The rhythms of the academic term sometimes result for me in a bittersweet spasm of relief and regret as the semester winds down toward Veterans Day on...

I have an opportunity in my HIS 099 freshman transitions class and in my HIS 361 teaching history class to talk with my students about how they envision...

You will observe that many of the everyday activities that I write about in “A Professor’s Journal” are very ordinary and perhaps should not merit...

From time to time, my students come to me bearing gifts, gifts that any history professor would appreciate. One student brought to me a copy of an old...

You wait, hunkered down in the hall, back against the wall, legs splayed out, a coffee cup in one hand and tattered notes in the other. The professor arrives...

Earlier in September I drove down Butterworth Road when I came upon a sight that brings back so many memories of my youth. Smoke seeped out the crevices...

I entered into my calling to teach with trepidation and I still get shaky when I walk into my Murray State classrooms each day. Each week, I am able...

It is a humbling experience to stand before a class full of students, some of you eager to learn and some of you not. There is something very inspirational...

This Fall semester I have the good fortune of teaching both HIS 099 Freshman Transitions and HIS 400 Professional Engagement and Senior Seminar. Students...

It is a humbling and inspirational experience to sit all alone in a silent classroom. I often seek out one of my classrooms at Murray State after the...

We have now completed the second week of the fall 2012 semester at Murray State. For years now, the first day of class for any of my university history...