Rate My Professor Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz

Laughlin-Schultz teaches the U.S. history survey, American women's history, Civil War era history, social studies teaching methods, and historical research and writing. She serves as a Civics Instructional Coach for the McCormick Foundation, assisting middle-level and secondary civics teachers in downstate Illinois, and writes about civics topics for IllinoisCivics.org. Her research interests include history education and civics education. Key publications feature the co-authored article "Redesigning for Justice: Rethinking Our Curriculum and Expanding the Purposes of History Education" with Sace E. Elder in The Journal of American History (2024); "Teaching the Civil War: Disrupting the Conventional Antislavery Narrative and Engaging Students in Visual Analysis" in Journal of the Civil War Era (2024); "Teaching and Doing History in Historic Times" in The Councilor (2021); book reviews in Journal of Southern History (2020), The Journal of American History (2020), Reviews in American History (2019), and The American Historical Review (2019); and chapters "Epilogue: The Last Echo from John Brown’s Grave" and "Introduction: Searching for the Brown Women" (2017). She also represents Unit A for EIU-UPI.