Shit I Have to Teach in Twenty Minutes

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

S1/E16 The Late Qing Dynasty with Dan Barish

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2512015/fan_mail/new] Dr. Dan Barish [https://history.artsandsciences.baylor.edu/person/daniel-barish] returns to the podcast to discuss how teachers should teach about the late Qing Dynasty in China.  Dan is an Associate Professor of History and the Undergraduate Program Director at Baylor University.   First, he explains that teachers should begin their discussion about the decline of the Qing in the late 18th century and focus on internal problems that resulted from imperial expansion rather than external threats such as western intervention during the Opium War and the unequal Treaty of Nanjing.   The Qing, he argues, were adept at navigating around these problematic dealings with the west.  Rather than external challenges, he suggests that teachers should emphasize internal threats like the White Lotus and Taiping Rebellions of the 19th century.  To subdue these rebellions the Qing had to empower local leaders which led to a loss of centralized power.  Third, he shares that the wave of global revolutionary movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries provided various ideologies that contributed to anti-QIng movements.  While these ideologies were varied, they contributed to a broad coalition of activists who opposed the Qing empire. Lesson Plans and resources: The Decline of the Qing Empire [https://bit.ly/4c03tK7]lesson can be found at https://bit.ly/4c03tK7 Internal Challenges in the Qing Empire [https://bit.ly/4bFsOaN] lesson can be found at https://bit.ly/4bFsOaN 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/E15 Colonial Latin America with Silvia Escanilla Huerta

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2512015/fan_mail/new] Dr. Silvia Escanilla Huerta [https://history.umbc.edu/silvia-escanilla-huerta/] joins Eric and Rob to talk about the best ways to teach Colonial Latin American History.  Dr. Escanilla Huerta is a professor at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and a scholar of Latin America, who was born and raised in Argentina. She specializes in the process of Independence in Peru and Bolivia, focusing on Indigenous Peoples and Political History.   She has published several book chapters and articles in journals such as American Hispanic Historical Review and Revista de Indias.  Silvia provides three core concepts to help teachers frame this era.  First, she explains that it is critical to teach pre-Hispanic history.  Colonialism unfolded in the midst of complex indigenous societies with unique political, economic, and social systems which shaped the structures of colonial society. Second, teachers should represent indigenous people as savvy legal actors whose knowledge and actions significantly influenced colonial regimes.  Activists worked to resist oppressive policies and applied their knowledge of both indigenous and Spanish law to protect the interests of their people.  Third, teachers should not present the Latin American wars for independence as solely the effort of Creole elites.  Women, indigenous people, and people of African descent played critical roles in the struggles and sought to use the conflicts to obtain new rights and opportunities.   Lesson Plans and resources: The “Colonial Latin American History” lesson [https://bit.ly/4uj3AHI] can be found at https://bit.ly/4uj3AHI The “Updating the Story of Latin American Independence “ lesson [https://bit.ly/3Nrna47] can be found at https://bit.ly/3Nrna47 A list of resources and books recommended by Dr. Escanilla Huerta [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nmmXzpK9gKcFokSpVty1_HbaDHkuoiRd/view?usp=sharing] can be found at https://bit.ly/4rWRJNY 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