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Teaching American History in a Global Context
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Description: This comprehensive resource is an invaluable aid for adding a global dimension to students' understanding of American history. It includes a wide range of materials from scholarly articles and reports to original syllabi and ready-to-use lesson plans to guide teachers in enlarging the frame of introductory American history courses to an international view.
The contributors include well-known American history scholars as well as ordinary classroom teachers, and the book's emphasis on immigration, race, and gender points to ways for teachers to integrate international and multicultural education, America in the World, and the World in America in their courses. The book also includes a "Views from Abroad" section that examines problems and strategies for teaching American history to foreign audiences or recent immigrants. A comprehensive, annotated guide directs teachers to additional print and online resources.
Selected Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Calls for Change
1. The National Standards for History, National Center for History in the Schools
2. The La Pietra Report: Internationalizing the Study of American History, Organization of American Historians
3. Preparing Citizens for a Global Community, National Council for Social Studies
4. Internationalizing Student Learning Outcomes in History, American Historical Association/American Council on Education
Part II Widening the Horizons of American History
5. In Pursuit of an American History, Carl N. Degler
6. The Autonomy of American History Reconsidered, Laurence Veysey
7. No Borders: Beyond the Nation-State, Thomas Bender
8. Atlantic History: Definitions, Challenges, and Opportunities, Alison Games
9. Environment, Settler Societies, and the Internationalization of American History, Ian Tyrrell
10. American Studies in a Pacific World of Migrations, Henry Yu
11. The African Diaspora and the Re-Mapping of U.S. History, Robin D.G. Kelley
12. American Freedom in a Global Age, Eric Foner
Part III Teaching American History in a Global Context
Concepts, Models, Experiences
13. Internationalizing the U.S. Survey Course: American History for a Global Age, Carl Guarneri
14. Continental America, 1800-1915: The View of an Historical Geographer, Donald W. Meinig
15. International Baccalaureate History of the Americas: A Comparative Approach, Maurice Godsey
16. Teaching the United States in World History, Peter Stearns
17. Integrating United States and World History in the High School Curriculum, Mark Wallace
Syllabi
18. America and the World: From the Colonial Period to 1900, Ken Cruikshank
19. The United States in World History, Alan Dawley
20. The United States and the World: A Globalized U.S. History Survey, Center for World History, University of California, Santa Cruz
21. The North and South Atlantic Core, Erik Seeman
22. Teaching Comparative U.S. and South Africa Race Relations, Derek Catsam
Topics and Strategies
23. Internationalizing Three Topics in the U.S. History Survey Course, Thomas Osborne
24. America on the World Stage, OAH Magazine of History
25. AP Central Articles on Internationalized U.S. History, The College Board
26. Teaching Gender Relations in Settler Societies: The United States and Australia, M. Alison Kibler
27. Sisters of Suffrage: British and American Women Fight for the Vote, Barbara Winslow
28. From Immigration to Migration Systems: New Concepts in Migration History, Dirk Hoerder
29. Rethinking Themes for Teaching the Era of the Cold War, Norman L. and Emily S. Rosenberg
30. A World to Win: The International Dimension of the Black Freedom Movement, Kevin Gaines
Lesson Plans
31. EDSITEment Lesson Plans, National Endowment for the Humanities
32. Spanish Colonization of New Spain: Benevolent? Malevolent? Indifferent?, Melinda K. Blade
33. Disease in the Atlantic World, 1492-1900, Karen E. Carter
34. Witches in the Atlantic World, Elaine Breslaw
35. New York was Always a Global City: The Impact of World Trade on Seventeenth Century New Amsterdam, Dennis J. Maika
36. The Code Noir : North American Slavery in Comparative Perspective, Kevin Arlyck
37. Indian Removal: Manifest Destiny or Hypocrisy?, David L. Ghere
38. Mexico's Loss of Land: Perspectives from Mexico and the U.S., Resource Center of the Americas
39. Comparing the Emancipation Proclamation and the Russian Emancipation Manifesto, Clair W. Keller
40. Italians Around the World: Teaching Italian Migration from a Transnational Perspective, Dennis J. Townsend
41. Eleanor Roosevelt and the Declaration of Human Rights: A Simulation Activity, Sally Gilbert and Kathy Schollenberger
42. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Beyond Vietnam", Erin Cook and Stan Pesick
43. Comparing U.S. and Vietnamese Textbooks on the Vietnam War, John J. DeRose
44. Borderlands, Diasporas, and Transnational Crossings: Teaching LGBT Latina and Latino Histories, Horacio N. Rocque Ramirez
45. America Held Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979-1981 and U.S.-Iranian Relations, Lawrence A. Wolf
46. Cultural Aspects of American Relations with the Middle East, Paul R. Frazier
Part IV Views from Abroad
47. American History Lessons Around the World, Brett Berliner
48. "And We Burned Down the White House, Too": American History, Canadian Undergraduates, and Nationalism, James Tagg
49. Being the "Other": Teaching U.S. History as a Fulbright Professor in Egypt, Maureen A. Flanagan
Part V Additional Resources
50. Additional Resources to Support Teaching U.S. History in a Global Context, Carl Guarneri and James Davis
Editors and Contributors
Index
Comment(s): " Teaching American History in a Global Context is a remarkably rich and stimulating collection of essays and syllabi. Besides some of the best writing on the issues of a global framing of the basic narrative, this volume is a cornucopia of diverse and imaginative course syllabi-along with bibliographies. Teachers in high schools and colleges will find it to be an invaluable resource. It is a complete 'start-up kit' for those thinking of making a change, yet it is equally useful for deepening and enriching both the pedagogy and content of courses already revised in this direction." -- Thomas Bender, New York University
"This anthology successfully bridges the gap between the theory and practice of globalizing the study of American history. The lesson plans and strategies are laid out with clarity and specificity. For history teachers who are venturing beyond borders and boundaries, this volume is your passport." -- Thomas J. Osborne, Santa Ana College
"This anthology is an invaluable resource for all scholars embracing the transnational approach to the study of the United States. Its wonderful fusion of background materials, thought-provoking articles, and pedagogical aids is unparalleled. A marvelous addition to the field." -- Laura A. Belmonte, Oklahoma State University
"This is a splendid and timely collection. The combination of overviews, specific opportunities to pull American developments into global or comparative context, and imaginative lesson suggestions is a first of a kind, and exactly what we need to advance this important intellectual and curricular goal." -- Peter N. Stearns, George Mason University
    
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