Classroom Materials: Environmental
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Teaching Environmental History in the US and World History Surveys: Overview of Topics and Resources
This guide provides an overview of topics that faculty can consider in their US history survey courses in taking an environmental view of US and world history. It also provides a thorough list of recent scholarship on environmental history.
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US Environmental History Course Topics through the Civil War (Santa Monica Coll.)
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Paper Assignment: Encountering Commodities in the Atlantic and the Pacific Worlds
This sample assignment requires students to use primary and secondary sources to connect American history with the Atlantic and Pacific worlds and write a paper that focuses on the circulation of commodities, peoples, and ideas throughout those worlds. This paper assignment has three major parts: a list of sources for students to read and study along with guiding questions on each reading; a mapping exercise; and the five page paper.
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Teaching U.S. Environmental History to STEM (and History) Majors at CSULB