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 NOTES
History Teachers Talking - Podcast episode with Katy discussing Eleanor Roosevelt

Books 
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family  by Annette Gordon-Reed
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict / Victoria Christopher Murray
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard

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