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Katherine Thrailkill’s Mentor Led Her to MAHG

Teaching American History

Lindblom based it on a summer seminar she attended in the early 2000s: the Presidential Academy, a forerunner of Teaching American History’s current programs. This inspired Lindblom to design an elective sophomore course on the same three periods, using many of the primary documents she’d studied in the TAH seminar.

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Colleen Shogan Receives the 2024 Hubert H. Humphrey Award

Political Science Now

Humphrey Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor notable public service by a political scientist. Humphrey Award honoring notable public service to political scientist Colleen Shogan. Records are our basis for holding our government accountable and providing transparency.

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What do Philadelphia’s students want? More college counseling

The Hechinger Report

Nor did she understand how to identify schools that would allow her to major in zoology and prepare for her dream job as a veterinarian, but where she could also explore her interests in political science and film. Her mother, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, had never been to college and didn’t know how to help.

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Short Course: The Logic & Best Practices of Process Tracing (QMMR A)

Political Science Now

While the examples are primarily drawn from international relations and comparative politics, the methods we discuss are applicable to all the subfields of political science, to sociology, economics, history, business studies, public policy, and many other fields.

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College Uncovered, Season 2, Episode 8

The Hechinger Report

Amherst enrolls about 1,900 students and offers more than 850 courses, many of them small seminars. And she says while some of these schools are doing better than others, she’d like to see the federal government hold them all accountable under the so-called Gainful Employment Rule. Archivist: Great.