dr. erin n. bush

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Putting Theory in Action in the Classroom

Posted on May 2, 2013July 11, 2013 by erinbush

  Women on Trial: Exploring the History of American Women Through Criminal Trials [cp_dropcaps]F[/cp_dropcaps]or my final project for Dr. Kelly’s Teaching History in the Digital Age course, I created a 200-300 level course women’s history in America, which incorporates three major theoretical contributions from the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: “Uncoverage” and using consistency and patterns in…

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Managing the Uglier Side of Historic Research

Posted on September 16, 2012 by erinbush

Immersing yourself in 19th century crime, death, autopsies, forensics, and executions can make you forget that you’re actually studying people. Who died. Violently. Often painfully. And before they were “supposed” to. I often liken it to the gallows humor that homicide detectives, FBI agents, medical examiners, and first responders all tend to develop. When you…

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