Stories and Histories: Hooking Students with the Tale
Join Professor Henry William (H.W.) Brands, University of Texas at Austin, to dive into strategies and tactics that will engage your students and leave them wanting more.
Professor Henry William (H.W.) Brands, University of Texas at Austin
In this session, we’ll explore how you can engage your students and them wanting more. We’ll discuss how the most important thing a history teacher can do is to hook students on the interest value of the subject, and explore tactics, such as starting with a story, filled with real people who share something with the students.
About the speaker
Henry William (H.W.) Brands
Henry William (H.W.) Brands was born in Oregon, went to college in California, sold cutlery across the American West, and earned graduate degrees in mathematics and history in Oregon and Texas. He taught at Vanderbilt University and Texas A&M University before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History.
His books include The Man Who Saved the Union, Traitor to His Class, Andrew Jackson, The Age of Gold, The First American, TR, and The General vs. the President. Both Traitor to His Class and The First American were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.
He lectures frequently on historical and current events, and can be seen and heard on national and international television and radio programs. His writings have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Ukrainian.
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