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Dr. Sarah Handley-Cousins
@sarahbelle721
Civil War Era #dishist #histgender #histmed / Teacher / Contingent / Author, Bodies in Blue @UGAPress / Executive Editor @nursingclio / Producer @dig_history
Jun 12, 2023 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
Teaching US II (Reconstruction-presentish) for the first time in a long while & I'm more excited than I should be. I love these big idea classes - when done well, they can hook students on history. One hook I'm trying this year is weekly theme songs. Here's my playlist! 🧵 Week 1: Introductions/Syllabus. I also give a lecture called History is a Weapon, explaining how history is used by people in power. Theme songs? Ray Charles, America, The Beautiful and Childish Gambino, This is America.
Nov 3, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
In homage to one of my favorite edited volumes ever, it's Weirding the War week in my Civil War grad seminar! We're reading articles and chapters that capture new turns in CW scholarship, and complicate things in weird, creative & fascinating ways. Here's what we're reading: Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver's "Nature and Human Nature: Environmental Influences on the Union's Failed Peninsula Campaign, 1862," pub in @JCWE1 in 2018. This article blew my mind when I first read it. An explanation of the unique formulation of Virginia's mud!? Yes please.
May 9, 2019 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Every time I teach the Civil War class, I struggle with how to end it. There's so much at stake - it seems so critically important that they leave understanding the Lost Cause, and modern conflicts over Confederate flags and statues. Here's what I did this year. We listened to 4 songs: Ashokan Farewell, The Battle of Antietam (T. Bone Burnett), Harry Belafonte's Oh Freedom, and The Band's cover of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. It's a large lecture, but we managed to discuss how each captures a different version of CW memory.
Feb 12, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Certainly! I had students meet outside the library, where I placed them in their writing groups (which they'll have all semester). I gave them all a scavenger hunt sheet with 'quests' related to resources in our library. They documented they completed quests w/ Instagram pics. The quests ranged from things specific to @UBLibraries (like, locate the Polish Reading Room) to general skills (find a primary source, find the Chicago Manual of Style, navigate the lib website to find out how to ILL). They were encouraged to ask librarians for help.