• Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges: Globalizing the US Survey, Supporting Those Who Teach It

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  Dana L. Schaffer and Sarah Fenton | Sep 1, 2016

  The US history survey is a required course for community college students in many states. Often their first, sometimes only, exposure to history and t...
• Teaching Environmental History in US and World History Survey Courses

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  Allison Frickert-Murashige | Apr 6, 2016

  Thermohaline circulation, Aedes aegypti, sodium nitrate, and CO2 uptake are all terms that four years ago I would not have...
• Transforming the US History Survey by Expanding Its Geographical Focus

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  Lesley Kawaguchi | Mar 16, 2016

  The AHA’s Bridging Cultures program, “American History, Atlantic and Pacific,” was geared toward providing an opportunity for community college history...
• Transforming the US History Survey with a Focus on Labor in the Atlantic World

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  Kimberly D. Hill | Feb 16, 2016

  About three years ago, I realized I needed to reorganize the first few weeks of my early US history survey course. Following the 13 colonies-centered ...

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• Unsettling US History Courses

  Carlos Alberto Contreras | Feb 2, 2016

  Editor’s Note: This post is the fourth in a series of posts from the AHA Bridging Cultures project. Lionel Pincus and...
• Incorporating the Pacific World in the Early American History Survey

  Brittany Adams | Dec 28, 2015

  From 2013–15, I was fortunate enough to participate in the NEH/AHA Bridging Cultures program. In addition to working with top...
• Incorporating the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds into the US History Survey

  Shannon Bontrager | Nov 23, 2015

  Editor’s Note: This post is the first of a series of posts from the AHA Bridging Cultures project. Participants will...
• Bridging Historias through Latino History and Culture: An NEH Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges Project

  AHA Staff | May 4, 2015

  Bridging Historias: Latino/a History and Culture in the Community College Classroom will culminate its two-year National Endowment for the Humanities-funded program...
• Pizza, PechaKucha, and Pedagogy

  Shannon Bontrager | Feb 26, 2015

  Dr. Shannon Bontrager is a soon to be associate professor of history at Georgia Highlands College in Cartersville, Georgia. His...

 

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