...Jonathan Sadowsky Copyright © 1999 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1999 ”The Great Patients:” Heroes and Anti-heroes in a Medical History Course Jonathan Sadowsky “Can’t we have heroes anymore?” a student...

...Ira Shor 1977 84 TEACHING HOW TO LEARN: CONCEPTUAL METHODS FROM A "UTOPIA" COURSE Ira Shor There is a specter haunting the classrooms of America. From coast to coast...

...Mark Naison 1975 92 Course Syllabus Afro-American History 1512-1865 Mark Naison Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y. Course Description: This course is designed to provide a general survey of the Afro-American experience from the origins of the slave trade to the end...

...Elizabeth Fee; Sylvia Gillett; Linda Shopes; Linda Zeidman 1984 Baltimore by Bus: Steering a New Course through the City’s History Elizabeth Fee, Sylvia Gillett, Linda Shopes, Linda Zeidman In October, 1982...

...Lynette Cruz Copyright © 1999 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1999 Rethinking the United States in ”Paradise”: A Course For Teachers July 20-31 1998 Lynette Cruz Background ”This year marks...

... Course Gerald Shenk and David Takacs Our primary goal as educators is to help students become ethical, effective, his- torically informed, self-aware members of their chosen communities. Inspired by the teachings of Paolo Freire, we have...

... HISTORY “Free at Last” A Course on the Global Antiapartheid Movement Lauren Kientz Anderson My e-­mail pinged and I received the following report from a student: I was settling into my desk and ready to begin class when I realized I did not have something of utmost importance...

...Merry Wiesner-Hanks 2005 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2005 TEACHING RADICAL HISTORY Women’s History and World History Courses Merry Wiesner-Hanks I would like to start with a utopian vision for a historian of women. Imagine a world in which, as one...

... in their absence increased exposure to hurricanes, the relocation of local populations, and radical changes in the daily lives of local peoples. This essay explores the challenges and opportunities associated with teaching a course on the oil spill in which equal weight is given both to ecological concerns...

...Holly Blake; Melissa Ooten This article explores the course objectives, pedagogy, and texts/assignments of the course “Gender, Race and Activism.” Learning about the historical traditions of social movements is critical for today's students. They need social justice role models in order...

...Magid Shihade In this essay, I discuss my experience of teaching a course on 9/11 at several universities in the United States and at one in Pakistan. The essay emphasizes the importance of teaching this course to critically engage students with policies that have followed the event and with how...

...Leila J. Rupp This essay describes a graduate reading course in women's studies I taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara in the spring of 2003 to contribute to a consideration of teaching about women's movements, human rights, and transnationalism. My goal in the course...

... and scholarly approaches to oral history and ethnography. The course engaged these methods, requiring students to conduct oral histories and transform those interviews into performance monologues. Informed by the role of Chicana/o teatro in the social protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the course...

...Simon R. Doubleday This article reflects on the experience of teaching an online summer course that focused on rethinking history, in the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake of January 2010, as an avenue for critical reflection about the present. Tracing the students' responses to course readings...

...Jennifer Tyburczy This article elaborates on the themes and practices mobilized in the course Exhibiting Sexualities. The class begins with the premise that all museums are already sex museums and examines the museum context as a pivotal and highly influential site in the construction of modern...

... not account for the disproportionate effects of the pandemic on racial minorities and global South countries. In this teaching essay, the author describes how his course on the history of HIV/AIDS takes a global approach to highlight that the AIDS crisis is not over. Starting with histories of HIV/AIDS...

.... It proceeds to explain how the author subsequently revised the course to deepen students' engagement with the subject matter, as well as to heighten their confrontation with the realities of animal suffering in the past and present. The essay concludes by weighing some of the benefits and disadvantages...

...Antoinette Burton; Jean Allman This essay discusses the syllabus for “Gender and Colonialism,” a graduate seminar we have offered at the University of Illinois, both jointly and individually, over the course of the past six years. We recount its conception and execution as a feminist collaborative...

... organizations to make transnational linkages with social-justice movements globally. This essay describes a course taught at the University of Michigan, “Human Rights and Social-Justice Organizing in the United States,” which focused on case studies of social-justice organizations in the United States...

...Peter Alegi; Amy Bass; Adrian Burgos, Jr.; Brenda Elsey; Martha Saavedra University courses on sport and society have increased exponentially over the past decade, motored by student interest and the acceptance of cultural studies in the academy. This online forum, organized and coordinated...