An Economics and History double major from Vanderbilt, Sam studied these two disciplines side by side — which means he naturally reads events like the Bretton Woods agreement or the fall of mercantilism as stories where economic incentives and political decisions are inseparable. Years of tutoring t...

Luke approaches history as a discipline built on interpreting sources and constructing arguments, not memorizing dates. His graduate training in New Testament studies — essentially ancient historical analysis — sharpened his ability to evaluate primary documents, trace cause and effect, and teach st...

Understanding history means evaluating competing narratives and weighing evidence — skills Frank sharpened over a career analyzing markets, where getting cause and effect wrong had real consequences. He teaches students to treat historical events the way an analyst treats data: examining primary sou...

Benjamin earned his B.A. in both Linguistics and History from the College of William and Mary, so he approaches historical study as an exercise in reading sources carefully and constructing evidence-based narratives. He's especially sharp on teaching students to distinguish between primary and secon...

Treating history as a series of cause-and-effect chains rather than isolated dates makes the material stick and the essays sharper. Saad teaches students to read primary sources with a critical lens — asking who wrote it, for whom, and why — which transforms both their understanding and their docume...

Most history questions on exams aren't asking what happened — they're asking why it happened and what it caused. Dexter's training in law and economics gives him a framework for teaching causation, helping students trace how legal precedents, economic pressures, and political decisions connect acros...

Tackling history effectively means learning to read primary sources the way a historian does — asking who wrote it, why, and what's missing. Maureen's training in textual analysis through her Spanish and English studies translates directly to evaluating documents, constructing evidence-based argumen...

Creative writing and psychology make for an unexpectedly potent combination in history — Joseph reads historical events through the lens of human motivation while bringing a writer's attention to how narratives get constructed and by whom. That dual perspective is especially useful when students nee...

Memorizing dates and names only gets a student so far in history — the real challenge is explaining causation, continuity, and change over time. Stella teaches students to read primary sources critically and build document-based arguments, skills that apply whether the topic is the French Revolution...

While math is Gregg's primary expertise, his wide reading habit gives him a genuine interest in historical narrative and argumentation. He teaches students to approach history assignments analytically — constructing thesis statements, evaluating source reliability, and connecting cause-and-effect ch...