Appreciate good content? Show your support with a one-time donation below or join me for extra episodes on Patreon! Happy Spring Break! Oh what’s that? You have to go into work over spring break? That sucks. Well,

Appreciate good content? Show your support with a one-time donation below or join me for extra episodes on Patreon! As we speak, 10 women are going on trial for advocating their right to drive cars. Yeah, to drive cars.

Appreciate good content? Show your support with a one-time donation below or join me for extra episodes on Patreon! So this episode is specifically for my US History students. They are off on a weeklong class trip to New Orleans and I promised them I w...

Appreciate good content? Show your support with a one-time donation below or join me for extra episodes on Patreon! I had planned this big dramatic intro where I would go over all of the juicy details about the most recent U.S.

Emily was lucky enough to present at SXSW EDU 2019 with her friend and coworker, Emily Pool. We’ve made an episode of us talking through our presentation, “Teaching in the Era of Fake News“. We go over media literacy, fake news,

As I record this, the US Congress has just begun its 116th session and is, in theory, getting to work. Although, I don’t know who they got to swear in the new members because the government is shut down. I guess the guy reading the oaths is an “essenti...

Fair warning: I’ve given myself a challenge this episode. I’m going to try to teach you a story from American history without cynicism. I’ve realized that my US history class has become a Who’s Who of land stealers, exploiters, and politicians and,

They’re coming… Can you feel it?… Their footsteps reverberating across Mexico… all along the border American troops and border patrol stand guard, gazing into the distance, waiting for them to arrive… The caravan. Even though the election is over,

Hey! I don’t know if y’all have heard but, there’s an election going on. I know! Thankfully 3,000 of my Facebook friends have been posting about it nonstop over the last two years so I remembered to vote. But maybe you haven’t heard. So,

I hope everyone had a great Columbus Day weekend! I did not because I’m from Austin and as of last year, we don’t celebrate Columbus Day. So I had a fantastic Indigenous Peoples’ Day! Take that, Columbus! There’s some Montezuma’s Revenge for you – 500 ...