My teaching focuses on creating an active learning environment through a pedagogy that uses a variety of approaches informed by a constructivist classroom philosophy. I put students at the center of their learning and empower them to make discoveries as active participants through exercises such as Reacting to the Past. This daily classroom experience challenges students to appreciate historical complexity, strengthen critical thinking skills, and develop communications excellence.
Wesleyan University
God & Guns: the History of Faith and Firearms in America
Jesus Chicken: Business and Religion in America
Schemers and Redeemers: Capitalism and Christianity in the Early Republic
Trump-Evangelicals: the History of Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism in America
War and Religion in Early America
United States Naval Academy
American Naval History
Civilization and the Atlantic Community
Colonial America
Religion and Capitalism in Early America
Revolutionary America and the Early Republic
War and the Bible in Early America
The West in the Premodern World
The West in the Modern World