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

Kornblith, Gary J.; Lasser, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 031248416X ISBN 13: 9780312484163

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009

Synopsis

Teaching American History: Essays Adapted from the Journal of American History, 2001-2007 brings together a selection of articles from the "Textbooks and Teaching" section of the Journal of American History. Editors Gary J. Kornblith and Carol Lasser have compiled a set of thought-provoking essays from a wide range of top scholars that helps instructors of the U.S. survey consider pedagogy, assessment, re-centered narratives, "uncoverage," as well as textbooks and other course materials. Each part of the book focuses on a different aspect of teaching the survey. Part I introduces an on-line roundtable discussion on teaching the U.S. survey. Part II features articles reflecting on the role of the textbook in the U.S. survey. Part III, "Teaching Outside the Box," contains a selection of articles on incorporating sports, theater, oral history, field experience, service learning, field trips, and the Web into teaching and learning. Part IV challenges teachers to think about the connection between teaching, learning, and testing. Finally, Part V includes articles about bringing the narratives of marginalized people to the center of American history.

About this title

About the Author

Gary J. Kornblith is a Professor at History at Oberlin College where he has taught since 1981. He was the editor of the anthology The Industrial Revolution in America (1998). He has published numerous articles and is currently working a book entitled Slavery and Sectional Strife in the Early Republic and Elusive Utopia: A Historical of Race in Oberlin, Ohio (with Carol Lasser). He was co-editor of the Textbooks and Teaching section of the Journal of American History from 2001 to 2007.

Carol Lasser is a Professor at History at Oberlin College where she has taught since 1980. She was the editor of the collection Friends and Sisters: Letters Between Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, 1846-1893 (1987) and Educating Men and Women Together: Coeducation in a Changing World (1987). She was co-editor of the Textbooks and Teaching section of the Journal of American History from 2001 to 2007.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 031248416X
• ISBN 13: 9780312484163
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272