Query for @histodons: how do you talk with your students/what guidance do you provide re: building arguments with counter-factual proposals and using the conditional tense?
I’m teaching H.C. Richardson’s 2005 article on Reconstruction, “A Marshall Plan for the South,” and she frames much of her analysis through potential alternative pasts that “would have” or “could have” transformed the post-Confederacy in a more prosperous and less white supremacist place.
Always looking for ideas!

@[email protected] @histodons @[email protected] that’s a great suggestion; given how well she’s done with engaging a broader public via substack, her approach seems worthy of close examination.

Alright @histodons #histodons: what’s the best short-ish article and chapter you like to teach on #Reconstruction? Ideally, the reading would offer an interesting methodology and/or use of evidence as I’m hope it’ll also serve as a model for strong historical writing and analysis. Thanks! #reconstructionhistory #historyteaching #history #USHistory #19thcentury

@[email protected] looks fascinating! Will there be a recording or livestream of it anywhere? My teaching has already resumed, so no in-person AHA for me this year.

Another excellent (though now slightly dated) haiku from my final exams. #histodons #historyhaikus #warof1812 #gradingfun

Sometimes student haikus on final exams are so entertaining as to make the grading feel a little less of a slog. #histodons #grading #haiku #studenthaikus #grading