Author Archives: Dr. Andrew Joseph Pegoda

The Haiku, a from of Japanese poetry, requires tight focuses.

Discussing systems of privilege is important, but there are wrong, and potentially dangerous, ways of having such conversations.

If you care about yourself, others, and history, think again before that next “Spring Cleaning” adventure.

Michael Frisch‘s “American History and the Structures of Collective Memory: A Modest Exercise in Empirical Iconography” caught my attention some time ago. Please read or at least skim the article if you can. If you do not have access to an academic database, send me an email, and I can email you a copy ofContinue reading ““American History and the Structures of Collective Memory”: Working Survey Results From My Students”

A scholar from China visiting the University of Houston has been sitting in on my Saturday class. She brought this bookmark to me about three weeks ago.  I got this heavy paper weight/book holder around 2005 at a small bookstore going out of business.  Found these antique glass marbles in Abilene, Texas, in the attic atContinue reading “Cultural Artifacts: My Personal Collections of the Old, Awesome, and Weird”

Today I had the privilege of talking with eight groups of twenty 8th graders at Alvin Junior High School. My day was a blast! These students were curious and have a love of life far too many adults have lost. They were eager and fully innocent of all the things that stress far too many adults. TheyContinue reading “Career Day at Alvin Junior High School!”

They say good journalism is free from (overt, excessive) biases. Such standards are impossible, without even considering the personal interests of a writer. The rhetoric of an article, even when seemingly balanced, helps speak to the “true” agendas–conscious or unconscious–of the author. What kind of pictures are included? Who is given a specific voice inContinue reading “A Case Study Looking at the Rhetoric of Journalism Bias: Structure, Photography, Voice, and Events at the University of Oklahoma”

My students are beginning to really focus in on their argumentative research papers for the semester. They have the option to write on anything that is in anyway related to Black History. I asked them to post a quick blog about their topic with an outline of some sources they plan to use so far.Continue reading “Call to Action: Research Papers – Teaching African American History Update #4”