Flehinger Clip 5

Instructional Themes: Using humor; Questioning, listening and responding; asking for evidence; pushing students to clarify thinking; modeling disciplinary thinking

Profiled: Brett Flehinger, Lecturer in History, teaches "American Populisms: From Thomas Jefferson to the Tea Party + Trump" to 38 students at Harvard College.

Clip Length: 3 minutes, 5 seconds (32:16-35:21)

Clip Context:

• “American Populisms: From Thomas Jefferson to the Tea Party + Trump,” an undergraduate course at Harvard College with 38 students enrolled.
• This course traces the concept of populism from the early 19th century to the current day as Flehinger teaches his students to think and act as historians. In this class, Flehinger covers the Scopes Trial of 1925 to help students analyze populist sentiments in the 1920s.
• This clip comes about 35 minutes into the 50-minutes class as Flehinger and his students analyze a primary source document.