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Does the Evidence Support Your Ideas?

EducationKeith HarrisApril 6, 2025history classComment

The Trouble with Objectivity

The Trouble with Objectivity

EducationKeith HarrisApril 2, 2025Teach History, education, history, american history, objectivityComment

Do Ideas and the Founding Matter? (Hint: Yes)

Do Ideas and the Founding Matter? (Hint: Yes)

EducationKeith HarrisMarch 30, 2025Revolution, Constitution, Founding Principles, Founding Fathers, Civil Rights, Contagion of Liberty, Bernard, Bernard Bailyn, Historian, Teaching, History TeacherComment

Hard Lessons and the Virtues of Accountability

Hard Lessons and the Virtues of Accountability

Grit is a thing. Embrace it.

EducationKeith HarrisMarch 10, 2025Education, hard work, accountability, high school, history teacherComment

Meritocracy in the Classroom

Meritocracy in the Classroom

EducationKeith HarrisJanuary 31, 2025Teaching, High School, Meritocracy Comments

Encouraging the Free Exchange of Ideas in the Classroom

Encouraging the Free Exchange of Ideas in the Classroom

TeachingKeith HarrisJanuary 28, 2025Disagreement, debate, classroom, teaching, students

Bridging the Past with the Present at Gettysburg

Bridging the Past with the Present at Gettysburg

GettysburgKeith HarrisJanuary 22, 2025Gettysburg, Field Trip, Civil War, High SchoolComment

Discussing Half-American: an Interview with Matthew F. Delmont

Discussing Half-American: an Interview with Matthew F. Delmont

Keith HarrisApril 24, 2024

Just Listen

Ask Dr- HarrisKeith HarrisFebruary 4, 2024Internet, Social media, vitriol, Rage Olympics, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Lincoln, First Inaugural, Better angels Comments

Why We Should Study American Exceptionalism

Why We Should Study American Exceptionalism

Civil WarKeith HarrisJanuary 31, 2024Civil War, American Exceptionalism, Veterans, Union soldiers, Union veterans, Gettysburg, Keith Harris History, Bull Run, Sullivan BallouComment

Longstreet by Elizabeth Varon - A Review

Longstreet by Elizabeth Varon - A Review

Book ReviewsKeith HarrisJanuary 24, 2024Elizabeth Varon, Civil War, Civil War books, James Longstreet, Lee, Robert E Lee, Lost Cause, politics, CSA, Confederate ArmyComment

How to Write a High School History Research Paper

How to Write a High School History Research Paper

Ask Dr- HarrisKeith HarrisJanuary 23, 2024Instagram, Writing history, history paper, apush, honors us history, history class, teaching history, history teacher, teachers, writing tips, writing like the pros, set by stepComment

Teachers - Do You Use an Honor Pledge?

Teachers - Do You Use an Honor Pledge?

Ask Dr- Harris, EducationKeith HarrisJanuary 21, 2024University of Virginia, Honor pledge, on my honor, honor code, cheating, cheater, students, classroom, policies, class policiesComment

Some Confirmation in James Clear's Atomic Habits

Some Confirmation in James Clear's Atomic Habits

Book Reviews, EducationKeith HarrisJanuary 20, 2024James Clear, Atomic Habits, Education, teaching, APUSH, standardized tests, Reading, self helpComment

Chat GPT - Get Used To It

Chat GPT - Get Used To It

Ask Dr- HarrisKeith HarrisJanuary 17, 2024Chat GPT, High School History, cheating, essays, writing history, WSJ, Wall Street Journal, Kevin Hoffman, Yale, Generative AI, artificial intelligenceComment

Stonewall Jackson's Arm

Stonewall Jackson's Arm

Civil WarKeith HarrisJanuary 16, 2024Stonewall, Stonewall Jackson, Civil War, Chancellorsville, North Carolina, Virginia, Old Dominion, Lost Cause, Ellwood Manor, Robert E. Lee, CSA, Confederate, Army of Northern VirginiaComment

Passions

Passions

politicsKeith HarrisJanuary 14, 2024Passions, Lincoln, First Inaugural, Politics, 2024. election, POTUS, simmer down, open mind, critical thinkingComment

Half American by Matthew Delmont - A Review

Half American by Matthew Delmont - A Review

Book ReviewsKeith HarrisJanuary 8, 2024Half American, Matthew Delmont, black history, soldiers, veterans, WWII, black soldiers, Segregation, black history racism, army, US Army, Racism, double v, civil right Comments

Brutus Attacks!

Brutus Attacks!

Ask Dr- HarrisKeith HarrisJanuary 2, 20243/5ths clause, three-fifths clause, high school, apush, teach, history teacher, constitution, honors us history, us history, Advanced Placement United States History, American History, history teachersComment