Looking for an experienced and engaging history or social studies professional development provider for your middle school, high school, or university?  Contact Cynthia Resor, author, historian, and educator with 32 years of experience teaching in middle school, high school, and university classrooms.

BOOKS

BLOGS

ARTICLES

  • “Cemetery Development in the 19th Century” (2015) Wake Treasures, Journal of the Wake County Genealogical Society AND Wayne County (KY) Historical Society Newsletter
  • Resor, C. W. & Gandy, K. S.  (2013) “Dreaming of a Better Life: Utopia as a Focus for Thematic, Interdisciplinary Instruction ” The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas. 87 (1) 1-8.
  • “Using Community Cookbooks as Primary Sources.” (Jan./Feb. 2011) Social Education. 75 (1), 30-35.
  • “Food as a Theme in Social Studies Classes: Connecting Daily Life to Technology, Economy and Culture.”  (Nov/Dec. 2010) The Social Studies. 10(6), 236-241.
  • “Place-Based Education: What is Its Place in the Social Studies Classroom?” (August 2010) The Social Studies. 101(5), 185-188. – Recognized by Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group publishers as the most downloaded article from The Social Studies in 2011.
  •  Gandy, K. S. & Resor, C. W. (2012). “Changing Technology and the U.S. Mail.” The Social Studies, 103(6), 226-232.
  • “Connecting Daily Life to National Historical Trends: Comparing Homes of Average Kentuckians in the Modern Age and the Pre-Industrial Age.” (Fall 2009) The Kentucky Middle School Journal. 10:1, 14-27.
  • “Homes of Average Kentuckians before the Civil War.” (Summer 2009) Wayne County Historical Society Newsletter.
  • “Encouraging Students to Read the Assigned Texts: The Jigsaw Method” (Spring 2008) Teaching History, A Journal of Methods.
  • “Karen Cushman’s Middle Ages.” (Fall 2008) “The Kentucky Middle School Journal. 9:18-24.
  • “A Whistling Girl and a Crowing Hen: Changing Productivity and Gender Expectations” (2007) Southern Rural Sociology. (22) 98-109.
  • “Shaker Families and Pioneer Families: Exploring Conceptions and Misconceptions of Family” (Spring 2007) Kentucky Middle School Journal, 8(1).
  • “The Shakers in Fiction: A Review of Five Young Adult Novels” (Fall 2005/Winter 2006) Kentucky Reading Journal.
  • “Food & Technology: Comparing Early America and Today” (Spring 2006) Kentucky Middle School Journal, 7 (1).
  • “Crispin: The Cross of Lead – Good literature, but is it good history?” ( 2004) Kentucky Reading Journal.
  •  “Who Am I? – A Primary Source Mystery” (2004) Southern Social Studies Journal, (30)1, 3-12.

Presentations by Cynthia Resor