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America on the World Stage Modules

During the 2011-12 school year, America on the World Stage Teaching American History grant will be featuring Modules 7 though 9. All participants will receive a $150 stipend along with a copy of the book America on the World Stage. For more information on eligibility, visit the Teacher Opportunities page. Click here to register for a Module Event.

Below are listed Modules 7 through 9. To view Modules 1-3, click here. To view Modules 4-6, click here.

collapse : Module 7: Resources, Opportunity, and Enterprise - Industrialization and Urbanization
Dr. Jim MartenDr. 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
Thursday, September 29, 2011 6:00 PM

Lecture PowerPoint Presentation

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Dr. Kathleen DaltonDr. 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
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 6:00 PM

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collapse : Module 8: The Promises and Responsibilities of Citizenship - Immigration and Citizenship
Dr. Matthew JacobsonDr. Matthew Jacobson
Yale University

Race, Immigration, and U.S. Citizenship
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 6:00 PM

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Lecture Resources

Dr. Suzanne Sinke
Florida State University

Crossing Borders: Globalizing U.S. History through Migration
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 6:00 PM

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collapse : Module 9: Nation in Conflict - Nations at War
Dr. Michael NeibergDr. Michael Neiberg
US Army War College

Fresh Approaches to Understanding and Teaching World War I
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 6:00 PM

Dr. Jim MadisonDr. Jim Madison
Indiana University

Teaching World War II with Primary Sources
Tuesday, March 06, 2012 6:00 PM