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The War on Drugs: From Book to Website
Editor’s Note: Today’s guest post is from Dr. David Farber, Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor of Modern U.S. History at the...
David Farber
Dec 14, 20215 min read
Dropping the Facade
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from contributing editor Bob Beach. Beach is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Albany,...
Bob Beach
Sep 23, 20214 min read
Teaching Points: Transforming a Survey Course and Improving Student Research
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from contributing editor Bob Beach. Beach is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Albany,...
Bob Beach
Aug 17, 20215 min read
Teaching Points: Lesson Plan in Truth, Lies, and Anti-Drug Propaganda
Editor’s Note: Today’s guest post comes from Stephen Siff, an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Journalism and Film at...
Stephen Siff
Aug 3, 20212 min read
The State of Drug and Alcohol History Pedagogy: Teaching Challenges and Innovations
Tune in this Friday, January 8, 2021, at 1:00 PM EST (12:00 Noon CST / 10:00 AM PST) for a Teaching Roundtable, “The State of Drug and...
Points Editors
Jan 6, 20214 min read
Teaching Points: A New Survey Course – The History of Drugs and Alcohol in American History
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from contributing editor Bob Beach. Beach is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Albany,...
Bob Beach
Feb 13, 20204 min read
Narcotics and Western Civilization: A Student-Based Reflection
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from Dr. Stefano Tijerina, a lecturer in management and the Chris Kobrack Research Fellow in Canandian...
Stefano Tijerina
Oct 15, 20196 min read
Teaching Points: Using Drugs as a Gateway to Historical Methods
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from Dr. Adam Rathge, director of enrollment strategies and part-time history professor at the...
Adam Rathge
Jan 8, 20194 min read
Teaching Points: Teaching Marijuana Legalization in One Credit? An Educator’s (Incomplete) Guide
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from contributing editor Bob Beach. Beach is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Albany,...
Bob Beach
Nov 13, 20184 min read
Teaching Points: “The History of Drugs in Twentieth-Century America”
Editor’s Note: This post is brought to you by Marco Ramos and Tess Lanzarotta. Ramos is an MD/Ph.D. candidate in the History of Science...
Points Editors
Aug 18, 20164 min read
Teaching Points: Opium, Empire, and State in Asia
Today’s post is from Dr. Bruce Erickson. He is currently the chair of the department of history at LeMoyne College in Syracuse, NY. In...
Bruce Erickson
Aug 2, 20165 min read
Teaching Points: Surveying United States’ History of Drugs and Alcohol
This past semester, I taught a course called Altered States: Drugs and Alcohol in America at the University at Albany, SUNY. It was my...
Bob Beach
Jun 9, 20165 min read
The Role of Drug History in Interdisciplinary Study
Editor’s Note: This post is brought to you by Leanne Horinko, the interim director of the office of graduate admissions at Drew...
Leanne Horinko
Apr 26, 20164 min read
Teaching Points: Reflecting on a Learner-Centered Approach to Teaching “Drugs and Trade”
Editor’s Note: This post is brought to you by Matthew June. Enjoy! One student began the class with some knowledge of “purple drank” from...
Matthew June
Apr 7, 20164 min read
Teaching Points: Using “Drugs and Trade” to Teach and Research American History
This winter I have the pleasure of teaching an upper-level history seminar on “Drugs and Trade in American History.” Working with...
Points Editors
Feb 2, 20165 min read
Teaching Points- Tom Roberts on “Psychedelic Studies”
EDITOR’S NOTE: Today’s guest author is Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D, an Emeritus Professor in the Honors Program at Northern Illinois...
Thomas B. Roberts
Oct 9, 20148 min read
“This Is Your Brain on Drugs”: Teaching Drug History
About midway through the semester last fall my department asked me if I wanted to teach my own course in the spring. My dissertation was...
Emily Dufton
Apr 28, 20144 min read
Revising Drug History on the Web (or, what’s up with Vincent Dole’s Wikipedia page?)
When I taught high school a little less than a decade ago, we teachers generally regarded Wikipedia as a kind of academic quackery. The...
Claire Clark
Apr 25, 20143 min read
Call for Authors — Alcohol: Social, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives
SAGE Reference is seeking authors for some of the 550 entries in a new work entitled Alcohol: Social, Cultural, and Historical...
Points Editors
Jul 19, 20131 min read
Booze Collectors, Part I
As a historian, I want to pause for a moment and thank the collectors. While I enjoy a jaunt through an antique, rare books, or vintage...
Elaine Carey
Feb 11, 20134 min read
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