Additional Resources
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A Word from the Associate Director
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It's a busy time of year for the staff of the MAHG program. As the summer approaches, applications to the MAHG degree program continue to arrive from teachers across the nation interested in a contentbased graduate program for social studies teachers. Our professors, administrators, and interns are all hard at work preparing for your arrival in June. Registration for the summer of 2010 is now open and we are already ahead of last year's pace. For the summer of 2010, we are pleased to offer thirty-two separate classes over the course of six week-long sessions. Many of our most popular courses are again on the schedule for this summer, in addition to several courses which have never been offered before. I invite you to take a look at our schedule of courses. You are certain to find topics of both personal and professional interest. Finally, I wish to offer congratulations to the program's most recent graduate, Michael Kathrein of Mansfield, Ohio. In this issue, you will learn more about Michael's work and the impact of the MAHG program on his students. Many more MAHG students are in the process of completing their studies and I look forward to sharing their stories with you in the future. |
Table of Contents
Winter 2010 edition
Winter 2010 edition
- New Graduate Brings Twain to Government Class
Michael Kathrein was bothered when he discovered that one of the classics of American literature, Huckleberry Finn, had been dropped from the syllabus of the American literature class at the school where he works. So he decided to design a project around the work of Twain, using the fiction as a window into American political thought and practice, particularly the relationship between freedom and equality.Read More - Re-Thinking Uncle Tom with Professor Bill Allen
Professor Bill Allen began work on his ground-breaking study of Harriet Beecher Stowe thirty years ago, not long after assigning himself the task of reading a novel he knew had influenced American political thought on slavery and its legacy. Read More - A Scholar-Practitioner Considers "The American Way of War"
This summer the elective "The American Way of War" will be taught from the perspective of the twentieth century, during which enemies using irregular tactics challenged Americans to adapt their response. Dr. Christopher Lamb of the National Defense University (NDU) will join Professor David Tucker in teaching this course. Read More - New Elective Challenges Myths about "The Gilded Age"
A new elective course being offered this summer focuses on the emergence of America as an industrial power. Called "The Age of Enterprise," it will be taught during Session Six by Professors David Beito of the University of Alabama and Burt Folsom of Hillsdale College. Read More - MAHG Graduate Ditches Textbook, Teaches from Original Documents
Many students in the MAHG program report being encouraged, after studying with us, to more often use primary documents as teaching texts. This year Heather Merckens dispensed with the textbook and designed her entire US Government class around primary historical documents. Read More - Recently Published by Our Faculty
Faculty members William Allen, Joshua Dunn, Steven Hayward, and Sidney Milkis have recently published books, while John Marini, Melanie Marlowe, and Natalie Taylor have published essays and chapters. Read More
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