Today in Class

Thursday, we continued with our classroom presentations, which we started this past Tuesday. We are having some some rich intellectual discussions about:

• The war in Iraq
• The war in Afghanistan
• Golddigging as an urban trope
• Sharecropping and coal mining (literal)
• Similarities between the New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority and Obama's health care expansion.

I am finding some promising material that I can use to link popular culture with historical ideas. In short, I am assigning students to teach me how to better relate to them.

I'll provide some samples later on.