U.S. History in a Global Context

American education is in the process of globalizing student experiences through 21st Century teaching and learning. These educational demands coincide with efforts in the history profession to broaden the context of United States History courses from a national narrative to a global framework. Combined, these two paradigm shifts require support for educators to develop lessons. modify instruction, and nurture skills in students for an increasingly complex and diverse world.

Globalizing U.S. history education, therefore, involves an “opening” of students’ conceptions of the past through expanded content, broader methodology, and units of analysis that go beyond the nation. Preparing history teachers to do this is integral to student success.

The U.S. History in a Global Context project is a dynamic resource that addresses the scarcity of professional development programs dedicated this approach.  Additionally, the resources we have assembled are designed to inspire your creativity and develop your thought leadership as an advocate for this approach to teaching U.S.History.

Have fun exploring and stay in touch.

Yours in global education – Craig Perrier

New Resources Added Each Month!

January and February 2021

• Happy New Year!  We are working on a new website to launch by March!  Stay tuned.

December 2020

• New Resources added to the Civil Rights Module
  • “Our Bondage and Our Freedom”, Frederick Douglass and Black Abolitionists in Scotland. Digital History Project from the University of Edinburgh (2018)
  • Dr. Hasan Jeffries, Ted Talk, “Why We Must Confront the Painful Parts of US History” (2019)
  • The World, “Brazil’s long, strange love affair with the Confederacy ignites racial tension” (2019)

November 2020

• New Resources added to the Civil Rights Module
  • James Baldwin’s “Pin Drop Speech” – video (1965)
  • Cambridge England – “Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?  James Baldwin and William Buckley, Full Debate on Video (1965)
  • Lynn Burnett, “The Global Context of the Civil Rights Movement” (2016)

October 2020

• New resources added to the  Cold War Module
  • Digital Archive: Sino-Soviet Relationship 1949 – 1989
  • Kwame Nkrumah speech: “I Speak of Freedom”  (1961)
  • Fidel Castro speech to the UN denouncing imperialism and colonialism (1960)

September 2020

• New resources added to the  US in a Globalization Context Module: Context and Comparison
  • Democracy and Freedom Indices 2000 – 2019 (this links to a compilation of  five indices that compares the US to other nations in specific areas like press freedom and corruption).

August 2020

• New Resources added to the Civil Rights Module
  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent Throughline podcast 2020
  • Reframing the Movement Teaching Hard History podcast 2020
  • The Protesters Are Upholding America’s Moral Authority Abroad The Atlantic 2020

July 2020

• New resources added to the module Conflict in the British Empire: The American Revolution 1770-1800
  • African American’s During the American Revolution. An overview from the NPS (2008).
  • Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation and formation of the “Ethiopian Regiment”  (1775).
  • “Boston King Chooses Freedom and the Loyalists during the War for Independence” (1798)
  • Lafayette’s Testimonial about revolutionary spy James Armistead Lafayette (1784)

June 2020

• New Resources added to the Civil Rights Module
  • Murals that Memorialize George Floyd around the World (2020)
  • Protests around the globe after the death of George Floyd (2020)
  • US must take ‘serious action’ to halt police killings of unarmed African Americans, High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, (2020)

May 2020

• New resources added to the Myth of The Isolationism  Module
  • Video Footage, US Marines in Nicaragua 1920s.  8 minutes
  • The Fiction of US Isolationism, by Andrew Bacevich (2017)
  • At 83, the last Marine in Nicaragua still has the enemy within his sights (1992)

April 2020

• New resources added to the  US in a Globalization Context module: Focus on Health Care.
  • Bill Gates Ted Talk: The Next Outbreak? We are not ready (2015)
  • World Pharmaceutical Trade Infographic (2018)
  • UN Secretary-General’s remarks to the Security Council on the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020)

March 2020

• New resources added to the  US in a Globalization Context module: Focus on Health Care.
  • The GHS Index is the first comprehensive assessment of global health security capabilities in 195 countries. (2019).
  • Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Ethiopian politician and academic who has been Director-General of the World Health Organization since 2017 Opening Speech, World Health Summit (2019)
  • Putting Coronavirus in Context: A History of Disease and Epidemics – webinar from the National Humanities Center (2020)
  • Global Healthcare Comparison Index (2020)

February 2020

• New resources added to the  Cold War Module  with a focus on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • Telegram From the Embassy in France to the Department of State with President de Gaulle’s insights on the crisis (Oct 22, 1962)
  • Fidel Castro’s letter to Khrushchev (Oct. 26, 1962)
  • President Kennedy’s telephone call with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (Oct. 26, 1962)
    • Macmillan offers a deal to disarm some of their nuclear arsenal.

January 2020

• New Resources added to the Civil Rights Module
  • Article in TIME “Martin Luther King Jr.’s Vision Was More Global Than We Remember. The World Mourned Him Accordingly” (2018)
  • A collection of monument images to Dr. King outside the USA
  • “Beyond Vietnam” Speech by Dr. King  (1967)

December 2019

• New resources added to the module Conflict in the British Empire: The American Revolution 1770-1800
  • Russia’s Role in the American Revolution: Podcast and Transcript (2017)
  • C3 Inquiry: Is Betrayal Always Bad?
  • Japanese Book on the American Revolution (1861)
    • Explanations can be found here

November 2019

• New resources add to the module “The Arab Spring: Democracy, Globalization, and US International Relations”
  • Speech by Jamal Khashoggi, journalist killed Saudi agents (2018).
  • Infographic: Views on Arab Women’s Full Participation in Society (2018)
  • Street Art and the Egyptian Arab Spring (2016)

October 2019

• New Resources added to the Civil Rights Module
  • Teaching Hard History Podcast: Slavery Today  (2019) Historian James Brewer Stewart discusses modern-day slavery happening across the world—and right here in the U.S.—showing educators how to connect the past with the present
  • Ho Chi Minh speech “On Lynching and the KKK” (1924) “What everyone does not perhaps know is that after sixty-five years of so-called emancipation, American Negroes still endure atrocious moral and material sufferings, of which the most cruel and horrible is the custom of lynching….”
  • The African Roots of Dr. King’s Vision (2018) “Ghana tells us that the forces of the universe are on the side of justice… An old order of colonialism, of segregation, discrimination is passing away now.”

September 2019

• New resources added to the Myth of The Isolationism  Module
  • When America Occupied Haiti, podcast (2015)
  • The Polar Bear Expedition: America’s Involvement in Russia’s Civil War, video (2017)
  • Imagining Haiti: Representations of Haiti in the American Press during the U.S. Occupation,
    1915-1934, paper (2011)

August 2019

• New Resources added to the Civil Rights Module:
  • W.E.B. DuBois, “An Appeal to the World : A Statement of Denial of Human Rights to Minorities in the Case of citizens of Negro Descent in the United States of America and an Appeal to the United Nations for Redress.” (1947)
  • Ralph J. Bunche, Acting United Nations Mediator for Palestine, commencement address given at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee (1949)
  • We Charge Genocide: The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief From a Crime of The United States Government Against the Negro People (1951)

July 2019

• New DECLARATIONS of INDEPENDENCE resources added to the  Cold War Module
  • Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945).
  • Indonesia’s Declaration of Independence (1945)
  • Israel’s Declaration of Independence (1948)
  • Rhodesia’s Declaration of Independence (1965)
  • Bangladeshi Declaration of Independence (1971)

June 2019

• New Resources added to the Civil Rights Module:
  • Article on James Baldwin in Turkey (includes primary sources of Baldwin in the 1960s) (2017)
  • Article on Malcolm X and Fidel Castro meeting in New Your City in 1960 (includes primary sources). (2016)
  • Ho Chi Minh speech (excerpts) on lynching in the United States (1924).

May 2019

• New resources added to the  Cold War Module
  • The Angolan Civil War 1975 – 2002: “The Angolan civil war may have been considered a Cold War proxy war by the rest of the world, but Pearce’s study finds few ordinary Angolans cared about that ideological divide. “
  • National Security Meeting Minutes, June 1975. President Ford is briefed on the situation in Angola and requests possible options that the US could pursue to be made ready.
  • Memo of Conversation between the White House and China about Angola, December 1975. The Chinese emphasize that South Africa must exit the conflict if there is to be any chance of rallying other African states to oppose Neto.

April 2019

• New resources about global walls added to the US in a Globalization Context module
  • This American Life: Walls (podcast – 2016)
  • Raising Barriers:  A 3 Part Series on Contemporary Border Walls (2016)
  • Built to Separate: A Photo Story of Border Walls (2019)

March 2019

• New resources add to the module “The Arab Spring: Democracy, Globalization, and US International Relations”
  • The Arab Spring: Country by Country (2013)
  • North American Businesses Hurt Most by Arab Spring (2012)
  • The Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech by Tawakkol Karman  (2011)

February 2019

• New 2019 resources  Added to the Library !
  • Throughline: NPR Podcast (Various topics typically from a global context)
  •  Book Review – “How to Hide an Empire”
  • “The New Americanism: Why a Nation needs a National Story”

January 2019 (Happy New Year)

• New resources added to the Myth of The Isolationism  Module
  • Chase Madar article. Ostrich America (2010)
  • Frontline Documentary: Firestone and the Warlord (2014)
  • “Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World”: The Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (1920)

December 2018

• New resources added to the module US in a Globalization Context module:
  • Chicago Council on Global Affairs Report: America Engaged (2018)
  • Khan Academy – Globalization Resource (2018)
  • Mr. Sebastian Kurz, Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs for Austria Speech at the United Nations (2016 – Video, Audio, and Translation)
  • President Trump’s “America First” speech at the United Nations (2018 – text and video)

November 2018

• New resources added to the module Conflict in the British Empire: The American Revolution 1770-1800
  • Mohawk Chief Joseph Brant letter to British Secretary of State Lord George Germain (1776)
  • Short bio of Mohawk Chief Thayendanegea, Native History: Chief Joseph Brant Walked in Two Worlds (2013)
  • Overview of Native Americans during the American Revolution (2018)

October 2018

• New resources add to the module “The Arab Spring: Democracy, Globalization, and US International Relations”
  • Foreign Policy Association series of short videos on the Arab Spring from the series “Great Decisions”
  • Collection of Feminist Street Art in Egypt

September 2018

• New Resources added to the Civil Rights Module:
  • Nelson Mandela’s speech in Havana celebrating Cuba’s role in ending Apartheid (1991)
  • For All the World to See: Online Exhibit explores the historic role of visual culture in shaping, influencing, and transforming the fight for racial equality and justice in the United States from the late-1940s to the mid-1970s (2010)
  • President Obama’s Speech At The Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture (2018)

August 2018

• New Resources added to the Civil Rights Module:
  • Deni, Viktor, “The Democracy of Mr. Lynch” (1930).
  • Moor, Dmitri, “Freedom to the prisoners of Scottsboro!” (1932).
  • Soviet poster  ‘Under capitalism’ and ‘Under socialism’ (1948).

July 2018

• NEW MODULE COMPLETED! –  Check out our new module “The Arab Spring: Democracy, Globalization, and US International Relations” sponsored by the Qatar Foundation International.  It contains the following items:
  • Topic Overview and Essential Questions
  • Teacher Designed Activities
  • Unique Scholar Presentation/Screencast
  • Dozens of Primary and Secondary Sources

June 2018

• Multiple Resources Added to the Module Conflict in the British Empire: The American Revolution 1770-1800
  • New Smithsonian Exhibit Opens: The American Revolution: A World War (2018)
  • Bernardo de Galvez’s contribution to the American Revolution (2017)
  • Collection in Dutch Museum: Memory of the Netherlands – the Atlantic World 
  • USA Treaty of Alliance with France (1778)
• New Interactive Map added: Native Land

May 2018

• Multiple Primary Resources Added to the Cold War Module
  • Speech by Mao Tse-tung “The People Of Asia, Africa And Latin America Should Unite And Drive American Imperialism Back To Where It Came From” (1959)
  • Speech by Mao Tse-tung “American Imperialism Is Closely Surrounded By The Peoples Of The World” (1964)
  • Shah of Iran’s final speech (1968)

April 2018

• Multiple Resources Added to the Module Conflict in the British Empire: The American Revolution 1770-1800
  • Scholar Presentation: The British Empire and the Causes of the American Revolution presented by Professor Andrew O’Shaughnessy (2016)
  • Library of Congress: British Prints and Cartoons Collections (over 150 resources!)
  • 15 Minute History Podcast: The American Revolution in Global Context
    • Part 1 (2013)
    • Part 2 (2013)

March 2018

• 3 Primary Sources added to the Myth of The Isolationism  Module
  • Newspaper accounts of US Marines in the Dominican Republic (1922)
  • Political cartoon of US arbitration of treaty between Peru and Chile (1922)
  • President Coolidge Speech in Cuba, 1928

February 2018

• NEW MODULE –  Check out our new module “The Arab Spring: Democracy, Globalization, and US International Relations” sponsored by the Qatar Foundation International.  It is currently under construction.  Stay tuned.

January 2018

• 1 New Article was Added to the  US in a Globalization Context module: from the Globalist
• 1 New Inforgraphic and Article to the US in a Globalization Context module:   about views of globalization from Business Insider.

December 2017

• 1 New Video from the Atlantic You Tube Channel Added to the module Conflict in the British Empire: The American Revolution 1770-1800

November 2017

• 1 New Video from the Atlantic You Tube Channel Added to the module  Civil Rights Module
• 1 New Article from the Smithsonian to the module Cold War Module

October 2017

• 1 Article added to the module US in a Globalization Context module: NY Times Editorial “Americas’s Forever War”

September 2017

• New Module Created! Conflict in the British Empire: The American Revolution 1770-1800

August 2017

• 2 Articles added to the Myth of The Isolationism  Module
  • Finding the King’s Fortune! California Discovers Oil in Saudi Arabia
  • Visual History of Saudi Aramco 1930s

July 2017

• 7 Global “Meeting of the Minds” lessons added to the lessons section!

June 2017

• New Resources added to the Library Resources
  • 1994 Martha Nussbaum, “Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism” 
  • 1997 Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Cosmopolitan Patriots”

May 2017

• New Resources added to the Civil Rights Module:
  • 3 Photos – Dr. Martin Luther King at the Berlin Wall (1964)
  • Speech – Dr. Martin Luther King’s sermon in East Berlin (1964)

April 2017

• New Conference Webinar added to the US in a Globalization Context module
  • The US in the Eyes of the Rest of the World (2017)

March 2017

• New Videos added to the Library Resources
  •  Dr. Maria Montoya introducing the new textbook, Global Americans.
  •  Introducing the authors of the textbook Great Americans.

February 2017

• New Video Resources added to the Civil Rights Module: Dr. King’s “Massey Lectures: Conscience and the War in Vietnam” delivered in Canada 1967.
  • Part 1 Massey Lectures 1967 – Conscience and the War in Vietnam
  • Part 2 Massey Lectures 1967 – Conscience and the War in Vietnam
  • Part 3 Massey Lectures 1967 – Conscience and the War in Vietnam
  • Part 4 Massey Lectures 1967 – Conscience and the War in Vietnam

January 2017

• New Video Resources added to the Civil Rights Module: Dr. King’s “Massey Lectures: Conscience for Change” delivered in Canada 1967.
  • Part 1 Massey Lecture 1967 – Conscience for Change
  • Part 2 Massey Lecture 1967 – Conscience for Change
  • Part 3 Massey Lecture 1967 – Conscience for Change

December 2016

• New C3 Inquiries added!
  • 1 Added to the Cold War Module
  • 1 Added to the Globalization Module
  • 1 Added to the International Organizations Module
• New Podcast
  • 1 Added to the Globalization Module – Nigerian Civil War and the Origins of US Humanitarianism

November 2016

• 2 Original Interactive Thinglink visuals added under Comparative and Transnational approach.
  • US Freedom of Press – Comparative
  • The Globalized US Military Footprint – Transnational
• 2 Video Collection from the Choices Program linked in the Civil Rights Module.

October 2016

• 3 Web tools added to the module, US in a Globalization Context module:  “If I were at home”, “Global Terrorism Database” , and “Freedom House” reports and rankings.
• 1 Article added to the Multi-National Companies and International Organization module on FARC and world peace.

September 2016

• 3 Podcasts Added to the Library from the website Historical Thinking addressing the concept of history, historical thinking, and global citizenship.
• 2 sources on US intervention in the Dominican Republic added to to the The Isolationism  Module

August 2016

• 1 Online Book Added to the Library  Human and Citizens Rights in a Globalized World (2016) by Magdalena Gawin Barbara, Markiewicz Agnieszka, and Nogal Rafał Wonicki
• 2 Articles Added to the Library , Deconstructing ‘Uncle Tom’ Abroad: The Case of an American President by Ana Stevenson  and “Placing the American Revolution in a Global Perspective” by Steven Pincus.
• 1 Radio Broadcast added to the module, US in a Globalization Context module:  How the World Views the U.S. Presidential Election.

July 2016

• New Section Added – Interactive Visuals!  – with 3 visuals on:
  • The Enlightenment and U.S. Independence
  • The U.S.Civil War
  • Social and Political Music in the Atlantic World

June 2016

• 1 Primary Source Added to Cold War Module
• 1 Data Analysis Tool Added to Primary Sources in the Globalization Module
• 1 Primary Source Added to Civil Rights Module
• 1 Primary Source Added to the Multi-national Companies Module

May 2016

• 1 Supplemental Powerpoint Presentation added to the The Isolationism  Module
• 1 C-SPAN Video Added to the Cold War Module
• 1 Podcast Added to Civil Rights Module
• 1 Podcast Added on Terrorism added to US and Globalization Module

 

April 2016:

• 2 Articles added to Interwar Isolationism and Civil Rights modules
• 2 Political Cartoons added to Cold War Module