Podcasts
Module 4: Resources, Opportunity, and Enterprise
Dr. Philip Morgan
Johns Hopkins University
Morgan is the Harry C. Black Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. His Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998) won the Bancroft, Beveridge, and Frederick Douglass prizes. He is coeditor most recently of Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age (2006). He is working at the interface of Caribbean and North American history in the early modern era.
Origins of American Slavery (audio recordings, mp3 files)
- Slavery and the Slave Trade 1
- Slavery and the Slave Trade 2
- Slavery and the Slave Trade 3
- Slavery and the Slave Trade 4
- PowerPoint Presentation from lecture
Dr. Peter Coclanis
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Coclanis is Albert R. Newsome Professor of History and director of the Global Research Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of numerous works in U.S. and international economic history, including The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670- 1920 (1989); with David L. Carlton, The South, the Nation, and the World: Perspectives on Southern Economic Development (2003).
Slavery and the Southern Economy: Myths and Realities (audio recordings, mp3 files)
- Slavery and the Southern Economy: Myths and Realities 1
- Slavery and the Southern Economy: Myths and Realities 2
- Slavery and the Southern Economy: Myths and Realities 3
- The Economics of Slavery (pdf)
Module 5: Nation in Conflict
Dr. Edward Ayers
University of Richmond
The American Civil War from a Global Perspective (audio recordings, mp3 files)
- The American Civil War from a Global Perspective 1
- The American Civil War from a Global Perspective 2
- The American Civil War from a Global Perspective 3
- Hidden Patterns of the Civil War (additional information)
Dr. Jerome Bowers
Northern Illinois University
Bowers is an assistant professor of American history at Northern Illinois University where he also directs the secondary teacher certification program for history. He previously taught history in Hawaii, Virginia, and Uruguay.
Teaching 19th Century Religion in a Global Context
Supporting information:
- Teaching American Religion in a Global Context (pdf)
- Hawaii Annexation (pdf)
- Lecture Notes
- US Religion in a Global World (pptx)
(audio recordings, mp3 files)
- Teaching 19th Century Religion in a Global Context 1
- Teaching 19th Century Religion in a Global Context 2
- Teaching 19th Century Religion in a Global Context 3
- Teaching 19th Century Religion in a Global Context 4
Supporting information
Divining America
TeachingHistory.org – National History Education Clearing House
Module 6: The Promises and Responsibilities of Citizenship
Dr. Stephen Aron
UCLA
Aron, professor of history at the University of California,
Los Angeles, and executive director of the Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry National Center, is a specialist in frontier and western American history. He is author of How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay (1996) and American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State (2005). He is currently writing a book tentatively entitled Can We All Just Get Along: An Alternative History of the American West.
Returning the West to the World (audio recordings, mp3 files)
- Returning the West to the World 1
- Returning the West to the World 2
- Returning the West to the World 3
- Returning the West to the World 4
- Supporting Presentation
Dr. Omar Valerio-Jimenez
University of Iowa
Valerio-Jimenez is an assistant professor history at the University of Iowa where he teaches immigration, comparative borderlands, ethnic relations, the American West, and Latina/o history. His book Rio Grande Crossings: Identity and Nation in the Mexico-Texas Borderlands, 1749-1890 is forthcoming.
Strategies for Teaching the American West
- Strategies for Teaching the American West 1
- Strategies for Teaching the American West 2
- Strategies for Teaching the American West 3
- Strategies for Teaching the American West 4
- Supporting Presentation
Module 7: Resources, Opportunity, and Enterprise
Dr. Jim Marten
Marquette University
Marten is a professor of history and chairs the history department at Marquette University, where he teaches courses on the Civil War and on children’s history. He is the author of The Children’s Civil War (1998), which was selected as an “Outstanding Academic Book” by Choice Magazine, and Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America (2011). He also directs Children in Urban America , an online archive of documents related to the history of children.
Children in the City of the Progressive Era (audio recordings, mp3 files)
Dr. Kathleen Dalton
Andover/Boston University
Dalton is the Cecil F.P. Bancroft Instructor of History at Phillips Academy Andover as well as an external fellow of Boston University’s International History Institute. She is the author of Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life (2002) and A Portrait of a School: Coeducation at Andover (1986).
Teaching American Reform in a World Context
Readings
- How Far Behind was the US in Building a Welfare State before 1914
- Table of Contents – Those United States
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Slavery Compared
Audio Files
Lecture Notes:
Module 8: The Promises and Responsibilities of Citizenship
Dr. Matthew Jacobson
Yale University
Race, Immigration and US Citizenship (audio recordings, mp3 files)
Dr. Suzanne Sinke
Florida State University
Crossing Borders: Globalizing US History through Migration (ppt presentations)
Module 9: Nation in Conflict
Dr. Michael Neiberg
US Army War College
Fresh Approaches to Understanding and Teaching World War I (audio recordings, mps files)
- Part 1
- Part 2
- Presentation (ppt)
Dr. Jim Madison
Indiana University
Teaching World War II with Primary Sources (audio recordings, mps files)