Reflections on Teaching

• Reflection on the Bridging Cultures Program

  Sarah Grunder reflects on her work bringing the Atlantic and Pacific worlds into her US history survey course as a part of the Bridging Cultures program.

• Imperialism: European, American, and Japanese

  A multi-part project compiled by Thomas Reins that considers the causes and consequences of modern imperialism, using China as a case study, by asking students to analyze a diverse set of primary sources.

• Social Science Laboratories via the Web: Active Learning with Data

  To encourage the use of social science data in history, Russel Van Wyk has compiled a useful guide that shows how to use quantitative analysis of texts, demographic data, an interactive historical atlas module, and Geographic Information Services (GIS) to teach undergraduate students.

• World Civilizations: The Ancient Period to 500 CE

  In David Smith's project, students use world history methods (Big Picture, Diffusion, Syncretism, Comparison, and Common Phenomena) to interpret secondary and primary materials. Primary material is handled through directed reading questions that focus on three classics: the Odyssey, the Ramayana and the Analects.

• Infusing the Pacific World into the US History Survey Courses: Recommended Reading

  In this guide, Allison Frickert-Murashige provides reading recommendations for faculty looking to learn more themselves about the Pacific World before teaching it in their US history courses. She provides readings Bridging Cultures participants used to begin thinking about bringing the Pacific World into their courses, as well as recommended topics where this approach is useful.

• Breakout Session: "Bringing the World in to the US Survey" at the Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses

• Approaching New Models for Texas Survey Courses: Struggles and Surprises

• Thoughts from a Two-Year Faculty Historian after the Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses

• Teaching History in Texas: The New Questions We Should Be Asking

• A Graduate Student’s Perspective of the Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses

• Video Resources for K-12 History Teachers

  Video resources for K-12 history teachers include filmed workshops on teaching subjects such as Westward expansion, the Civil Rights movement and World War I. Other workshops cover using primary sources and technology in the classroom. The playlist also includes several sessions reflecting broadly on K-12 history education.

• Teaching and Learning Video Resources

  Teaching is an essential skill for any historian, and the AHA works hard to produce resources for those teaching at all career stages and at all levels of history. Our Teaching and Learning video library includes workshops on K-12 and undergraduate teaching, reflections from historians on globalizing their US survey courses, and sessions on issues of vital importance to history education such as learning outcomes, dual enrollment, and the transition from high school to college.

• Video Resources on Globalizing the US History Survey

  These video resources are part of the AHA's Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges program, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This professional development program for Community College faculty promotes a global perspective on US history at the country's increasingly diverse two-year institutions. Participants worked to create or revise US history courses with lessons, units, and other work that deepens teaching on the US in the world. Participants speak on the process in these videos.

• Teaching the Slave Trade with Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database (AHA Today)