Teaching Recent Global History

Diana B. Turk is an Associate Professor and Director of Social Studies education at New York University.Laura J. Dull is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Graduate Secondary Social Studies Program at the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz.Robert Cohen is Professor of Social Studies Education and History at New York University.Michael R. Stoll is an Instructor of Education at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri.

“Imagine the best professional development for world history teachers: historians discussing current approaches to history’s big questions; skilled teachers thinking out loud about how to teach those questions; piloted units with activities, documents, assessments, and rubrics. That is what you’ll find between the covers of this book. It is an invaluable resource for world history teachers, historians, and teacher educators.”—Bob Bain, Chair of Secondary Teacher Education, Associate Professor of History and Educational Studies, University of Michigan“Teaching Recent Global History is a profound text that is an essential read for all history teachers. It not only gives specific examples of instructional strategies that are key to engaging young historians in the classroom but in a balanced approach also focuses on critical components of the world history cannon that are foundational for historians’ content knowledge.”—Brendan Alfieri, New Explorations in Science, Technology, and Math, New York City“Teaching Recent Global History offers an imaginative blend of scholarship and pedagogy. It’s rare to find a work that approaches the teaching of modern world history with such respect for classroom teachers’ creativity. This book is a treasury of wisdom about the world—and the classroom.”—Bill Bigelow, Curriculum editor, Rethinking Schools

• CHAPTER ONE – AfricaCHAPTER TWO – AsiaCHAPTER THREE – Latin AmericaCHAPTER FOUR – The Middle EastCHAPTER FIVE – The Soviet Union and Eastern EuropeCHAPTER SIX –War Crimes in the Twentieth CenturyCHAPTER SEVEN – The U.S. in the World