The fifth of March 2020 was the 250th anniversary of an event commonly known as the "Boston Massacre," and to commemorate it, the author's upper-level history class staged an unscripted presentation of the resulting historical trial in conjunction with third-year law students enrolled in Practice Court through the Baylor Law School.…

This article examines a hybrid graduate history course called "Teaching Hidden History." Team-taught in Summer 2015 across two universities, the course fundamentally tasked graduate students in history and history education with creating online learning modules based on the idea that hidden within any artifact is a larger historical…

Each fall semester, on the first day of class of his upper-level American Military History course, the author informs his students that a major part of the class consists of a wargame in which they will participate. In this article, the author describes briefly how the class will be divided into two teams, and that on a specific evening during the…

Students who ordinarily would not register for a history course were attracted to one offered on The World Since 1960.'' A variety of lecturers, of media approaches, and of evaluation methods provided the needed motivation. (JB)

A team-taught, skills-oriented approach is used to introduce freshmen to United States history at the University of Vermont. Constant feedback has identified course strengths and weaknesses. The appendix lists course topics and workbook assignments. (AM)