She is affiliated faculty in the departments of History and Art History and Cultural Studies. She is the author of Some Wore Bobby Sox: The Emergence of Teenage Girls’ Culture, 1920-1950 and numerous articles on teaching with technology, teacher professional development, and history education. She is co-author of U.S. History Matters: A Student Guide to History Online and World History Matters: A Student Guide to History Online. Schrum is director of Teachinghistory.org and projects including the Popular Romance Project, Children and Youth in History, Making the History of 1989, World History Sources, and Women in World History. Schrum has worked extensively in the areas of twentieth-century American culture, digital humanities, and teaching with technology. She received her PhD in history from Johns Hopkins University.