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Teaching American History

by Gary J. Kornblith; Carol Lasser

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Teaching American History

Essays Adapted from The Journal of American History, 2001-2007

First Edition ©2009

ISBN-10: 0-312-48416-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-48416-3
Paper Text, 272 pages

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Authors

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Reflections on Textbooks and Teaching

Part I: Teaching the American History Survey in the 21st Century: A Roundtable Discussion

Part II: Writing, Producing, and Using American History Textbooks

Reflections of a Longtime Textbook Author; or, History Revised, Revised — and Revised Again Mary Beth Norton

The Challenges and Rewards of Textbook Writing An Interview with Alan Brinkley

Textbook Publishing: An Ecological View Steve Forman

By the Book: Assessing the Place of Textbooks in U.S. Survey Courses Daniel J. Cohen

Part III: Teaching Outside the Box

Exploring the Wide World of Sports: Taking a Class to the (Virtual) Olympics Amy Bass

"It Was As If We Were Never There": Recovering Detroit's Past for History and Theater Charles Bright

"Bringing History to Life": Oral History, Community Research, and Multiple Levels of Learning A. Glenn Crothers

La Castaña Project: A History Field Laboratory Experience Cecilia Aros Hunter and Leslie Gene Hunter

Re-Visioning Women's History through Service Learning Catherine Badura Ogelsby

On the Road and out of the Box: Teaching the Civil Rights Movement from a Chrysler Minivan Alyssa Picard and Joseph J. Gonzalez

"Forgotten Voices and Different Memories": How Students at California State University, Monterey Bay, Became Their Own Historians David A. Reichard

Teaching Students to Become Producers of New Historical Knowledge on the Web Kathryn Kish Sklar

The Collaborative Research Seminar John Wertheimer

Using Historical Landscape to Stimulate Historical Imagination: A Memoir of Climbing Outside the Box James P. Whittenburg

A Modest Proposal: Less (Authority) Is More (Learning) Michael Zuckerman

Part IV: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning … and Testing

Uncoverage: Toward a Signature Pedagogy for the History Survey Lendol Calder

Ways of Seeing: Evidence and Learning in the History Classroom, An Introduction Michael Coventry, Peter Felten, David Jaffee, Cecilia O’Leary, and
Tracey Weis, with Susannah McGowan

Crazy for History Sam Wineburg

Part V: The Re-centered American History Survey(s) in the 21st Century

Recasting the Narrative of America: The Rewards and Challenges of Teaching American Indian History Ned Blackhawk

Black History Is American History: Teaching African American History in the Twenty-first Century Allison Dorsey

Exposing the Price of Ignorance: Teaching Asian American History in Michigan Scott Kurashige

Playing the Pivot: Teaching Latina/o History in Good Times and Bad Pablo Mitchell

Teaching "Straight" Gay and Lesbian History Nancy C. Unger

Notes on Contributors

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