages, serves as an example of the diversity of antebellum America. Lesson Plans and resources: The Remembering Julia Chinn lesson [https://bit.ly/4uygBfu] can be found at https://bit.ly/4uygBfu The Congressional Debate on the Removal of Indians [https://bit.ly/4vEPCzO] lesson can be found at https://bit.ly/4vEPCzO Credits Opening theme music, “Bossa Bossa,” created by Clare Howard www.clarehoward.com [http://www.clarehoward.com]  Music supported by the National Council for History Education www.ncheteach.org [http://www.ncheteach.org] Transition theme music, “The Clock is Ticking,” created by Emily Hahn. Logo artwork created by Jessica Goldman. Shit I Have to Teach in 20 Minutes is produced by Eric Hahn and Rob Good.  Audio and video editing by Sebastian Rosales. Email us at historyintwenty@gmail.com [historyintwenty@gmail.com] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@historyintwenty Instagram:historyintwenty

S1/E19 The Jefferson Adminstration with Peter Kastor

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2512015/fan_mail/new] Eric and Rob are joined by Dr. Peter Kastor [https://history.washu.edu/people/peter-kastor] to discuss ways to teach about the presidency of Thomas Jefferson.   Dr. Kastor is the Samuel K. Eddy Endowed Professor of History and American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.  He studies the history of politics, policymaking, and culture in the United States. He focuses much of his work on the half-century following American independence.  Peter advises teachers to approach the Jefferson Presidency by examining its domestic policy, its foreign policy, and how it affected the way politics operated.  He notes that Jefferson had several goals during his presidency including calming down partisan division, retiring the U.S. debt, staying out of European wars, and promoting trade and commerce.  Teachers should note the impact of foreign affairs on Jefferson’s presidency.  They resulted in the single most consequential event of Jefferson’s presidency, the Louisiana Purchase.  Both the Louisiana Purchase and staying out of European wars challenged Jefferson's goals.  Governing the Louisiana purchase required an increase in the size and spending of the government, and his Embargo Act led to increased government regulation and domestic conflict.  However, Peter notes that Jefferson normalized the precedents for the presidency set by Washington as well as securing the influence of his Democratic-Republican Party.  As such, his administration was extremely consequential and set a foundation for future presidencies.   Lesson Plans and resources: The Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase lesson [https://bit.ly/4x0S3OH] can be found at https://bit.ly/4x0S3OH The Embargo Act  lesson [https://bit.ly/4dT1JlL] can be found at https://bit.ly/4dT1JlL The Creating the Federal Government, 1789-1829 [https://creatingafederalgovernment.wustl.edu/] website can be found at:  https://creatingafederalgovernment.wustl.edu/ Credits Opening theme music, “Bossa Bossa,” created by Clare Howard www.clarehoward.com [http://www.clarehoward.com]  Music supported by the National Council for History Education www.ncheteach.org [http://www.ncheteach.org] Transition theme music, “The Clock is Ticking,” created by Emily Hahn. Logo artwork created by Jessica Goldman. Shit I Have to Teach in 20 Minutes is produced by Eric Hahn and Rob Good.  Audio and video editing by Sebastian Rosales. Email us at historyintwenty@gmail.com [historyintwenty@gmail.com] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@historyintwenty Instagram:historyintwenty

S1/E18 Reconstruction with Kidada Williams

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2512015/fan_mail/new] Dr. Kidada WIlliams [https://clasprofiles.wayne.edu/profile/bb2756]sits down with Eric and Rob to discuss ways to teach about the Reconstruction era in the United States.  Dr. Williams is a history professor at Wayne State University and she delves into the lives of African American victims and survivors of racist violence. Her work, I Saw Death Coming, was longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Nonfiction and won the 2024 Organization of American Historians’ Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award.  She urges teachers to consider four major concepts when teaching the Reconstruction era in their classrooms.  First, they should discuss what the congressional and constitutional framers had in mind regarding Reconstruction.  They should emphasize what African Americans wanted and achieved.  Teachers should also focus on who attacked and abandoned Reconstruction, and how and why that occurred.  Finally, teachers should explore the legacies of Reconstruction today since we are still living in a world created by what happened after the Civil War.  She urges teachers to challenge the notion that Reconstruction failed.  Rather, teachers should identify the important gains made while also demonstrating how Reconstruction policies and African Americans were deliberately and violently attacked by white southerners and how white northerners and westerners abandoned what was a limited commitment to advancing African American freedom, equality, and opportunity.   She notes that African Americans resisted these challenges in a number of ways.   Lesson Plans and resources: The African American Agency during Reconstruction [https://bit.ly/4vPSc75]lesson can be found at https://bit.ly/4vPSc75 Reconstruction and the Violence Within [https://bit.ly/4tzpYfe] lesson can be found at https://bit.ly/4tzpYfe Dr. Williams's Seizing Freedom Podcast can be found at https://seizingfreedom.vpm.org/ The National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Educational Resources [https://www.searchablemuseum.com/for-educators/] can be found at https://www.searchablemuseum.com/for-educators/ Credits Opening theme music, “Bossa Bossa,” created by Clare Howard www.clarehoward.com [http://www.clarehoward.com]  Music supported by the National Council for History Education www.ncheteach.org [http://www.ncheteach.org] Transition theme music, “The Clock is Ticking,” created by Emily Hahn. Logo artwork created by Jessica Goldman. Shit I Have to Teach in 20 Minutes is produced by Eric Hahn and Rob Good.  Audio and video editing by Sebastian Rosales. Email us at historyintwenty@gmail.com [historyintwenty@gmail.com] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@historyintwenty Instagram:historyintwenty

S1/E17 Women's Suffrage with Cathleen Cahill

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2512015/fan_mail/new] Rob and Eric are joined by Dr. Cathleen Cahill [https://history.la.psu.edu/directory/cathleen-cahill/] to discuss ways to teach the women’s suffrage movement in the United States.  Cathleen is the Walter L. Ferree and Helen P. Ferree Professor of Middle-American History at Penn State.  She begins by urging teachers to conceptualize this topic beyond the standard narrative that starts with the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 and ends with the ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920.  Expanding beyond this framework allows teachers to connect this story to the larger movement for voting rights which spans many years and includes a diverse array of historical actors.  When teachers do address the women’s suffrage movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries they should present it as a broad, grassroots movement that occurred at both the state and national levels.  They should also emphasize the participation of women of color who infused their concerns about larger issues of citizenship and equality into the movement.  The ratification of the 19th amendment was a turning point, and women continued to work for their political aims after 1920.  She encourages teachers to explore with their students both how women advocated for the vote in their own states and to analyze how the strategies women utilized in the late 19th and early 20th century influenced modern forms of protest and civic engagement. Lesson Plans and resources: The “Women of Color in the Suffrage Movement” [https://bit.ly/4eg8FuU]lesson can be found at https://bit.ly/4eg8FuU The “Women’s Suffrage Movement- One State At a Time” lesson can be found at https://bit.ly/4dHuKT8 The Gilded Age and Progressive Era Podcast, [http://www.shgape.org/the-gilded-age-and-progressive-era-podcast/] co-hosted by Dr. Cahill, can be found at www.shgape.org/the-gilded-age-and-progressive-era-podcast/ [http://www.shgape.org/the-gilded-age-and-progressive-era-podcast/] Database of historical state constitutions: http://www.stateconstitutions.umd.edu/index.aspx [http://www.stateconstitutions.umd.edu/index.aspx]  Credits Opening theme music, “Bossa Bossa,” created by Clare Howard www.clarehoward.com [http://www.clarehoward.com]  Music supported by the National Council for History Education www.ncheteach.org [http://www.ncheteach.org] Transition theme music, “The Clock is Ticking,” created by Emily Hahn. Logo artwork created by Jessica Goldman. Shit I Have to Teach in 20 Minutes is produced by Eric Hahn and Rob Good.  Audio and video editing by Sebastian Rosales. Email us at historyintwenty@gmail.com [historyintwenty@gmail.com] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@historyintwenty Instagram:historyintwenty