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...Jon Wiener Copyright © 1996 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1996 FOR THE RECORD McNamara, Vietnam, and Student Protest Jon Wiener In the debate over Robert McNamara’s bestselling mea culpa...

...Naomi Rogers 2001 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2001 02-RHR 80 Rogers.btw 5/15/01 5:20 PM Page 5 “Caution: The AMA May Be Dangerous to Your Health”: The Student Health Organizations (SHO) and American Medicine...

...Alicia del Campo The 2011 student movement radically challenged the Chilean political process by exposing the hidden legacy of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and demanding a complete restructuring of its neoliberal reforms. The demonstrators contended that these so-called reforms transformed...

...Marisol LeBrón This article examines the practice of “ carpeteo ,” or politicized police surveillance and targeted harassment, during the 2010 and 2011 student strikes at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR). LeBrón argues that police and security forces engaged in tactics that deeply resonated...

...David Nasaw Copyright © 1996 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1996 On Teaching U.S. Cultural History to Graduate Students David Nasaw The most difficult task for the instructor in graduate cultural history courses...

...Heather Vrana Escalation of state violence against Guatemala City's University of San Carlos (USAC) in the late 1970s compelled students to rework the politics of death. In this essay, the commemorative texts and funeral photographs of three student leaders — Mario López Larrave, Oliverio Castañeda...

... Harvard protege, Henry Kissinger. (In Compromised Campus, Sigmund Diamond recalls that young Henry was best know for opening fellow graduate students' mail and send- ing contents to the FBI. But this is another story-r is it?) Rh4N had moments, as many commentators have noted, when he seemed...

...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...

... their participation in public scholarship with trends that promote neoliberal models of university finance and governance, which often put the university at odds with the public outside and inside its walls? In the fall of 2005, a group of history and American Studies PhD students at the University of Minnesota...

...Jesse Hingson Since 2004, I have used various document sets from the National Security Archive (NSA) to teach students about modern Latin American history at Georgia College and State University, a medium-sized public liberal arts university in central Georgia. The NSA has the largest non...

... 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...

...Sarah Jones Abstract This article outlines how an in-depth engagement with visual archives has transformed the author’s pedagogical practice. It argues that working with visual sources like photographs and illustrations offers students important opportunities to develop key academic skills...

...Gilda L. Ochoa; Daniela Pineda While teaching about race/ethnicity and class from a critical pedagogical standpoint, not only might we encounter student resistance to learning about systems of domination, but we should also be aware of the ways that power, privilege, and exclusion in the larger...

... for content delivery and for sparking discussions. Also used were “passbooks” to simulate, though not re-create, the way the apartheid regime used identification books to oppress black South Africans. Two of the most challenging discussions for the students were the idea of the proper use of international...

... and was involved with the student group Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o de Aztlán (Chicana/o Student Movement of Aztlán—MEChA), the United Farm Workers (UFW), and the women's group Chicana Consciousness. Talamante's border crossings—between Mexico and the United States and across the Americas, from agricultural...

...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...

...Sigrid Schmalzer The author relates her experience teaching an undergraduate seminar on the 1970s–1980s movement Science for the People (SftP). She taught the seminar in conjunction with a three-day conference that brought together students, scholars in science and technology studies, and former...

..., as students tend to find it overwhelming, especially in the post-2016-election era. In this short essay, I consider how best to teach students to read a novel that, though originally intended as a satirical take on the political situation of the United States and the world in the interwar period, has now...

... students to become skeptical of existing racial stories and expose their disempowering mechanisms and effects by envisioning racial storytelling as a subject of historical analysis. Educators can also use racial storytelling as a critical method for historical reconstruction, guiding students in composing...