Globalizing American History: The AHA Guide to Re-Imagining the U.S. Survey Course

by Peter Stearns (Editor), Noralee Frankel (Editor)

Overview

Designed to contribute to the discussion of repositioning the American history survey course in light of the nations global context, Globalizing American History serves as an overview to the issues involved in internationalizing this staple of the school and college history curriculum in light of earlier, exploratory inquires.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780872291607
Publisher:	American Historical Association
Publication date:	01/01/2007
Series:	Students and Professional Concerns
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	116
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Peter N. Stearns is provost and professor of history at George Mason University. He has written extensively on topics in world history and American cultural and social history, often within the framework of comparative analysis.

Noralee Frankel is AHA assistant director for women, minorities, and teaching. She is senior executive staff to the AHA's Teaching Division and the author of Freedom's Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi.

Table of Contents

Preface by Noralee Frankel and Peter N. Stearns

Report Presented on Internationalizing Student Learning Outcomes in History by Dane Kennedy and Noralee Frankel

Internalizing Student Learning Outcomes in History: A Report to the American Council on Education by Noralee Frankel, Kevin Gaines, John R. Gillis, Dane Kennedy, Patrick Manning, Sonya Michel, Kevin Reilly, and Peter N. Stearns

Part II: Ideas for Implementation

Whys and Hows of Globalizing by Peter N. Stearns

Teaching Thinking in Introductory History Courses by Kevin Reilly

Emancipations, Empires, and Democracies: Locating the United States in the World, 1840-1900 by David Quigley

What Will It Take to Globalize American History? by John R. Gillis