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
