by Audra A. Diptée | Nov 7, 2021 | Subversive Histories, Usable History
In the early 1950s, the United States was in the midst of heated debate about the Jim Crow laws that legalized racial segregation in the South. No doubt inspired by the ongoing national debate, the historian C. Vann Woodward began researching the history of...
by Audra A. Diptée | Oct 16, 2021 | Radical Teaching, Subversive Histories, Usable History
In the last several years, I have noticed more and more history educators discussing strategies for writing and teaching “usable histories”. It certainly is a catchy phrase. It resonates with most historians, as we spend a fair amount of energy defending the utility...
