Nate Sleeter, Ph.D.

Director of Educational Projects | RRCHNM

Nate is the Director of Educational Projects at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. His interests include teaching and learning history with an emphasis on teaching history as a thinking skill. Nate earned his PhD in history at Mason in 2017. His dissertation focused on the cultural history of gifted children in the United States.

Oct. 22, 2024

Episode 11: The Resistance

With the Stamp Act defeated, the Sons of Liberty in New York City celebrate by raising a Liberty Pole in tribute to George III, William Pitt, and Liberty, provoking a violent confrontation with British soldiers quartered in …

Guests: Shira Lurie, Ph.D. , Wendy Bellion, Ph.D. , Patrick Griffin, Ph.D. , Jon Kukla, Ph.D. , John McCurdy, Ph.D. , Nate Sleeter, Ph.D. , Daniel Howlett , Anne Fertig, Ph.D. , Brad A. Jones, Ph.D. , Adam Smith, Ph.D. , Mills Kelly, Ph.D. , Christopher Minty, Ph.D. , Melissa Gismondi, Ph.D.

July 27, 2024

Episode 9: The Sugar

In the 1760s, Jamaica and the islands of the British Caribbean were the crown jewels of Britain's American Empire. And as King George III's ministers searched for solutions to a vexing imperial puzzle and moved to a counter …

Guests: Andrew O'Shaughnessy, Ph.D. , Norman Rodger , Nate Sleeter, Ph.D. , Trevor Burnard, Ph.D. , Daniel Howlett , Anne Fertig, Ph.D. , Beau Robbins , Brooke Newman, Ph.D. , Mary Draper, Ph.D. , Abby Chandler, Ph.D.

Oct. 18, 2023

Episode 2: The Nadir

Following the outbreak of the Seven Years' War in North America, the British and French begin mobilizing for war and appoint commanders-in-chief to lead the war effort, only to clash with colonists over how power, authority,…

Guests: Fred Anderson, Ph.D. , Katherine Carté, Ph.D. , Patrick Griffin, Ph.D. , Christian Ayne Crouch, Ph.D. , Norman Rodger , Emmanuel Dubois , Alexandre Rios-Bordes, Ph.D. , Hayley Madl , John McCurdy, Ph.D. , Grace Mallon, Ph.D. , Spencer McBride, Ph.D. , Nate Sleeter, Ph.D. , Alexandra Krebs, Ph.D.