Global Learning for Educators webinars are offered free twice monthly, September 2012 - May 2013. Please visit asiasociety.org/webinars for details and registration. National History Day and The National Council for History Education present their approaches to internationalizing U.S. History. Both organizations are creating resources to be used by teachers to contextualize U.S. History – from the Revolutionary War to the Cold War. We will discuss the approaches, the resources, and the implications for today’s teachers. Presenters: Noralee Frankel, consultant with National History Day Craig Perrier, High School Social Studies Specialist, Fairfax County Public Schools Respondent: Dale Steiner, professor of History, California State University, Chico

1. Moderators
Jennifer Manise Heather Singmaster
Longview Foundation Asia Society
Integrating International Perspectives into
U.S. History – Resources for the
Challenges Facing Today’s Teacher

2. Integrating International Perspectives into U.S. History –
Resources for the Challenges Facing Today’s Teacher
#globalushistory
@longviewglobal
@nationalhistory

3. Integrating International Perspectives into U.S. History –
Resources for the Challenges Facing Today’s Teacher
Craig Perrier
High School Social Studies
Specialist
Fairfax County Public
Schools
Fairfax, VA
Noralee Frankel
Consultant
National History Day
Dale Steiner
Professor, History
California State University
Chico

4. Integrating International Perspectives into U.S. History –
Resources for the Challenges Facing Today’s Teacher
Noralee Frankel
Consultant
National History Day

5. • National History Day is a highly regarded
academic program for middle school and
secondary school students
• Each year students, encouraged by
thousands of teachers nationwide
participate in the National History Day
contest.
What is National History Day?

6. • In addition to discovering the exciting world of the
past, National History Day also helps students
develop the following attributes that are critical for
future success:
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Oral and written communication and presentation skills
• Self-esteem and confidence
• A sense of responsibility for and involvement in the
democratic process

7. U.S. History in Global Perspective
Co-edited by Mark Johnson,
history teacher at Concordia
International School in
Shanghai and NHD affiliate
coordinator for Asia and
Noralee Frankel,
Independent Historian

8. • Teaching and Learning for the Real World
NHD Embodies and Fosters 21st Century Skills and
Common Core State Standards
Joan Ruddiman, Thomas R. Grover Middle School
• Globalizing National History Day’s Annual
Themes
Noralee Frankel
• The Global American Revolution
Eliga Gould, University of New Hampshire

9. • Land Labor and Loss
The role of indigenous land rights in Nineteenth
century Nation-State formation in the United
States of America, Australia and India
Whitney Howarth, Plymouth State University
• All the People
Epidemic Diseases in the U.S. and the World
George Dehner, Wichita State University
• The American Civil War
Ryan Campbell
British International School, Jakarta

10. • Becoming Chinese in America
Giving Voice to the Chinese in the American West
Mark Johnson, Concordia International School Shanghai
• Salem as a Global Village
Industrialization, Deindustrialization, and
Immigration in a New England City
Aviva Chomsky, Salem State University
• The Civil Rights Movement in
Global Perspective
Kevin Gaines, University of Michigan

11. Integrating International Perspectives into U.S. History –
Resources for the Challenges Facing Today’s Teacher
Craig Perrier
Social Studies Specialist
Fairfax County Public Schools
Consultant
National Council for History Education
http://cperrier.edublogs.org

12. Globalizing the US History Survey
“History education “at its best is critical, exciting, thought-provoking, frustratingly ambiguous
and uncertain. It is the reflective element of the collective mind.” Richard Overy
Theory and
Background
Paradigm
Shift
NCHE
Project

13. Theory and Background
• 1916 “Transnational History” - Randolph Bourne
• 2000 La Pietra Report - OAH
• 2006 The New Global History - Bruce Mazlish
• 2006 A Nation Among Nations - Thomas Bender
• 2007 Transnational Nation - Ian Tyrrell
“The nation-state has not been able to exhaust the identifications of the
individual…Modern nation-states have to confront or engage with other
historical representations of community.”
Prasenjit Duara in Rescuing History from the Nation

14. Theory and Background
Global
• History without a
center
• A web of networks and
systems
• Example – Cold War
Narrative
Transnation
al
• Nodes of actors located
across regions
• National histories don’t
end at the border
• Example –
Multinational
Organization

15. Paradigm Shift
• Demands of Contemporary Education
• Instructional Change
• Not an “add on” in Teaching
• Way of Knowing: Context and Contingency
• Addresses Binary Thought, the Marginalized,
Agency, and Othering
“We should hold under suspicion any word that describes a chunk of the story
while claiming universal relevance. Words such as progress, development,
modernity, nation-state, and globalization.”
Michel-Rolph Trouillot in Global Transformations

16. Paradigm Shift

17. NCHE Project:
Globalizing the US History
Survey
• Overview of Project
– Global… (ization, Awareness, Competencies, Intelligence
– Target Audience
– Professional Development
– Open Source
– Theory and Utility
– Longevity
“Recent discussions of globalization . . . invite more complex
understandings of the American nation's relation to a world that is at
once self-consciously global and highly pluralized.”
La Pietra Report

18. NCHE Project:
Globalizing the US History Survey
• Five module topics
1. Interwar U.S. Foreign Policy: The Myth of U.S. Isolationism 1920-
1940
2. Beyond a Bipolar Cold War: Teaching Global Geo-Politics 1945-
1973
3. Civil Rights are Human Rights: Global Contexts of Equality in the
20th Century
4. Multi-National Companies and International Organizations in US
History
5. Situating the U.S. in Globalization Paradigms 1980-2012
• Features
- Badges - Netvibes Page
- Social Media - Collaborative Timeline
- History Thinking Skills - Historian Presentations

19. Conclusion “Over time and cultures, the most robust and most effective
form of communication is the creation of a powerful
narrative.”
Howard Gardner

20. Integrating International Perspectives into U.S. History –
Resources for the Challenges Facing Today’s Teacher
Dale Steiner
Professor, History
California State University Chico
Chair, Board of Trustees
National Council for History Education

21. Integrating International Perspectives into U.S. History –
Resources for the Challenges Facing Today’s Teacher
Resources
http://asiasociety.org/education/resources-schools/term
http://www.nche.net/home
http://www.nhd.org/
http://www.longviewfdn.org/66/resources.html
http://cperrier.edublogs.org

22. Integrating International Perspectives into U.S. History –
Resources for the Challenges Facing Today’s Teacher
Questions
from the
Audience

23. Integrating International Perspectives into U.S. History –
Resources for the Challenges Facing Today’s Teacher
Next Webinar from the States
Network on International
Education in the Schools
September/October 2013

24. Connecting Global Competence to Teacher Preparation