Recent Seminars

Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis High School Teacher's Institute

Past Seminars

2012-2013 Seminars

 From Overseas Expansion to Global Empire, 1450-1900 Michael Adas

Why We See What We See on Television Alex Magoun

Integrating Women’s History into U.S. History Michele Rotunda

American Families: From the Puritans to the Present Leslie Fishbein

Gender, Art, and Society in the Middle East and North Africa Faculty of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Nuclear Technologies in American and World History Susan Schrepfer

The History and Culture of Asians/Asian Americans in the U.S. Allan Punzalan Isaac

A Brief History of Time….. Keeping Mike Geselowitz & John Vardalas

What is Africa to Me? Abena P.A. Busia

Japanese American Internment: Perspectives on Trans-Pacific Relations, Citizenship, and Labor Kayo Denda & Susan Schrepfer

The Early Republic 1787-1824: Political, Cultural, and Legal Changes Jonathan Lurie & Maxine Lurie

The New Deal and the Social Safety Net, 1929-Present Jennifer Mittlestadt

American Industrialization: The New Jersey Experience Paul Israel

 

2013-2014 Seminars

 Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War Louis Masur

Current Democratic Waves in the Middle East and North Africa Fakhri Haghani

Teaching Bram Stoker’s Dracula Stephen Reinert

The Centrality of Graphic Illustrations for Teaching World History Michael Adas

The Culture of the 1960’s Leslie Fishbein

Ceramics and Society in Global History Michael N. Geselowitz & John Vardalas

North America’s Spanish and Mexican Frontiers, 1500-1850 Susan Schrepfer

The Literature and Legal History of Asians/Asian Americans in the U.S. Allan Punzalan Isaac

World War II and the Internment of Japanese Americans Kayo Denda & Susan Schrepfer

The New Deal and the Social Safety Net, 1929-Present Jennifer Mittelstadt

Maritime History as World History: The Interplay of Technology and Society John Vardalas

American Industrialization: The New Jersey Experience Pauld Israel

Contemporary Events in Afghanistan in Historical Perspective Robert Nichols

Gilded Age New Jersey in a National Context Jonathan Lurie & Maxine N.Lurie

 

2014-2015 Seminars

 World War I and the Global History of the 20th Century Michael Adas

The “Great Patriotic War” of the Soviet Union (1941-1945): Myth and Realities Jochen Hellbeck

Telecommunications in American Society 1844-1984 Sheldon Hochheiser

Memoir and Memory: Myth and Reality Leslie Fishbeing

Oral History: Great Depression, WWII and the Cold War Shaun Illingworth

Teaching the French Revolution Jennifer Jones

Women in the American Revolution Carol Berkin

Teaching Major Themes in African and Global History Using Life Stories and Small Places Allen Howard

Maritime History as World History: The Interplay of Technology and Society(II) John Vardalas

Inventing America: Thomas Edison and the History of Technology and Industry Paul Israel

Approaches to Teaching about War in American History Jonathan Lurie & Maxine N. Lurie

Teaching the US Occupation of Postwar Japan: The Oliver L. Austin Photographic Collection Digital Archive Kurt Piehler

 

2015-2016 Seminars

 Teaching the Past: Anglo-Saxon Literature from Beowful to the Battle of Maldon Stacy S. Klein

Slave Culture and Resistance in History and Memory Walter Rucker

Shakespeare and Performance: Teaching and Reading Emily Bartels

The Ottoman World Empire Tuna Artun

Health, Culture, and Society Leslie Fishbein

Lincoln and The Civil War Louis Masur

The Black Death Leah DeVun

America in the Great War Jennifer Keene

The Crusades : What Were They? Stephen Reinert

Emperors, Gladiators, and Vestal Virgins Sarolta Takacs

Imperialism and Its Global Impact Michael Adas

History of the 1980s Jennifer Mittelstadt

Teaching American History Through Images Jonathan Lurie & Maxine N. Lurie

 

2016-2017Seminars

 New Jersey’s Native American History Camilla Townsend

What was “the Cold War?” David S. Foglesong

What is Africa to Me? Abena P.A. Busia

The Culture of the 1960s Leslie Fishbein

Slavery, Immigration, and Public Memory in New York City Anthony di Battista

Globalizing the History of Science James Delbourgo

The Vietnam War and the Decades it Dominated Michael Adas

History of Medical Ethics: Tuskegee and its Aftermath Johanna Schoen

Religion and World War II Kurt Piehler

New Approaches to Tudor and Stuart History: The Britannic Isles C. 1500-1720 Alastair Bellany

 

2017-2018 Seminars

 The Contemporary Relevance of Hannah Arendt Kathleen A. Kremins

Famous Trials of the Jazz Age: Sacco and Vanzetti, Leopold and Loeb, and Scopes Paul Clemens

Travels with Chaucer: Teaching The Canterbury Tales, from Gender to Anti-Judaism Stacy S. Klein

American Cultures of Adolescence Leslie Fishbein

From the Cold War to “the New Cold War”: Understanding American-Russian Relations David Foglesong

Teaching World and African History from a Very Small Place Allen Howard

Slavery and History: The Material of Black Lives and How We Interpret the Past Marisa Fuentes

Fighting for Justice in the Age of the Atom Shaun Illingworth

Science, Technology, and Capitalism in the Long Gilded Age Jamie Pietruska

Inventing America: Thomas Edison and the History of Technology and Industry Paul Israel

The Great War and America’s Rise to Global Power Michael Adas

Mexico Since World War II: Miracle or Mess Mark Wasserman