1st Edition
Teaching American History in a Global Context
352 Pages
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Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
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This comprehensive resource is an invaluable teaching 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... Read more
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.
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