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Understanding and Teaching the Modern Middle East
“This book is unique in its breadth and scope. There is no comparable volume that offers guidance on teaching the Middle East at the university or high school level. Chapters include a diverse range of voices, and the gender balance among the contributors is commendable and significant, placing it at the cutting edge of academic pedagogy.”
—Rachel Harris, editor of Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Many students learn about the Middle East through a sprinkling of information and generalizations deriving largely from media treatments of current events. This scattershot approach can propagate bias and misconceptions that inhibit students’ abilities to examine this vitally important part of the world. Understanding and Teaching the Modern Middle East moves away from the Orientalist frameworks that have dominated the West’s understanding of the region, offering a range of fresh interpretations and approaches for teachers. The volume brings together experts on the rich intellectual, cultural, social, and political history of the Middle East, providing necessary historical context to familiarize teachers with the latest scholarship. Each chapter includes easy- to-explore sources to supplement any curriculum, focusing on valuable and controversial themes that may prove pedagogically challenging, including colonization and decolonization, the 1979 Iranian revolution, and the US-led “war on terror.” By presenting multiple viewpoints, the book will function as a springboard for instructors hoping to encourage students to negotiate the various contradictions in historical study.
Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust
“Hilton and Patt’s wide-ranging volume combines authoritative surveys of key aspects of the Holocaust―from antisemitism to postwar justice―with practical guides to using survivor testimonies, photographs, museums, and more with students. This book will help anyone involved in teaching about a subject that remains as challenging as it is urgent.”
—Doris Bergen, author of War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust
Few topics in modern history draw the attention that the Holocaust does. The Shoah has become synonymous with unspeakable atrocity and unbearable suffering. Yet it has also been used to teach tolerance, empathy, resistance, and hope. Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust provides a starting point for teachers in many disciplines to illuminate this crucial event in world history for students. Using a vast array of source materials―from literature and film to survivor testimonies and interviews―the contributors demonstrate how to guide students through these sensitive and painful subjects within their specific historical and social contexts.
Each chapter provides pedagogical case studies for teaching content such as antisemitism, resistance and rescue, and the postwar lives of displaced persons. It will transform how students learn about the Holocaust and the circumstances surrounding it.
Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement
WINNER of the 2020 American Historical Association’s James Harvey Robinson Prize “for the teaching aid that has made the most outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning of history in any field for public or educational purposes” in the previous two years.
“Jeffries has called upon some of the leading educators and thinkers in the nation to masterfully reconstruct the narrative of the civil rights movement. This volume empowers educators to take back the movement from trite binaries and simple anecdotes by adding much-needed nuance to the methods and characters. The result is a truer and more balanced understanding of the fiercest periods of the black freedom struggle.”
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The civil rights movement transformed the United States in such fundamental ways that exploring it in the classroom can pose real challenges for instructors and students alike. Speaking to the critical pedagogical need to teach civil rights history accurately and effectively, this volume goes beyond the usual focus on iconic leaders of the 1950s and 1960s to examine the broadly configured origins, evolution, and outcomes of African Americans’ struggle for freedom. Essays provide strategies for teaching famous and forgotten civil rights people and places, suggestions for using music and movies, frameworks for teaching self-defense and activism outside the South, a curriculum guide for examining the Black Panther Party, and more.
Understanding and Teaching the Age of Revolutions
“This insightful, timely, and genuinely useful volume surveys the latest scholarship, suggests provocative ways to think through the subject, and offers helpful resources for teachers at both secondary schools and universities. I learned something from every chapter.” —Andrew M. Schocket, author of Fighting over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution
To learn about the “Age of Revolutions” in Europe and the Americas is to engage with the emergence of the modern world. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, nations were founded, old empires collapsed, and new ones arose. Struggles for emancipation—whether from royal authority, colonial rule, slavery, or patriarchy—inspired both hopes and fears. This book, designed for university and secondary school teachers, provides up-to-date content and perspectives, classroom-tested techniques, innovative ideas, and an exciting variety of pathways to introduce students to this complex era of history.
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“The World Wide Web: Using the Internet to Teach Revolutions,” by Stuart Salmon and Ben Marsh
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Understanding and Teaching the Cold War
“A superb collection of authoritative, imaginative, and even provocative essays on teaching the history of the Cold War, effectively merging historiography, methodology, and innovative use of primary documents.”—Jeremi Suri, author of Henry Kissinger and the American Century
“Inspired. Brings together historians and master teachers who offer transformative approaches to teaching the complexities of global Cold War history. The focus on a range of textual and visual primary sources from a variety of geographic spaces that work in the classroom is invaluable.”—Mark Philip Bradley, author of Imagining Vietnam and America
For nearly a half century, from 1945 to 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union maneuvered to achieve global hegemony. Each forged political alliances, doled out foreign aid, mounted cultural campaigns, and launched covert operations. The Cold War also deeply affected the domestic politics, cultures, and economic policies of the two superpowers, their client states, and other nations throughout the world. Read more . . .
Understanding and Teaching American Slavery
WINNER of the 2018 American Historical Association’s James Harvey Robinson Prize “for the teaching aid that has made the most outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning of history in any field for public or educational purposes” in the previous two years.
Bethany Jay and Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, eds.
Foreword by Ira Berlin
“Many instructors find the subject of slavery intimidating. This volume provides them with the necessary background content, as well as effective and interesting sources and methods, for engaging students and steering them away from common misperceptions.”—Roy E. Finkenbine, author of Sources of the African-American Past
No topic in U.S. history is as emotionally fraught as the nation’s centuries-long entanglement with slavery. How can teachers get students to understand the racist underpinnings of that institution—and to acknowledge its legacies in contemporary America? How can they overcome students’ shame, anger, guilt, or denial? How can they incorporate into the classroom important primary sources that may contain obsolete and racist terms, images, and ideas? This book, designed for college and high school teachers, is a critical resource for understanding and teaching this challenging topic in all its complexity. Read more . . .
Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
Transgender History
“Leila J. Rupp and Susan K. Freeman have assembled a terrific book for anyone teaching U.S. history to high school or college students. . . . If the task of teaching LGBT history in the classroom seems daunting, the first section of the book presents first-hand accounts of high school and college teachers who have taken the plunge. They represent a broad range of teaching experiences: public and private schools, affluent and impoverished student bodies, hostile and sympathetic parents and administrators, survey and elective courses, tight and flexible time constraints. Each teacher attests to the importance this history had for their students. . . . Especially helpful are wonderful examples of strategies to achieve specific goals.” Claire Lyons, Univ. of Maryland.
Full Review: The American Historian, Feb 2015
Winner, Anthology, 2015
In a similar way to racial/ethnic minorities, women, people with disabilities, and other marginalized groups, queer lives first appear as “sidebar” stories, which are important to introducing, say, prominent individuals or significant acts of protest. But this is just a beginning. Our book will help illuminate important figures and events, with essays by experts who possess substantial teaching experience. In addition, the book will be a one-of-a-kind guide for teachers, helping them to understand how the central narratives of U.S. history speak to queer lives and, just as importantly, vice versa. Read more . . .
Understanding and Teaching the Vietnam War
“This collection makes good on what it sets out to do: help high school and college teachers think about understanding and teaching the Vietnam War in new and innovative ways. There is a clear need for this kind of hands-on volume.”
—Mark Philip Bradley, author of Vietnam at War
“[A] much needed guide to help teachers at all levels navigate the complexities of the Vietnam War and the ever-increasing material available about it.”
—History Teacher 47, no. 3 (May 2014)
Honorable Mention for the 2015 Franklin Buchanan Prize from the Association for Asian Studies and the Committee for Teaching About Asia
Named to the list of “Significant University Press Titles for Undergraduates, 2013-2014,” Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 51, no. 9 (May 2014): 1557.
The Harvey Goldberg Series 