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Description
The following are the historical competencies of Uncovering History. The bolded ones are specifically in the "Olaudah Equiano/Gustavus Vassa: African or American?" unit.
- Source Analysis (identifying and evaluating perspective and motivation)
- Corroboration (comparing, crosschecking, and verifying across multiple artifacts and accounts)
- Contextualization (considering the time and place of an event, artifact, or account)
- Cause and Consequence (identifying and analyzing interrelated short and long term causes and consequences that drive historical change)
- Change and Continuity (identifying and analyzing progress and decline as processes of change over time including use of chronology, turning points, and periodization)
I began a lifelong love of history listening to my grandfather talk about 'the war'. I thought I wanted to be a military history, then a political historian, and finally found a deep respect for the social and cultural history of African societies. After I comlpeted my dissertation and actually began to teach, I discovered another passion - history education. One project that I began as a way to teach my own students to think about issues of voice in history became Abina and the Important Men, a graphic history that won the James Harvey Robinson Prize from the American Historical Association. I was honored to accept the 2020 Eugene Asher prize Distinguished Teaching Award, and it motivates me to keep working to produce quality material for teachers and students. When I’m not being a professional historian, I still dabble in other kinds of history: I enjoy building models of RAF fighters, reading speculative fiction, and I play with trains.