Listen "REFLECT with Katy Johnson - "A More Perfect Union" - Teaching and Learning our History"
Episode Synopsis
Katy Johnson is our first guest from New Jersey, her friend calls her "the Lieutenant Dan of History Teachers". Katy and I discuss our mutual passion for the study of history and why we teach. Why is history important? What are the most rewarding and challenging parts about being a history teacher today? What do we love to read? And what's it mean to "hug a cactus?"SHOW NOTESHistory Teachers Talking - Podcast episode with Katy discussing Eleanor RooseveltBooks The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-ReedOn Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-ReedThe Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict / Victoria Christopher MurrayThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonDestiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard Support the show
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